We were discussing career options at work over the weekend, and one of the nurses commented that in her humble opinion, "nursing is the only career I know of that people don't "move up the ladder."
""Look at the number of nurses here still doing direct patient care. They are doing the same tasks today that they did in their first year out of nursing school.""
One said it hadn't occurred to her when she was in school than in ten years she'd still "be doing the same thing."
And she told how she had attended a ten year high school reunion and was shocked at the positions her friends held in their workplaces. How they were advancing and attaining middle management positions and she was doing "the same thing" as she had started.
She expressed particular dismay at the thought/expectation of:
""I'll STILL be doing this in twenty years."" She said I love nursing, but it hadn't occurred to me that from the first year to my twentieth or thirtieth year, I would not advance from nursing basics.""
Any opinions?