Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 17:12     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:I'm a lab scientist, I do microscope work, run machines and match blood for transfusions and I make 60k working half time. I never have to see a patient.


I had an image from that movie "Outbreak" where a lab guy was running the blood centrifuge and busted it, spraying contaminated blood all over him.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 17:11     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was looking at the latest job report and yet again all new jobs seem to be in healthcare..And it has been this way for a long time now it seems. The economy is still "strong" but all opening seems to be in the health care sector followed by education.

I feel like to work in healthcare and education you at least need to someone who "care" and want to help. The vast majority of us are not this way.

Is this the future? Healthvate healthcare healthcare.... And further when you further drill through the complete report you a lot of those new jobs are in the service sector and low paying as well
Sure we have a 4.2% unemployment rate, but I feel like politicians (both parties) are not painting a true picture of the economy.



Why? what koolaid are your drinking? If that were true, doctors would be working for $200K tops and a hospital ER visit won't bankrupt you.


Touche. Good point.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 16:40     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
I'm a lab scientist, I do microscope work, run machines and match blood for transfusions and I make 60k working half time. I never have to see a patient.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 16:30     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I was looking at the latest job report and yet again all new jobs seem to be in healthcare..And it has been this way for a long time now it seems. The economy is still "strong" but all opening seems to be in the health care sector followed by education.

I feel like to work in healthcare and education you at least need to someone who "care" and want to help. The vast majority of us are not this way.

Is this the future? Healthvate healthcare healthcare.... And further when you further drill through the complete report you a lot of those new jobs are in the service sector and low paying as well
Sure we have a 4.2% unemployment rate, but I feel like politicians (both parties) are not painting a true picture of the economy.



Why? what koolaid are your drinking? If that were true, doctors would be working for $200K tops and a hospital ER visit won't bankrupt you.


Ummm - the salary needs to pay back the student loans and the sacrifice of giving up your 20s. Your alternative is no healthcare at all....or all cash pay.
And the hospital admin takes a huge chunk. The health insurance sector takes a huge chunk - they should be nonprofit.
You want someone to take care of you any time day or night whenever you're sick or injured, know the latest research, give up a decade of their life to work and study for insane hours, and do it all with empathy... and you want them to do it at rates that causes them to lose money? Wow, entitled much?!
I appreciate how hard my doctors work and how smart they are.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 13:53     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:I was looking at the latest job report and yet again all new jobs seem to be in healthcare..And it has been this way for a long time now it seems. The economy is still "strong" but all opening seems to be in the health care sector followed by education.

I feel like to work in healthcare and education you at least need to someone who "care" and want to help. The vast majority of us are not this way.

Is this the future? Healthvate healthcare healthcare.... And further when you further drill through the complete report you a lot of those new jobs are in the service sector and low paying as well
Sure we have a 4.2% unemployment rate, but I feel like politicians (both parties) are not painting a true picture of the economy.



Why? what koolaid are your drinking? If that were true, doctors would be working for $200K tops and a hospital ER visit won't bankrupt you.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 13:28     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:The healthcare field has a lot of low pay jobs. If you exclude executives and high performing doctors, this field does not pay well.


+1, same with education. They are always hiring because people dont want those jobs.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 11:14     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:I care and want to help, but don't want to deal with blood and vomit bodily waste, so that rules out the healthcare field for me.



It rules out nursing and MA work, yes. Physicians aren’t typically spending their time cleaning up vomit
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 11:09     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:I work in this sector dnd hate it. Yes it's true it's the one sector continuously adding job. And folks don't assume if you work at a hospital you have great help insurance. Nope.


+2. I’m former hospital admin pp. way better health insurance as a consultant, ironically.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 07:23     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
I work in this sector dnd hate it. Yes it's true it's the one sector continuously adding job. And folks don't assume if you work at a hospital you have great help insurance. Nope.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 07:10     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:We have an aging population, so that makes sense.


And a provider shortage

OP, I have worked in healthcare for the last four years and am now healthcare adjacent (healthcare consultant).

It sucks and they’re all crooks. Don’t do it.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 04:01     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The healthcare field has a lot of low pay jobs. If you exclude executives and high performing doctors, this field does not pay well.


I make $130K as a registered nurse, I have 20 years of experience. I have BSN, no master's degree. It's not that much, but it's not bad either.


Is that without overtime??
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 22:34     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
I care and want to help, but don't want to deal with blood and vomit bodily waste, so that rules out the healthcare field for me.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 21:23     Subject: Re:All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:As someone whose living is dependent on federal government research funding if I could go back and do it all over I would have become a nurse practitioner or CRNA instead of earning a Ph.D. in science.


1,000,000%


Don't worry, this administration is about to wipe out hospitals next, and millions will lose their insurance and won't be able to afford healthcare, so really we are all equally screwed.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 21:20     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
I, too, am a nurse. BSN making $150K. I have 30 years of experience. I don't work bedside either.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 21:16     Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The healthcare field has a lot of low pay jobs. If you exclude executives and high performing doctors, this field does not pay well.


I make $130K as a registered nurse, I have 20 years of experience. I have BSN, no master's degree. It's not that much, but it's not bad either.


That's insane money for that line of work. Nicely done.