Who needs a bigger pat on the back?

[bossman]

Really who needs a bigger pat on the back for doing their job? Who posts more about how much they matter and makes a bigger difference? Nurses or teachers?

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

never seen either of them post about how hard they work. Must be that they have a Cush job unlike us nurses that work 9 12's per week.

How would you know? You a member of every engineering and professional chemist message board? Or you just basing that on how many engineers and chemists post on AN?

[Graduatenurse14]

I taught K-12 then adults for many years before becoming a nurse. That's a tough question to answer! I have classroom teachers and bedside nurses in mind as that's all I've experienced in teaching and nursing and they are very different in many ways but also very similar.

Both are high responsibility but low authority jobs that can be very thankless much of the time and if your heart isn't in them they can be especially brutal. Satisfaction in both depends a lot on where you work, the population you're dealing with, administration and funding.

For the record:

I have pure hatred for "What are the three best things about being a teacher? June, July and August" but it can't touch my visceral reaction to "Be nice to your nurse since we choose your catheter and IV needles." Neither are true nor amusing, in my opinion.

[roser13, ASN, RN]

Wish we would stop feeding the troll/trawler/whatever.

[SmilingBluEyes]

Who cares??

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

I need a pat on the back. I am amazing.

pat-pat

[SmilingBluEyes]

Just be sure that pat isn't a knife.

[BeenThere2012, ASN, RN]

Not an "either or" question for me. I have always felt that Nurses, Teachers and Social Workers work harder than most and relatively speaking, make the least amount of money in compensation for all they go through and all they are responsible to do.

[MagnumRN, BSN]

An interesting sidenote: The term trolling comes from fishing, where you drag bait around in the water and wait to see what bites.

this...little known fact.

[Buyer beware, BSN]

An interesting sidenote: The term trolling comes from fishing, where you drag bait around in the water and wait to see what bites.

In my day a troll was an unctuous character one would usually find cowering under a rock. He/She would by nature be badgering and disagreeable and sometimes too often found in a hospital setting. The modern day characterization of said character leaves a lot to be desired despite their similitude of obnoxious traits.

[Extra Pickles]

every time I read the word Troll I think of the Three Billy Goats Gruff story I heard as a kid.

Everyone knows Trolls really live under bridges!

[ixchel]

every time I read the word Troll I think of the Three Billy Goats Gruff story I heard as a kid.

Everyone knows Trolls really live under bridges!

I think of Dora, for my own kids growing up.