Are you in it for the money?

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Did the money play a factor in you choosing a nursing career? Do you think money is a factor in why people choose nursing as a career?

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Bailey coco, what's it like working in corrections? I'm a student nurse and I've never actually been able to talk to someone who works in the corrections field. How do you like it? How did you get started?

As the child of a nurse, and a medical assistant/pre-nursing student, I can firmly say it's not for lots of money. But nursing does have that middle-class income that I'm looking for, plus benefits.

Side benefits include: Job security, interesting, varied, semi-autonomous work, and helping people. I'm a very practical person, and wouldn't be happy in a job where I couldn't directly see the impact of what I do. I meet very interesting people, and I'm constantly being challenged. Plus I like knowing that my job takes a certain kind of person, and I'm one of those.

Huh, now I'm almost excited about returning from vacation. A good chance to rest, now let's get back to it! :)

Specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.

I was a poor single soldier before I started this whole RN thing. Comparing my old profession to this new one is like night and day. The money is way better as an RN, you have set hours, you get paid over time, you have days off in the middle of the week, everyone acts civilized, I can actually say no to my superiors, and I do not fear that my first line will show up to my house to perform an inspection. I am 100% in it for the money, benefits, and freedom.

If you saw what my old job was like, you would agree as well.

It did play a role, I'm not going to bust my butt for peanuts but if you do something you don't like after a while money won't make up for misery.

Specializes in General Internal Medicine, ICU.

I would be lying if I said that money didn't factor in me choosing nursing as a job....however that's not to say that money is the sole reason I went into nursing...but a very important factor of why I went into nursing.

Specializes in Tele, Stepdown, Med/Surg, education.

Are u joking? Bartending pays more.

Specializes in Tele, Stepdown, Med/Surg, education.

Where do you live?

Specializes in Tele, Stepdown, Med/Surg, education.
I'm in CA and work in corrections
You have to make this to survive in Cali
Specializes in Correctional.

NO i'm not in it for the money. I have a BS and MS in Electrcial Engineering and if I had kept on my former path I could have made more money. But I hated being stuck in a cubicle all day. I love being a nurse and i'm a correctional nurse, so trust me when I say, you really have to love what you do to survive the jail;)

At first I was in it for the money. Now I realize that nurses don't get paid nearly enough for what we have to do. I'm talking about bedside nurses.

If I was compensated for every job that I actually perform as a nurse in one day I would be rich. Some of the other jobs that are required to be a bedside nurse would be a waitress, gardener, cook, electrician, massage therapist, respiratory therapist, beautician, phone operator, security, language translator (don't admit you are bilingual if you don't want multiple phone calls from different floors all day everyday wanting you to interpret). Oh let's see what else, computer help desk (going back to school for IS so I don't mind this part) housekeeper, marriage counselor, psychologist, drug counselor, dry cleaner, seamstress, notary, mediator, concierge, makeup artist, transporter, manicurist and yes I have been asked multiple times to polish nails and clip toenails and I refuse. TV repair person, personal shopper I had one person ask if I could stop by Macy's for them after work and buy them a robe and bring it in to work the next day. Yeah I said a family member could do that for them.

I can name more. So just think if we were paid to do all of that. Boy oh boy I wouldn't even consider leaving nursing if we were. But the reality is we won't and I want to be paid to do one job. Not paid to do one job but required to do 25 other jobs.

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So are you saying you don't like your job?

I've been in Nursing since 1988. I've seen a lot of changes. I also saw a different "breed" of new grads emerge when the nursing shortage sky-rocketed. Some got in for pay, or job security, ability to support their families. and some for the Humanity of service with the perk of pay. Regardless of the income a nurse generates -- they EARN every penny of it -- and soul growth comes with many encounters, so Nursing is much more than money. Just my thoughts and I've met and connected with the most wonderful people peers and patients. Nurses are wonderful -- be one !!

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