Career as a nurse -- DH has a prejudice against it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The nurses I know are well paid (one is a nurse practitioner) and have amazing flexibility, especially if you have children. It's one of the few professions where you can dial it back to PT (if you want) when you are raising children and then jump right back in later.

Our kids aren’t looking for mommy jobs — they may not get married, may not have kids, so we are focused on jobs where they will be the breadwinner. Wouldn’t nursing be a good option if they don’t go PT? I don’t think they will want to be traveling nurses, and I don’t want to count on another pandemic. But being like a pediatric hospital nurse should clear like $100k right?

Why is your daughter more interested in nursing than being a physician, for example? Just trying to understand what she's looking for.

If she doesn't have a spouse/kids, being a travel nurse is really lucrative.

You do realize that the education differential between becoming an RN and becoming a doctor is huge, yes? In two years you can be an RN. It takes twelve years to become a doctor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The nurses I know are well paid (one is a nurse practitioner) and have amazing flexibility, especially if you have children. It's one of the few professions where you can dial it back to PT (if you want) when you are raising children and then jump right back in later.

Our kids aren’t looking for mommy jobs — they may not get married, may not have kids, so we are focused on jobs where they will be the breadwinner. Wouldn’t nursing be a good option if they don’t go PT? I don’t think they will want to be traveling nurses, and I don’t want to count on another pandemic. But being like a pediatric hospital nurse should clear like $100k right?

Why is your daughter more interested in nursing than being a physician, for example? Just trying to understand what she's looking for.

If she doesn't have a spouse/kids, being a travel nurse is really lucrative.

You do realize that the education differential between becoming an RN and becoming a doctor is huge, yes? In two years you can be an RN. It takes twelve years to become a doctor.

Thanks! I had no idea.

But we don't know whether that is the relevant consideration for OP's daughter, or not. If it's just about getting out into the workforce quickly, maybe we can suggest other options that are less taxing.

[Anonymous]

CNA makes 8.00 per hour

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CNA makes 8.00 per hour

I think you mean $800!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CNA makes 8.00 per hour

I think you mean $800!

Sorry I meant CRNA!

https://nurse.org/resources/nurse-anesthetist/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The nurses I know are well paid (one is a nurse practitioner) and have amazing flexibility, especially if you have children. It's one of the few professions where you can dial it back to PT (if you want) when you are raising children and then jump right back in later.

Our kids aren’t looking for mommy jobs — they may not get married, may not have kids, so we are focused on jobs where they will be the breadwinner. Wouldn’t nursing be a good option if they don’t go PT? I don’t think they will want to be traveling nurses, and I don’t want to count on another pandemic. But being like a pediatric hospital nurse should clear like $100k right?

Why is your daughter more interested in nursing than being a physician, for example? Just trying to understand what she's looking for.

If she doesn't have a spouse/kids, being a travel nurse is really lucrative.

You do realize that the education differential between becoming an RN and becoming a doctor is huge, yes? In two years you can be an RN. It takes twelve years to become a doctor.

Bigger issue would education cost, taking on $300k med school debt is scary

[Anonymous]

But wouldn’t an average nursing job pay better than like the average comm/HR/marketing job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:regular RN will not make 100k unless you become a travel nurse

My friend is a nurse in a rural area and makes more than $100,000 per year.

These past two years have been hard, though.

[Anonymous]

Here is an article on traveling nurse salaries:

https://www.zippia.com/traveling-nurse-jobs/salary/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nurses will always be in demand, always be able to find employment. But,
They are overworked, underpaid, and subjected to difficult situations, huge responsibility, irregular schedules, the general public, covid.... it's a tough, tough job.

RN here. I hate that I agree with this, but I do. Every word.

[Anonymous]

I would recommend your kids avoid pink collar jobs: nursing, teaching, interior designer, librarian, etc. Even though they often require extensive training, skill, and hard work, they tend to pay less under the guise of being "family friendly" while high paid tech bros roll online at 10am in their pajamas and make 4x as much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend your kids avoid pink collar jobs: nursing, teaching, interior designer, librarian, etc. Even though they often require extensive training, skill, and hard work, they tend to pay less under the guise of being "family friendly" while high paid tech bros roll online at 10am in their pajamas and make 4x as much.

so unfair but so very true. :/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend your kids avoid pink collar jobs: nursing, teaching, interior designer, librarian, etc. Even though they often require extensive training, skill, and hard work, they tend to pay less under the guise of being "family friendly" while high paid tech bros roll online at 10am in their pajamas and make 4x as much.

I disagree. I used to work in finance. I was the only female. I made a lot but I worked with all guys who had stay at home wives. It wasn’t sustainable being a mom. I wish I had a pink collar job. I didn’t even know what that meant until recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend your kids avoid pink collar jobs: nursing, teaching, interior designer, librarian, etc. Even though they often require extensive training, skill, and hard work, they tend to pay less under the guise of being "family friendly" while high paid tech bros roll online at 10am in their pajamas and make 4x as much.

I disagree. I used to work in finance. I was the only female. I made a lot but I worked with all guys who had stay at home wives. It wasn’t sustainable being a mom. I wish I had a pink collar job. I didn’t even know what that meant until recently.

That’s only because you are married to a DH who makes good money and have kids. My kids for whatever reason are not interested in that at all — maybe they will change but building a career where the man is the plan is not my advice. But I thought nursing was more on par with and engineer or consultant in pay, and if you went into like hospital administration could make near $200k. But maybe I was wrong? Does pediatric nursing pay better, my cousin does that and raves about it (but she lives at home, I thought to allow her to travel and own dogs but maybe it’s more about the money?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would recommend your kids avoid pink collar jobs: nursing, teaching, interior designer, librarian, etc. Even though they often require extensive training, skill, and hard work, they tend to pay less under the guise of being "family friendly" while high paid tech bros roll online at 10am in their pajamas and make 4x as much.

I disagree. I used to work in finance. I was the only female. I made a lot but I worked with all guys who had stay at home wives. It wasn’t sustainable being a mom. I wish I had a pink collar job. I didn’t even know what that meant until recently.

That’s only because you are married to a DH who makes good money and have kids. My kids for whatever reason are not interested in that at all — maybe they will change but building a career where the man is the plan is not my advice. But I thought nursing was more on par with and engineer or consultant in pay, and if you went into like hospital administration could make near $200k. But maybe I was wrong? Does pediatric nursing pay better, my cousin does that and raves about it (but she lives at home, I thought to allow her to travel and own dogs but maybe it’s more about the money?)

I used to earn 200-300k in finance. My bosses made 500k+ to millions.

Dh was not the plan. I actually thought I would be the breadwinner. I earned more than him when we first got married.

Dh surprised me and was more successful than I expected. He earns seven figures.