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.
I spent about 20 years doing sales and I hated every minute of it.
I now have a consistent office job where I wear quite a few hats, but there’s no pressure for me to convince people to spend their money on crap they don’t need.
Not having the urge to step on the gas and plow into a cement wall on your way to work is worth far more than that 20%.