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And if they're a bit smarter they study a specialty (diagnostics, midwife etc) and can end up in high-end private practice or even working for themselves - have a sister that does private midwife (contract) - constantly booked up the next 9 months (and even more) and it's all referral/repeat/word-of-mouth business. (Toughest part is having to plan holidays a year in advance and turning people down for that period.
Also she has a lot of friends, many of them bored? want to see somewhere else? Work in Dubai for a year (crap life for women but mega $), or France, or UK, North America... - a good up-to-date nurse will have a job almost anywhere lined up before the email has finished transmitting.
Those that don't bother to update skills, after many years still back home cleaning old folks bedpans.
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No, but I did have a girl friend a few years ago that was a nurse administrator during the week and head nurse on the weekends. She never talked about training, but she is smart. We have a nurse at work whose office is somewhat near mine. I would guess he doesn't go to medical training because he's either in the office or on vacation/sick leave.
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"Plus, in nursing, you don't have to study throughout your career to stay relevant"
Oh my...so wrong! Where did you get that idea from. My mother was a nurse over 50 years ago and was constantly relearning. I would guess today, even more so with all the technology being injected into health care. Some good , some bad.
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You are an engineer or not.
Did he fiddle with stuff as a kid? Taker things apart to see how they worked? Make go carts, or play with mechano? Did he get into electronics, making stuff at home, or programming on a basic computer?
If he didnt do any of these he isnt an engineer and shouldnt go into software.
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Quote: He hesitates between nurse and web developer.
Maybe he could combine the two and go into tech support! 
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In times of the BBS there was this tagline that said "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway." If an advise is wise then it is difficult to advise and obey at the same time. 
So my advice is not to advise him anything. A responsibility for other peoples life choices is too heavy to carry on your own shoulders. Sorry to moralize early in the morning. It is well intended. ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
modified 6-Nov-17 5:24am.
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Those are two very different careers! Nursing, as someone else has said, is a vocation and generally requires a person to work well with people - put them at ease when they're in distress and sometimes do things that you know is going to hurt them. IT doesn't generally need that level of people skills but involves a lot of 'engineering' type stuff like problem solving and graphical design.
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Nursing is ONLY for a people person. You have to genuinely love helping people.
That certainly helps with IT but I guess not essential.
If he is not he will eventually end up resenting the people he is supposed to be helping and the people he works with.
I worked as an AAC technologist (what Stephen Hawking, Roger Eber, etc. use) for a hospital clinic for almost 14 years. I was described as a "Left-brain" IT type by one of my profesors at school.
I trust that's helpful for your friend.
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November the 5th in the UK is known as "Guy Fawkes Night", or "Firework Night", and celebrates the failure of a plan to blow up the government in 1605 - clearly governments can really hold a grudge.
Traditionally, an effigy of the main plotter - Mr Fawkes himself - is burnt on a bonfire.
But not if you have really slow broadband: BT Openreach van effigy set alight by frustrated villagers - BBC News[^]
Telstra - take notes!
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More than that, he was a Papist!!!!!!! 
November the 5th, burn a Catholic night!
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The nations of Europe could always abrogate the Peace of Westphalia and restart the religious wars.
We could now have a three-way fight - Catholics vs Protestants vs Moslems, with the Jews caught in the middle  
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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And all the atheists can look on in dismay, just like we have done for centuries.
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I beg to differ; until the 18th century there were very few true atheists. There were quite a few non-observant Christians/Jews/whatever.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I dont know. I wasnt there,
But if I know British people, they are an irreverent bunch.
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It's lucky Mr Fawkes attempted this dastardly deed on Nov 5th. If the plot had been planned for the summer my neighbors would be letting fireworks off on June 21st even later in the night with the longer daylight hours.
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Don't go there. Feliway plugged everywhere, curtains drawn before it gets dark, TV on and turned up loud ... I'd ban the lot of 'em, except organised displays.
Mind you, they go wrong as well: Fireworks display in Amesbury injures 14 - BBC News[^]
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I saw that, from the video it looked like they put fireworks on the bonfire?
The bigger multi-shot fireworks should be banned from sale to the public for use in their (small) back gardens (yards)
What was wrong with the small fireworks that spewed a bit of green red and orange for a few seconds, great for ooo, ahh, ooo, ahh noises.
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OriginalGriff wrote: the main plotter - Mr Fawkes himself
Fawkes was not the main plotter, he was just the poor so and so who got caught and tortured first.
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I was doing the TL;DR bit for our non-English friends: it was a complicated plot of little interest to most these days.
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I did comment at a fireworks night I went to on Friday that an effigy of Junckers should have been burnt. It would have been most amusing!
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Ah, Guy Fawkes, the last man to enter parliament with honest intentions 
Cheers,
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"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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...where the word "file" comes from.
In the medieval times there were no such things as binders, folders or directories. They came into being in the nineteenth century.
Important papers were instead put in order on a thread.
Latin for thread is Filum.
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I didn't know that! 
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I learned about it yesterday.
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So they would just start a new thread... 
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