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On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:29:34 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 22/11/2012 10:21 PM, Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> >> You haven't gotten with the program yet? They are takers who serve no
> >> purpose in life.

> >
> > Hell, I have worked more holidays than not, during my lifetime. Ask
> > a nurse what is like to work holidays. Not only holidays..but off
> > shifts too.

>
> The difference is nursing pays better and it is an essential service.
> Some people need 24/7 care. There is no good reason to have big sales on
> holidays.
>

Nurses may start off at a monetary level higher than Joe Schmoe over
in the shoe department; but it's beginning salary for a college
graduate with a post grad degree and they don't get rich doing what
they do.

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