tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post8017133118533553752..comments2024-02-05T05:15:04.759-08:00Comments on Wandering Scientist: Weekend Links: The Back to the Routine EditionCloudhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-80156229258792920222017-01-08T17:01:53.706-08:002017-01-08T17:01:53.706-08:00Oh. Bed corners. I'd struggle with that! I don...Oh. Bed corners. I'd struggle with that! I don't get woozy from blood or vomit or any other bodily fluid, though, so I guess I can retrain if needed. <br /><br />I'm not sure if nurse's assistants (which is what people could retrain to most easily) get paid more than line chefs. I suppose I could look that up. But the way people rule out options is interesting to me. I'm sure there is some class of work I'd rule out, too, but I haven't thought of what it is yet. I'd definitely be better suited to some options than others, but if all that is on offer is something I think I wouldn't like, I think I'd still try. But I am definitely grateful it hasn't come to that.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-34686840059480479242017-01-08T16:55:50.157-08:002017-01-08T16:55:50.157-08:00I think we'd be in a much better place as a co...I think we'd be in a much better place as a country if we'd stop trying to bring back jobs that aren't coming back and instead focus on making the jobs that are here good jobs. Raise wages, improve conditions, and stop looking down on them.Cloudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317847285050447789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-19784246208857982972017-01-07T14:55:23.791-08:002017-01-07T14:55:23.791-08:00My husband wouldn't have a problem being a nur...My husband wouldn't have a problem being a nurse if he had to be, other than the blood wooziness he gets (part of the reason he isn't a doctor). But his mom is a nursing professor and he knows how to do bed corners.<br /><br />Having asked him he says it is really far down in the list of jobs, mainly because it is a customer service job in many ways and they're not given the respect they deserve and there's a significant amount of menial labor and you have to stand on your feet all day. He would pick it over food service because it pays better.Nicoleandmaggiehttp://nicoleandmaggie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29235839.post-27146536511790013182017-01-07T11:46:36.971-08:002017-01-07T11:46:36.971-08:00I have seen a lot of my women friends go back to s...I have seen a lot of my women friends go back to school for nursing degrees over the past 5-10 years. I think it's a great career. I know it's not for me. First, I can handle blood (when Mr. Sandwich cut off the tip of his finger, I found it and then packaged it so well that the ER doctor was impressed), but I absolutely cannot take mucus. Second, I think nurses have to be much better at science than I am. Maybe that depends on the job level, but I'm pretty sure it's true overall. I know things about science, and I find it interesting, but it is not my strength.<br /><br />But what bothers me about that NYT article is not its overt message, about the mismatch between work and identity that many men feel (I feel it to, FWIW; my current job is not one I'd pick, but it's the one I have, and no--I didn't pick it, which is another story). It's the just-barely-not-overt message that these "women's" jobs should pay more so that they can attract men. Maybe they should pay more because they're worth more, regardless of the employee's gender.Tragic Sandwichhttp://www.tragicsandwich.comnoreply@blogger.com