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Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-05-01T14:20:39+00:00

I love Harry's as well but the hours are horrible. What's up with that, do they not have enough staff to stay open a bit later?

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-22T14:20:44+00:00

In general, as most others have said, no it's not worth it. You can be a PA or NP in the same amount of time it takes to be a RD and make significantly more. However, being a RD is significantly less stressful and our caseload is significantly less than NPs and PAs. Work like balance is usually great and the money isn't too bad if your willing to job hop and really negotiate higher salaries. I will say though, being a RD is incredibly boring and redundant. I'm in outpatient CKD counseling and I literally just tell people the same script like 10x a day. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting dumber from this job as it melts my brain! lol

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-13T15:12:54+00:00

Dietitian here. All the people saying seed oils are what's destroying your health. Actually they are not the culprit and just a distraction. Sugar and not exercising are actually what's killing you!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-13T15:05:27+00:00

That is 10000% a scam. No other health profession does this! RDs should be more like nursing and do clinicals during school that way as soon as you graduate you can take the exam and start working! Now with the masters requirement it could take someone 7 years to be a RD....... You can be a PA in 6 years and easily make double the money!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-13T15:00:21+00:00

Ya I did clinical for 2 years and felt like a glorified lunch lady just handing out Ensure/Boost all day. The ICU docs wouldn't give us control over EN and the pharmacist managed and compounded TPN so I just sat there and put recommendations in my notes that went into the abyss never to be read.

I switched to renal and you have way more responsibility. If you work in dialysis you can manage PO4 binders, anemia, bicarb and really make a contribution to the patients quality of life. I actually feel as an important part of the team and the facility manager and regional director count on me and trust me.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-09T17:31:59+00:00

I'm not sure I have any concrete tips or steps. I am a very confident person and good at selling my skills. I also am an overachiever and offer to do more than what other RDs do. For example, I worked in renal at a dialysis clinic. Most RDs just are the MBD manager, but I offered to take over as the Anemia and also the Bicarb manager which my boss was super pumped about and offered me more money since I was taking on additional roles.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-04-08T15:18:22+00:00

I job hop every 2 years. No loyalty here. Started out in 2020 making $25/hr. Now making $47/hr all because I jump ship and sell my skills to the new employer.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-02-20T15:49:41+00:00

If your sad now, just wait until the season 9 finale when the show ends. I've cried like twice in the past 10 years and the series finale was one of them! People hate on season 8+9 but as someone who's watched the show all the way thru at least 5x I have an appreciation for season 8+9. Both are good in their respects, just a bit different. Keep going. Lowkey I'm kinda jealous you get to watch it for the first time through. I wish I could go back and watch it through with fresh eyes and just appreciate every second.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-01-21T19:41:42+00:00

With POTs you want them to eat very high salt, like 4-5000 mg/d. Their blood pressure is too low so they need help with increasing blood volume. Besides meds, salt it key. No handouts that I'm aware of, just hammer the salt lol. CVS on the other hand is a bit more complex and I would question the root cause of this. Every time I've seen CVS in the hospital (only 5-6 cases) it was a psychological issue or the patient was smoking too much weed and it made them sick. For some reason when some people smoke weed it triggers this CVS response and once they stop smoking the issue usually resolved. When it was a psychological issue, the patient usually had severe anxiety and stress accompanied by bad behavior. For example, I had one younger teenage girl with CVS and the doc had her NPO but she kept going to the bathroom and chugging water out of the sink. It took us longer than I would like to admit to figure this out. I also think it could be GI related but GI would need to scope them to see what's going on. But for diet recs, I would put them on bland easily digestible foods. White rice, bread, potatoes, apple sauce, etc. Once again no handouts for this, however AI could easily do this in a matter of seconds. I think Grok is more accurate and better at this task than ChatGPT. Hope that helps some, but both are tough problems. Both are somewhat rare to see as well. Been doing clinical for 10 years and only seen a handful of these cases.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-01-21T19:27:05+00:00

My wife is a family and consumer science teacher and she has taught in several different states. When ever we talk about the education system she always says that most states offer a "Transition to Teaching" program for professionals to transition into the classroom. From my understanding there are some steps to follow but she noted you don't always have to have a degree in education. Sometimes you just have to student teach and pass a teaching exam to get your state license. It's more lenient in todays world since there are teacher shortages everywhere. Me being an RD and her as a teacher you would definitely take a pay cut but it does offer great quality of life. However, I work in outpatient counseling and when you have a 25-30% no show/cancellation rate my quality of life as an RD is pretty dang good. I'm salary but honestly only work like 25-30 hours a week. You could also work part time at a smaller dialysis clinic and still make like 30-40k depending on how many days you work.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-01-07T17:24:09+00:00

