Question about your (life) partner 1

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Ok, here's a few questions I'm interested in hearing the answers to.

How many of you have husbands, wives, girlfirends or boyfriends that are engineers or have technical or scientific jobs?

Would you prefer to marry (or date) someone with a technical / science background or would you prefer someone who works in an entirely different field?

I'll hold off on answering for myself until a few others reply.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

On the engineers and nurses thing:

My girlfriend's mother is a nurse. Her brother is a nurse. Both her aunt's are nurses. Her uncle is in nursing school. So are 2 of her 4 cousins. A third cousin is in medical school. I found the only one in the whole family who faints at the sight of blood.

And 2 of the 15 engineers working here are married to nurses.

 

[Senselessticker]

I've dated women with careers all across the board...teacher/nurse/pharmaciast/attorney/bartender/admin asst./ski instructor/property manager/medical tech/massage thearapist/college prof./...most of which were all psycho crazy.

I imagine any female engineer would be way to responsible and organized with her life to ever catch my attention. I only go after the crazy ones.

 

[monkeydog]

I asked my wife, and she said she thought about being a nurse once.
Does that count?

 

[ctopher]

Engineer married to nursing. She's great with taking care of the kids, I the house. A good mix.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

 

[ScottyUK]

I only go after the crazy ones

You mean all women aren't all crazy? Hell, one of 'em was crazy enough to marry me!


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I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy it...

 

[Sudburyboy]

My fiance is a nurse. For some strange reason she refuses to bring home sutures, a scalpel, syringe etc. All which would be handy to have available when those freak accidents occur.

 

[Twoballcane]

I think thats called stealing ;+)

Tobalcane
"If you avoid failure, you also avoid success."

 

[Warpspeed]

I have yet to meet a nurse that did not carry around a small roll of surgical tape in her handbag.

It seems to be the female equivelant of duct tape, suitable for all kinds of instant jobs on anything at any time.

 

[l3city]

One of the cad designer in my company, is going to nursing school. What is going on...??

 

[ctopher]

There is a huge shortage of nurses. (and good ones too)

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Which is why we import so many nurses from the Philippines.

I could never understand why we have a shortage of nurses. Okay, it's very stressful and can be disgusting at times, but it pays really well and there is a lot of job satisfaction. Plus it's a very respected profession.

 

[TheBlacksmith]

"Plus it's a very respected profession" Unless you're a doctor. My wife was a nurse when we met, but she did private duty for those termianl cancer patients who were wealthy enough to die at home, on their own terms. She hated hospital work because the doctors looked down on the nurses. Maybe that has changed. Anyway, now she works in a lawn and garden shop and beside being on a first name basis with several gardening authors and state agriculture people, has a niche making "instant patio gardens" for people who can't figure it out. She'll do complementray flowering plants, or using her knowledge from her time as a chef, pot up the herbs you need if you tell her your favorite culinary style (italian, oriental, middle eastern, etc.)

 

[bradpa77]

I am very thankful that my wife is NOT an engineer. I get enough technical jargon during the day, I really don't want to hear it at home. Plus, I think I would feel a strange sense of competition with my wife if she was an engineer and I really wouldn't like to have that sort of stress around.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Blacksmith

I think it's still the same. Many doctors don't seem to treat nurses very well. But the nurses who have been at it a long time usually learn to deal with the doctors quite well. On more then one occasion I have seen my girlfriend's mother lecture a doctor--loudly, in the hall, where everyone can hear-- and the doctor slinks away and does as they are told.

 

[Warpspeed]

You are right, nurses fairly quickly develop excellent people skills in order to be effective nurses.

Exactly what is required to live with a typical cranky loony engineer.

 

[IRstuff]

Do not confuse the public people skills, which is more like being a politician, with relationship skills.

I've known nurses that were very good at their jobs, but couldn't recognize a decent man if he fell on them.

TTFN

 

[Veero]

My girlfriend of almost 4 years isn't a nurse (shock horror!) but does work in a hospital laboratory testing all sorts of horribleness which she loves to discuss at inopportune moments (right before dinner is not a good time to reveal the day's tests on a sample that was.... I wont go into it.).

However she does talk about work and her work colleagues quite a bit which I don't mind. Some of the things they get up to sound quite impressive and groundbreaking. Most of it is very interesting but sometimes as Im sure I do sometimes, she goes into too much detail, loses me and I drift off concentrating, often resulting in an evil glare. However Im sure she loves it when I start going on about how we’ve defined our Takt Time, met our OEE targets for the month and our new 5 axis machining centre capable of reducing 5 changeovers to 1 and finish hard turning in one hit.

I don’t know what it would be like having a partner who is an engineer but certainly with her being a biologist we can appreciate each others technical focus better.

One thing that does annoy her though is when I start rambling on about engines and my 205. For some reason she finds it dull listening

 

[davidinindy]

I married an attorney.
It's financial security, although I did'nt even consider her occupation when deciding to marry her.
When manufacturing was down and plants were closing, I was out of work, but she was busy doing corporate law. She does corporate law… such as bankruptcies, foreclosures, acquisitions, etc.
If we were both in engineering, particularly plastics, it would’ve been devastating.


David

 

[HgTX]

"She does corporate law… such as bankruptcies, foreclosures, acquisitions, etc."

Hey! I do weddings, bar mitzvahs, and funerals.


I used to date physicists. Now I don't know any physicists. Trying times, these.

Hg

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[Senselessticker]

Wow David...I don't know how you handle it. I dated an attorney for awhile. She was a nice gal that had been out of law school for a couple of years and had a good head on her shoulders. I got to know some of her lawyer friends around town (what a bunch of nuts!!). Anyway, I just couldn't stomach being so close to all the drama. I honestly have no idea how lawyers are able to sleep at night... It's not so much that I think lawyers are "bad" people, it just appears that most simply have no conscious. And I could NEVER trust one. Good luck to you though...