Does anyone else out there think that Nurses get jacked around often. I do as I am on my second career as a Nurse. I only have six years experience. I left my 100K job m-f 50-55 hours a week as a trucker for Americas largest parcel company, to become a Nurse. Yes a high school diploma got me a 401K, pension, health insurance that I did not pay a dime for, 6 weeks vacation, paid holidays, weekends off, and retirement of 3K per month with 30 years of service, I would have been 51 years old and a millionaire with the profit sharing and stocks given to me. But as I saw it I could help people, and if I followed this dream of Nursing I would be rewarded, so I thought. Now reality sets in I probably won't retire until 65, I buy my crappy health insurance and my pay is 80k per year working 60 plus hours a week. Did I mention all that and a BSN which costs 30K. HMM, did I make the right decision? Well maybe because I slightly more enjoy Nursing over trucking. But most Nurses think 80 K is good money! I beg to differ if you really knew what most educated and uneducated HARD working people really make. I think that the reason Nurses get jacked around is because they do not stand up together. In my past career it was male dominated. When someone or something was not right people stood together and it worked. In this female dominated profession I have found back stabbing, and people out for themselves. Why is it that an NP makes substantially less than a CRNA. I have not looked at the numbers but seems their are a high number of male CRNA's.
foolish to leave UPS (I'm guessing). #1 are you married? then you should have known about women by your age. It can be very difficult to work w/ females!!! Heck even they would rather work with men! You will have to learn the hard way like the rest of us men in the field. "Hell has no fury like a women scorned" they can be mean & nasty.
Helping people has an internal reward. The $$ is important, but NO ONE should become a nurse for the $$. And it is not meant for everyone. There is also many fields of nursing. You just might not be in the right one for you. But still, watch out for the women!!!
foolish to leave UPS (I'm guessing). #1 are you married? then you should have known about women by your age. It can be very difficult to work w/ females!!! Heck even they would rather work with men! You will have to learn the hard way like the rest of us men in the field. "Hell has no fury like a women scorned" they can be mean & nasty.
Helping people has an internal reward. The $$ is important, but NO ONE should become a nurse for the $$. And it is not meant for everyone. There is also many fields of nursing. You just might not be in the right one for you. But still, watch out for the women!!!
I'm not going to make anywhere near $75K when I graduate with my ADN here in the Midwest. I'd love to see anything close to that!
Don't feel bad, most people won't see that kind of money out of the gates (unless you're in CA or NYC). I'd be willing to bet that the person who posted that they make $75k as a new grad working 36 hours a week is either located in CA or NYC. Now factor in the cost of living in either of those areas and that salary isn't very impressive.
You say you got into nursing to "help people" and yet all you do is complain about the money. If you hate it go do something else. Or you could stop complaining about the money (all of which salary you must have accepted when you decided to take the job offer and "help people") and just do your work. If you hate it quit and go drive a truck, mow lawns, be a lion tamer, astronaut. Go do whatever your heart desires. Maybe you will find some peace and happiness. Good luck.
My daddy used to say, "If you find a job you love you will never WORK another day in your life". Do you love what you do? Are you in it for the long haul or LTL???
shigg
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foolish to leave UPS (I'm guessing). #1 are you married? then you should have known about women by your age. It can be very difficult to work w/ females!!! Heck even they would rather work with men! You will have to learn the hard way like the rest of us men in the field. "Hell has no fury like a women scorned" they can be mean & nasty.
Helping people has an internal reward. The $$ is important, but NO ONE should become a nurse for the $$. And it is not meant for everyone. There is also many fields of nursing. You just might not be in the right one for you. But still, watch out for the women!!!