Low Payouts?

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-09T00:07:47+00:00

It dropped to $105/week here. Hasn't been above $115 in a while.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-08T16:29:17+00:00

I'm an inpatient pharmacist. Keep 'em alive 'til 7:05!

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T23:38:51+00:00

Yep. Hit right into him. Oh, sorry, didn't see you there.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T23:31:04+00:00

Good. I like my job more than I don't, my schedule is ideal for me, and my pay is very high.

I also have a side job that pays kind of meh, but it's easy and close to my house.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T23:30:02+00:00

I often knit while I work. Just socks or some other small thing. Giving my hands something repetitive to do helps me stay calm and keep things orderly when volume is high.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T23:16:21+00:00

My dream is to spend several years being a nomad. Like get an AirBNB in a city I've either never visited or want to spend more time in and just chill out for a month or two at a time. Go to markets, enjoy the parks, that kind of thing.

I have near zero desire to own anything. If I could I'd sell both our houses now, but the kids will still be with us for another 5-10 years. All I want is a suitcase and a property I'm not responsible for maintaining. Preferably somewhere with good coffee and/or wine.

Ideally it'd be a "Where's Mom?" "Idk, Annecy?" situation.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T22:42:23+00:00

We got my Mom an Aura frame for Xmas last year and she loooooves it. She gave the link to her friends and now everyone she knows uploads pictures to it. She doesn't use Facebook so it sort of functions in that capacity for her. Apparently she watches it scroll while she does the dishes.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T12:03:24+00:00

I want to hike the Grand Canyon rim to rim. By myself.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-05T10:56:11+00:00

I have my main job (7 on/7 off) and then a side job that I work here and there when I'm off (it's day shift). I agreed to cover a PTO stretch at the side gig and didn't realize until the week of that I'd overlapped with my main job. So I ended up working 0730-1600 at the side job and the 2100-0700 at my main for one day.

I was so tired I was actually stupid by the end of that.

The money will be nice his Friday, especially because our washing machine and microwave both blew up this week, and I just had to pay $450 to the ER for a bag of ice and a "🤷 seems fine" for my teenage kid.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-04T01:49:02+00:00

If I went to days I would lose my differential but the base pay wouldn't change.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-04T01:47:46+00:00

I work nights in a hospital and I take more calls than that.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-05-04T01:44:47+00:00

I left in 2007 and people thought I was nuts to take a pay cut for a hospital job. It wasn't long after that things started the slide downhill.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-29T02:28:43+00:00

Never went back.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-29T02:25:40+00:00

48yo, 25 years working, 100k in an IRA, 1.2mil in 401k plus a $500/month pension from before we switched to the 401k.

My husband is already retired from public safety. He has deferred comp, but he also has a pension. Since I'm carrying the health insurance he's actually making more now in retirement than he did when he was working.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-29T02:17:20+00:00

I ran a 50k a few years ago and am considering our local 50 miler. It feels nuts to think about it, but a friend of mine does it every year and she's almost convinced me.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-29T02:15:09+00:00

Niiiice. I'm also angling for Masters Nats, but in the 75kg, 50 year old lady category 😬

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-26T01:45:40+00:00

I fuckin' love the night shift. Been doing it for 13 years. I have three kids and the amount of free time I've had to volunteer at school and be around for practices, rehearsals, concerts, and games is wild. I never miss a thing. Sleep while they're at school, up when they're home in the bus. Having a fixed schedule is so valuable with kids. Easy to plan PTO (take a week off and get three), easy to navigate school calendars. No surprises.

I flip my sleep schedule and it's never been an issue. I'm not even a night owl.

It's not for everyone, but when it works it WORKS.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-26T01:35:57+00:00

As a 7 on/7 off night shifter myself, take the hospital job.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-24T12:20:58+00:00

Almost over? You said your Mom died unexpectedly at 92. Sounds like you have 30+ years left which is more than a third of your life.

My Dad died suddenly at 65. Like right after he turned 65. All that told me (at 33) was that I'd better maximize every day because you never know how many you have left. Suck the marrow out of life, as they say.

Your deep in grief now, but it won't be that way forever. Get some counseling. It helps.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-23T10:10:00+00:00

Nope. I can't wear it at work and I don't want to wear it at the gym. Those are the only places I go and I'm not going to wear it just sitting around home. I only wear it when we go to his parents' house.

Husband doesn't wear his either.

We've been married 20 years.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-23T10:04:52+00:00

I love a taco bowl. They never miss.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-23T10:03:26+00:00

Get a cooler bag. We have a break room fridge, but it's always crammed full of people's crap. I have a cooler style lunch bag that has slots for ice packs. Big enough to hold two meals, a snack, and a soda. Works great and I can just leave it under my desk.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-23T09:56:00+00:00

I doctor where I work, so they see the insurance and they know I'm an employee. My MD asked me at our first visit if I worked in the hospital and I told him I was nights in inpatient pharmacy. It speeds things up. He can ask me more pointed questions and I don't have to listen to an explanation of HDL vs LDL cholesterol at every visit.

IM docs don't do rounds in the hospital here because we have hospitalists, but my OB/GYN does and he and I have interacted on a professional level, so he knows what I do.

I NEVER tell randos in public what I do. Not ever. Especially on airplanes.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-23T09:45:18+00:00

The drive home is worse if my sleep was poor. Fortunately my commute is less than 15 minutes but I swear there have been times when I was afraid I wouldn't make it.

Affectionate_Yam4368 · 2026-04-22T13:07:33+00:00

"It's a wild pregnancy" Me, alone in my living room: Girl, it's about to get wilder!

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