I’d like life to be black and white, but ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

I’m a floor nurse, a job incredibly full of egos, passive aggressiveness, picking favorites, openly denigrating you with you present, a job I don’t like. I’m basically wiping up asses, dealing with alcoholics who fight you, washing people with dementia who don’t want to be washed, patients who refuse their meds but in the eyes of the charge I’m the guilty one if I don’t, somehow, make the person take his meds.

I hate it but this job pays my bills and even lets me save for retirement. Coming from a poor background, financial stability is incredibly important to me. I’m in in 40s for reference and not smart enough to study medicine.

It is what it is.

Job I applied for: moving beds, not empty beds but moving patients in beds from floor a to b, or taking them to the OP room, or for any kind of intervention. Everyone doing this job is happy: no floor stress, nobody micromanaging them, they get ample of free time, because they get to choose when to mark the patient as moved, don’t have to wash patients, if a patient refuses transportation they document it and move on, no drama, like when the charge asks you why patient x didn’t do whatever… seems an easy job.

but those 20K per year… (102K vs 81K fwiw)

Is it even worth it? I really hate my job but need the money.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I used to work in medicine and the docs would all say that Nurses eat their young. Nursing is a rough job.

    I don’t have any way to give you a yes no answer on taking the 20% cut.

    Your calculus is:

    • Can you afford it?
    • How would that negatively change your lifestyle?
    • What is the total stress level reduction?

    The salary difference is 21K, That boils down to a 612 reduction a pay check using 30% tax etc rate. Also I imagine your place has a 401K or some other retirement annuity that they do percent matching on, so what will the decreased pay do to that?

    Can your monthly bills absorb a 612 reduction?

    A 20% cut will cause X amount of stress in your life. Is that X amount less than the reduction of stress the new position will offer?

    The kick in the ass is, when you make enough money it doesn’t matter, when you don’t make enough it is all that matters.

    I did not take a 20% cut but I once took a job that was a pay cut and smaller future earning potential than the one I had because it offered me a better QoL.

    It was so worth it… but again it was no where near a 20% reduction.

    Here is an option. Can you take the 20% reduction and pick up OT or another part time job to offset?