When someone mocks you for being a nurse

[fraydar]

I just had a really ****** night where I was mocked for going to school to be a nurse. I can't explain how frustrated and ******* ****** off I get when people mock me for my decision to be a nurse and make a positive difference in people's lives. I feel like so many people think nurses just put band aides on people's fingers. I hate this and just needed somewhere to vent, people are idiots, if there weren't nurses the healthcare system would collapse faster than a ******* popped balloon.

[jchilds]

Who cares what someone else thinks. I don't have anything to prove to anyone, including myself. I only care about how I appear in the eyes of my God, my wife, and my children.

[Bobmo88]

I usually am praised for wanting to go into nursing. I've had surgeons tell me that I am smarter than my pre-med colleagues for pursuing nursing and when I used to work in auto parts customers were always impressed as well. I can't recall being made fun of for wanting to go into nursing but if I did I'd laugh and say "It pays really well and I work with mostly women and besides I don't really care what you think" :)

[Eterrybe]

Me and buddy are in the nursing program and get bugged constantly by people.....yet here, they are working at mcdonalds and we are the ones that get laughed at :/

[ptmikeyt]

Honestly I went from being a full time personal trainer going into nursing school I felt the same critique, but if you let anyone get to you to the point you let it affect you... You are going to let it bring you dow... Use it as fuel and smile and go foward... Laugh with them, because you know in your heart this I something you want as that is all that matters. BOOM!

[sacwebb]

I enjoyed this post! I work in peds as an RN and am starting a DNP PNP program soon. I have been called gay, queer, baby molester, pedophile and so on. Means nothing to me and you just have to let it go every time. I'm the one of my friends that has a job, could buy a new car, saving for my future while my friends go back to school cuz they can't find work. I never brag about my money, success, or gorgeous wife (who was attracted to me for being a peds nurse) I just look past it knowing that I make a difference day in and day out for the little people I see. I'm proud to be a nurse! It gets frustrating at times but I just remember that I am second to my patients always, and they are all that matters.

[nyrn310]

lol i get the occasional focker jokes, but it's all good. TBH i dont think i want to be an RN for more than 5 years. It's just a stepping stone for me.

[ColoradoRocky]

lol i get the occasional focker jokes, but it's all good. TBH i dont think i want to be an RN for more than 5 years. It's just a stepping stone for me.

Stepping stone to where?

[Kiwiguy]

I think one of the worst things you can do is get offended when people poke fun at our chosen profession. Instead i have found through trial and error that a humorous response is often the best way to go, one of those one liner responses you can easily find on google is a safe bet. Ive found that if you match their mocking with a joke about it they quickly stop, while if you get offended it only encourages them to continue as they see that their comments have hit a nerve.

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

When I started nursing school, my sister wanted me to quit and go to work with her hubby in the copier factory, and I'd get jokes about wearing a dress.

The factory is long gone, I've been gainfully employed for but a few weeks, and I'm better off financially than those who liked to tease.

Who's laughing now?

[plumbtrician]

I'm a male nursing student. I am mocking you right now!

Sucka! Thicken that skin!

[Coupeflyer]

This is what I say when mocked: "When you say that, you really show how ignorant you are on the subject, and if you wan't to sound informed I would be glad to take the time to explain it to you". ';-})>

[Music in My Heart]

I earn more than I did as an engineer at the same phase of my career and I get paid handsomely for my overtime as opposed to donating it as I did during my engineering career.

There are at least 20 times more nursing jobs around here than there are engineering jobs... no more relocating for work.

Nursing is a much more stable job than is engineering.

As a nurse, I leave the job behind the second I walk out; as an engineer, it was always with me and I was always thinking about how to get ahead of schedule and make up the budget variances.

I'm already married but were I not... yep, lots and lots of ladies around.

It's a good job... if you can get a good job.