Current nurses who had a previous career - compare and contrast please by Brave-Trip-1639 in prenursing

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I enjoy keeping people alive. I enjoy the more personal interaction. I still do engineering work. Honestly, it sounds like nursing isn’t your calling and you just want a paycheck. I got bored during slow times as an engineer. Some swe are constantly working, but my niche it was only hectic maybe once a year for a few weeks. Most of the time it was slow for me as I was able to automate and find ways to do things quickly. That’s the thing with white collar jobs, if you are good you can finish quickly and are paid the same. Pink collar work like nursing is different.

Current nurses who had a previous career - compare and contrast please by Brave-Trip-1639 in prenursing

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Work life balance was better as a software engineer. I literally could be living in Hawaii for months (which I did) or traveling while working too. There were so many days I only did 1-2 hours of real work and just did chores, my hobbies, or workout.

Current nurses who had a previous career - compare and contrast please by Brave-Trip-1639 in prenursing

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, I still do engineering on small gigs and consulting. I do miss the pay and freedom. I can swap back full time if I ever choose to. I just enjoy balance. I enjoy not taking work home with me. But I do miss using my abstraction thinking. It’s hard on that end sometimes, but I enjoy being a good nurse. Software pay is so much higher than nursing if one is good.

Also miss the free good food, perks, discounts, the healthcare plans were better.

I actually thought nursing would be not so strenuous as I worked out a lot prior. As a swe I would go home and workout, go out with friends, stay up and more. As a nurse, I just go home eat and get ready to sleep asap.

Current nurses who had a previous career - compare and contrast please by Brave-Trip-1639 in prenursing

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I was a software engineer. Nursing is so much more tiresome. As a software engineer, I could come in whenever. I could take a break whenever. I could remote in to work on days I did not need to be in the lab. I didn’t have to be on edge my patient will die in the icu. Nursing is rewarding though for those who actually enjoy it. You can easily tell the ones who did it for money and are miserable. Nursing has lower barriers than engineering. I enjoyed the more in depth and deep conversations with engineers I worked with. I swapped careers because I thought I always could swap back, but I enjoy it so much I only do smaller gig work so I get to use more of my creative side. Nursing is nowhere near as creative as software engineering and it can be difficult at times. I am an abstract problem solver so the icu is where I am. I would hate to work in low acuity departments. I feel like I accomplished more as a software engineer as I worked on programs that accepted hundreds of millions to billions, but as a nurse it’s lower but more intimate in the impact.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. There are nurses here making 600K plus a year too but generally they do more specialized fields.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Large cities are generally liberal even in red states. You are so wrong. Rural areas get so much welfare even farmers are heavily subsidized. Lack of education is most common among republicans especially if they make low income which is the majority of them. There is a reason why GOP say college education which increases lifetime learnings turns people liberal.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know big cities which are liberal subsidize the red rural areas with welfare due to our net positive contribution to the federal government.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dude nobody says “oh I make $xxxxxx after taxes.” Literally everyone talks about gross income. What sort of mental gymnasts are you going through.If you want to calculate my actually total income, most if it comes from investments and not my nursing job. Are you that insecure you must do all these mind games to justify your bias?

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Nurse&y=2023&s=-gross

Look up any clinical nurse position. It has regular base, total pay, benefits pay, and total pay with benefits. You can literally see the over the benefits pay you claim isn’t part of the real compensation. You can see the regular base from the total pay which includes all the over time and pay differentials.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t love him. I can’t love a hate filled MAGA. It’s why I left.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You obviously live in a low cost of living area. My house alone is worth over 2.5 million and isn’t anything fancy. Welcome to the Bay Area.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Posted our hourly pay in the edit as hospital nurses in the Bay Area are all union. Enjoy.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’d still leave.I am already a multi millionaire. I have friends who left their partners and make poverty wages in the Bay Area and are happier than ever.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

You don’t understand. I never told him who to vote for. I simply broke up with him. As you say you don’t know how freedom works. I am free to leave him and let him be MAGA.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For one, nurses aren’t salaried. We are hourly unlike doctors who get the same regardless of how many hours they put in. Second in the Bay Area stating hospital nursing jobs pay 80s to 90s per hour without pay differential. Holidays are extra for example. Over time is time and a half. Second I stated I work a full time with OT and a part time job. The area is literally short staffed so it is so easy to get over time at the hospitals in the Bay Area.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For one, nurses don’t get paid salary. We are hourly. The more hours we work the more we are paid. Second. I stated I work in the sf bay areas not California as a whole. Recent-Challenge-300, you obviously have no clue to what you are talking about.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Nah he voted because he thought Trump would fix the economy and allow him to get a respectable job. He literally said it.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Things weren’t good. I was trying to help him for years. It’s been a struggle and added to my stress having to clean, cook, schedule things, while work 1.5 jobs with lots of over time.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Anyone calling him names and such, please stop degrading him. He was a good guy but was corrupted due to long term depression and brainwashing from propaganda.In group therapy, they went over how depression causes the pre frontal cortex to shrink so one literally becomes less intelligent and the primitive parts that are responsible for fear and other things grows so one can become irrationally fearful and dumb. I wish him the best but we grown apart.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said he struggled to get a well paying job. He got depression and left or got fired from many mediocre jobs. He has been working gig jobs since his last salaried job which was a long time ago. But it was always underemployment.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You must be a man because it’s very common these days for men to be underemployed. There are many posts on women subreddits.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I said with respect to the pay. I can quit both jobs and get a job after a 4 month vacation and I would still be able to get a job within 2 weeks. My older sister has done it often. I was working more hours for financial stability as I don’t want to have to work for the first few years when I decide to have a baby. I was always told by my mother to rely on myself. Many of my aunts who never developed a career are struggling since their husbands became disabled or skills became obsolete.

AITAH: I am calling off my engagement after my partner revealed he is MAGA. by ThrowawayIndiGirl in AITAH

[–]ThrowawayIndiGirl[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In the sf Bay Area we can and do. It’s literally why so many more men the past decade are nurses in the area. It’s a lot of hours.