ShatteredCitadel t1_j3o60zo wrote
Reply to comment by ChrisNYC70 in What New Yorkers need to know as thousands of NYC nurses begin strike by Nscience
You can disagree all you want. Why do you think people want to work as a doctor or dentist or vet over being a nurse? It sure as shit isn’t cause they like staring at teeth or putting their hand up a cows birthing canal. It’s money. Nurses earn considerably less than the three professions you listed. If the nurses earned $500K for the top on their field in specialist positions like doctors do (or even more for the real rockstars) then you bet your ass people would line up out the door for nurses.
A lack of good wages for a long time has kept interest in the role down. Now there’s both a wage and staff shortage. Even if they up the salaries to insane levels the staff problem won’t be solved.
volkommm t1_j3ocp67 wrote
Most people are at the job they are at because their ACTUAL dream jobs are unattainable or unrealistic due to lack of opportunity, lack of willpower/intelligence, or other circumstances.
Not everyone can be an astronaut, but I bet you everyone on that mission planning team wishes they were.
There's a difference between people wanting a job for money and wanting a job because it's decent money and it's the best they can do.
ShatteredCitadel t1_j3oh8yt wrote
I would absolutely be a nurse if it paid way more. Many people would. Not because it’s money because there are people who are passionate about many things.
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