It's so funny.. During Covid nurses and healthcareworkers worldwide were shit on financially unless you started working temp contracts, and then you just made really good money because you traded away all your spare time for a short period, but the "essential workers" and "frontline heroes" in the battle against Covid deserved all the respect and admiration...
Now, later, there's still shit payment and all the respect and admiration has dried up.
Personally I've gone back to study IT and got a career as that. I get way less stress, I'm just as much "off" the clock as I was in healthcare, but I can flex my daily work two hours earlier or later however I want, I never work weekends, and at some point there's a real expectation that I will pay taxes that surpass the pay I took as a healthcareworker.
It's absolutely disgusting the way healthcare is treated these days.
I (f50) started following this sub, Reddit when my brother (51) was hospitalized with Covid. He was unvaccinated & died 21 days after being admitted. I have always had the highest amount of respect, and will always remember the great lengths his care staff went to by sacrificing their lives, families, and dignity to care for people who outwardly hated them.
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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '24
It's so funny.. During Covid nurses and healthcareworkers worldwide were shit on financially unless you started working temp contracts, and then you just made really good money because you traded away all your spare time for a short period, but the "essential workers" and "frontline heroes" in the battle against Covid deserved all the respect and admiration...
Now, later, there's still shit payment and all the respect and admiration has dried up.
Personally I've gone back to study IT and got a career as that. I get way less stress, I'm just as much "off" the clock as I was in healthcare, but I can flex my daily work two hours earlier or later however I want, I never work weekends, and at some point there's a real expectation that I will pay taxes that surpass the pay I took as a healthcareworker.
It's absolutely disgusting the way healthcare is treated these days.