Anonymous
06/22/2025 17:16
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
Ha. Walk a mile in my shoes in the cardiovascular ICU and then let me know if you still think I make an insane salary for what I do.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 17:13
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.
Oh bullshit. There are so many midlevel salaries possible- PA, NP, CNL, RN in hospitals, RTs, PT, OT, hospital case manager. ID nurse, QA nurse, informatics RN.
Everything I just listed pays $85 -$140k in the DMV — to start. That said, a lot of these are grueling jobs and a couple will be taken over by AI.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 16:42
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
I have questions for the RN's who posted that they made $130k and $150k per year. What type of nursing/what setting? Where do you live?
I'm an RN with 20 years of experience who's currently working in a hospital in the Baltimore area. I made $115k last year. I'm burned out and would love to get away from bedside work but from everything I've read getting into a different area of nursing will entail a significant pay cut.
I'm an RN with 20 years of experience who's currently working in a hospital in the Baltimore area. I made $115k last year. I'm burned out and would love to get away from bedside work but from everything I've read getting into a different area of nursing will entail a significant pay cut.
Anonymous
06/21/2025 11:48
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Or we could change how we train Physicians. Not to mention remove so much of the middlemen in for profit insurance that drives up cost.
AMA cartel is too powerful
Anonymous
06/21/2025 08:55
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
Why not put the screws to the med schools who are charging 70-80k per year in tuition and/or make medical school 3 years? A lot of schools are using “case-based learning” where students just get together in groups and teach each other, lectures are taped, and some of the fourth year is elective rotations. What exactly do you need to pay them quite so much money for for four years?
Anonymous
06/21/2025 01:38
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
She's making $130K as an RN with 20 years of experience. What seems "insane" about that compensation to you?
Anonymous
06/20/2025 23:49
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
If you work as a RN in CA, you can make double that with all the different premium pay rules.
Anonymous
06/20/2025 20:48
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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??
Yes, without overtime.
Anonymous
06/20/2025 17:48
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am thinking about healthcare administration.
That's prime for A.I. to take over. Doesn't require much hands on and A.I. could number crunch and determine management changes as fast as a million humans working all at once.
you can say that about any job. This counterpoint is universal. Only exceptions at this moment are the traditional trades.
Those are the only real jobs that exist. You seem to think there are not many of those, but it's like the vast majority of jobs really.
Office jobs are about to become extinct.
Anonymous
06/20/2025 09:30
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am thinking about healthcare administration.
That's prime for A.I. to take over. Doesn't require much hands on and A.I. could number crunch and determine management changes as fast as a million humans working all at once.
you can say that about any job. This counterpoint is universal. Only exceptions at this moment are the traditional trades.
Anonymous
06/20/2025 08:45
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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??[/quote
Yes, regular 80hr per pay period
Anonymous
06/20/2025 08:28
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
With an aging population and a society with a proclivity for putting everyone on the spectrum I would encourage teens to look into occupational therapy, physical therapy and mental health professions. AI won’t infiltrate these roles.
Anonymous
06/19/2025 12:47
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
Or we could change how we train Physicians. Not to mention remove so much of the middlemen in for profit insurance that drives up cost.
Anonymous
06/12/2025 23:13
Subject: All jobs are in healthcare
Anonymous wrote: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.
+1000. Signed, a cancer survivor.
Anonymous
06/11/2025 19:04
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.
NP - Great illustration of why emphasizing "caretaking" is bad in healthcare, teaching, etc. It's a profession and a business. If it pays well, it will attract skilled people who care about doing their jobs well. But making it about personal-level caring devalues the work, because it suggests you should do it free/cheap because you're just so caring.
BTW, the ER visit bankrupts you because our insurance system drives up costs to benefit middlemen.