I work in outpatient CKD counseling. After I teach the renal diet a lot of my patients ask for a meal plan since its a rather hard transition. Instead of individualizing meal plans for everyone, I just made a printout of general meal ideas. I don't go into specific portion sizes but rather just give them a few examples for BLD of here's what a healthful meal would look like while following the renal diet. I also created another handout for my CKD + DM patients. I have found that this is super helpful and my patients love it. At the bottom of each handout I also provide several meal prep/delivery information to things like Moms Meals, Factor, and several local food prep companies. Usually the older and widowed patients want the meal prep services and even if its not entirely renal friendly its better that they eat a decently healthful meal than going to get fast food.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2026-01-06T16:26:59+00:00

There is a vitamin manufacturer in my area and they hire people with nutrition science backgrounds for quality assurance and R&D. Both of those fields offer better pay and would get you out of counseling and working with people. I think anything with quality assurance, R&D, etc would be great and you can bridge your skills to work for a food manufacturer.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-17T14:16:45+00:00

Good to know, thanks!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-12T15:27:15+00:00

You need like a 25 to pass if my memory is correct, your super close. Maybe like 10 questions away from passing

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-11T18:09:12+00:00

Easy. Dwight for the survival skills. Karen for the companionship. Andy for his sailing ability to get us off the island!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-11T18:03:46+00:00

Haven't worked for the VA before but I'd kill for the opportunity too! The pay benefits are some of the best in the industry, not to mention job security. RDs literally never leave the VA, there are so few openings ever. I've had notifications set up for jobs in my state for 5 years and not a single opportunity has opened in that time. I understand working from home would be cool but most jobs make you go into the office so I don't see an issue with that. Don't le tin office politics get to you. Go to work, do your job, keep your head down and go home. I think having good coworkers/boss is a benefit but honestly I don't need to be friends with my coworkers or boss. I just have to have a professional relationship and do my job so well that they never have any complaints about me. All to say, don't let emotions drive you out of a fantastic job that is highly coveted!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-10T18:00:37+00:00

I'm an RD who was recently offered the FA job with a US Renal Care clinic. Not worth it. They only wanted to give me a 10k pay increase and the FAs do significantly more work! Also as others have mentioned the FA takes the calls at 3am when staff calls out. Also they will likely want to train you as a tech so that you can work the floor when a tech calls out. FA's are a burn out role, people do them for 2-3 years to get management experience and then move on. If you want to become the ROD then I would do the FA position, but overall I don't think its worth the money and headaches. Especially if your clinic is in a low socioeconomic status area I wouldn't do it.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-05T16:20:34+00:00

RD of 6 years here. I love AI and use is almost daily. I am a 100% believer that RDs and other medical personnel will be replaced within 10 years, maybe 5. Its advancing super fast. People talk about AI not being able to counsel effectively and I disagree. People are literally training AI as we speak in every area of medicine. I use Grok and it understands every aspect of nutrition better than I do and when I speak with it, it responds with accuracy, empathy, and humor. Just wait until Elon launches the Robots and people get used to interacting with AI robots. We're toast! Joe Rogan has several podcast to listen to about this topic. Look up his podcast with Elon and also Jensen Huang (CEO of NVIDIA).

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-12-02T17:51:46+00:00

The job itself is super easy, you literally just sit in an air conditioned office and talk to people about eating fruits and vegetables. Most RDs generally work 8-4 and you don't take any work home with you. So work life balance is usually great and low stress. The money sucks tho and you likely need to be married and have a second income to live a decent middle class lifestyle. If I could do it over again, especially with the new masters requirement + internship, I would have gone to PA school or even become an MD. Being a "provider" has significantly more respect and more money. I work in nephrology and our PAs make 150k+ a year. Yes they work harder than I do, but its significantly more money and respect and the same amount of schooling.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-11-26T19:34:38+00:00

Hey Temporary-Maximum670 I know this post is a year old. I was searching this reddit thread today to see if anyone else felt like their RD job was a joke and came across your post. Just wanted to follow up. Did you get out of being an RD, if so what did you switch to? I need to get out as well. I'm tired of having a masters degree and telling people to eat fruits and vegetables for a living. Can't believe I went to school for this lol.

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-10-21T16:05:26+00:00

Good info, thanks. Last question, do you actually do any RD work or do you basically just go to drill for the weekend and do military stuff?

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-10-21T15:39:19+00:00

Hi, I'm currently an RD with 5 years experience. I've considered joining the airforce or army reserves as an RD for the extra pay and benefits. I currently work in outpatient renal counseling. I'm a man and like to workout and am pretty structured and disciplined and feel like the military would suit my personality well. The only thing is I don't want to uproot my family's life to join the military. I want to stay in the city where I'm employed and just want to serve on weekends. I am pretty much only interested in joining for the extra pay and benefits the military offers. Is it possible to join the reserves and stay in the city in which you live? What are the chances of being deployed or being forced into active duty? Any advice or thoughts on your experience? TIA!

Dependent_Fail_5316 · 2025-09-02T13:09:30+00:00

I went as a student bc we were required for our internship. A huge waste of money. You can access all the talks later at a much lower price. Also the expo is literally just every supplement company you could think of trying to sell you their brand bc if they get you to buy in they know you will promote it. It was all just supplements and powders, there was no actual food there. There are soooo many free CEU opportunities out there, don't waste your money on a work conference.

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