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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums35 Slogans For College Majors If They Were Honest:
Biochemistry: Spend 4 years aspiring to discover the cure for cancer, and the rest of your life manufacturing shampoo.
Aerospace Engineering: It actually is rocket science.
Zoology: Because you cant major in kittens.
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Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Accounting: Selling your soul for money.
I do however agree with the Finance slogan.
Finance: Accounting was too hard.
I was a dual major, Finance/accounting
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)rogerashton
(3,920 posts)If you torture the data long enough, they will tell you whatever you want to hear.
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)"What can I say? Daddy's paying the tuition."
Warpy
(111,277 posts)That one hurt it was so accurate. Somebody needs to do a study on PTSD among nurses. We've all got it to one extent or another and no one seems to care.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)My first spouse was a nurse practitioner and an incredibly strong and caring person. Dealt with mostly terminal patients before dying all too early of multiple myeloma.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)Intellectually, emotionally, and physically. I am a nurse practitioner myself, in outpatient pediatrics. We see patients from birth thru completing college, which requires a very broad knowledge base.
Fortunately, in a regular every day pediatric office, most of the problems are relative uncomplicated and generally easily solved. Nonetheless, at the end of every work day, I head home emotionally spent.
Your first wife sounds as if she was a stellar representative of our profession. How sad her life was not longer.
Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)I knew I was unhappy at the end of my nursing career, but everyone told me it was just burn out. I didn't realize until I retired that it was actually much more serious than that.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)I think a lot of us would have if we could have.
I want to know what credentials one needs to design and test cat/kitten toys. Now THAT would be a job without much of a downside.
central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)you publish in a mathematics journal.
If you understand something but can't prove it, you publish in a physics journal.
If you don't understand something, but can prove it, you publish in an economics journal.
If you don't understand something and can't prove it, you publish in a psychology journal.
By the way, an economics major is someone who lacked the charisma to be an accountant.