Is that really a good job though? Like are they paid well and respected?

I know a major complaint that men who go into these kinds of fields have is that they're always assigned violent and unruly patients/clients/whatever.

Obviously the work itself is shit, you're dealing with the kind of people no-one wants to work with all other things being equal. Yeah, that's the point. That's where the males are needed. Same as policing and the army.

Pay is hard to say because of how nurses are graded and all the different quals, it ranges from 'about average for educated' up to 'damn nice but not anesthetist nice', depending on which qual you have, where I am.

E: Oh, I and remembered a 3rd group. Military stuff, better ratios there.

Is that really a good job though? Like are they paid well and respected?

I know a major complaint that men who go into these kinds of fields have is that they're always assigned violent and unruly patients/clients/whatever.

Obviously the work itself is shit, you're dealing with the kind of people no-one wants to work with all other things being equal. Yeah, that's the point. That's where the males are needed. Same as policing and the army.

Pay is hard to say because of how nurses are graded and all the different quals, it ranges from 'about average for educated' up to 'damn nice but not anesthetist nice', depending on which qual you have, where I am.