On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:00:06 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 23/11/2012 6:21 PM, sf wrote:
>
> >>>
> >>> And for what we do, we don't get paid nearly enough. Other people's
> >>> lives are in our hands..literally.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't know how much you get paid. It changes from one area to another.
> >> Around here nurses are quite well paid, and I know several Canadian
> >> trained nurses who are working in the US and making good money. FWIW, I
> >> have a SiL who is a psychiatric nurse and I am under the impression that
> >> her annual salary is in the $70-80,000 range.
> >
> > Why is that supposed to be considered a windfall if she has years of
> > experience? That's what pushers with similar qualifications at the
> > supervisory level make (RNs are supervisors too) and you're begrudging
> > that salary to her? Why, because she's female?
>
>
>
> Why would you suggest that I said that was a windfall or that I
> begrudged her that salary. It is a pretty good wage, As for females.....
> it is a hell of a lot more than most female dominated positions. Nursing
> is a much better paid job here than it was a few decades ago.

I read it the wrong way and took it that you were disparaging her,
sorry. It wasn't for lack of rereading - because I know what your
wife did for a living and I couldn't believe you were saying that.

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