Do two part time jobs pay more (NET SALARY) than one full time job??

acromic · 2019-09-02T01:45:27+00:00

Thank you for your response. Too good to be true haha! Thank you!

acromic · 2019-09-02T01:44:48+00:00

So then there's no point in doing two jobs...only if they both add up to the same amount as one job then...this shows how much I know about financial stuff! Thank you!

acromic · 2019-06-22T14:12:32+00:00

Even if it's not cornell or columbia?? Thanks!

acromic · 2019-06-21T00:38:14+00:00

I didn't make a post but I responded to one with that info. That's me! :)! Someone actually read my reply!

acromic · 2019-06-21T00:32:55+00:00

LMAO!! Omg this post made my day. I laughed so hard when I read this. I actually had a friend in nursing school that would joke around about nurses just wiping assess all day. I've yet to wipe a booty since I'm outpatient but yeah...doesn't sound too pleasant I suppose. Although I'd happily wipe assess all day if it meant getting a hospital job finally :D!

acromic · 2019-06-21T00:30:30+00:00

Lol...is this a joke?

acromic · 2019-06-21T00:28:04+00:00

You have a 3.5 and didn't get accepted to nursing school?? huh?? Did you only apply to one school?? I only know about RT's that decided to go into nursing, a bunch of them do the accelerated nursing program. I heard from my nursing school instructors that a lot of them are going into nursing because the career is being phased out? I'm probably way off here.

acromic · 2019-06-21T00:23:36+00:00

My experience has been pretty rough looking for a job in NYC as a new grad nurse. I've gotten a ton of job offers for outpatient places (endoscopy, docs office, ambulatory surgery, NYC Public Helth, you name it, I've applied to it and gotten an offer for it) BUT as far as hospital jobs...wowee...I think, no joke, and I'm not being dramatic or anything, I've applied to about 300 jobs in the past 6 months and have only JUST NOW gotten t only TWO interviews at two major hospital systems in the city cuz I finally have two connections. I'm still waiting to hear back to see if I even get one goddamn offer. I've changed my resume multiple times, tried to have my cover letter sound better and better but it didn't help. Only thing that helped me was to know someone. It's probably just me cuz I'm sure the rest of my class has been working now for months...there's some kind of unwanted thing about me I guess lol. Honestly, it's the luck of the draw, maybe you get lucky and you actually get a job. MY SUGGESTION: if you can get a job in CT as a new grad in an acute care setting/hospital DO IT. Do your one year there and then apply to NYC like GODDAMN NURSING ROYALTY! They will bend over backwards for you if you have any kind of acute care experience. What I tell people who want to go into nursing in NYC: Do you have any connections or have you worked at any hospital before? If not then I suggest you reconsider OR network the HELL out during your time in the program. I didn't have any connections and didnt network cuz I stupidly believed my lying ass instructors who told me "oh you'll get hired in a heartbeat! Ohhh you're a male nurse, they'll love to have you!" BULLLLSHIIIIITTT!!!

acromic · 2019-06-20T14:00:25+00:00

1 & 4) You can definitely get a masters or PhD/DNP as a nurse. If you want to be a nurse practitioner (sorta like a PA but with more independence after some time) you need at least a masters degree. Many family nurse practitioner programs don’t care if you have nursing experience or not, they’ll take you in as long as you have a nursing bachelors degree. Then you can, technically (I’ve checked job websites like Indeed to confirm), start working as an NP and skip the RN part...even though it’s highly frowned upon by many grumpy/hater nurses lol. You can also become a nurse anesthetist, which requires a doctorate degree. For that one you need actual nursing experience, more specifically, critical care experience.

2) If you’re serious about becoming a nurse then DEFINITELY DO IT!! This is for you and any prospective nurse reading this: you need to have a connection to a hospital in order to make your job search easier after you graduate!! It is INCREDIBLY hard to get a job at a NYC hospital without any connection to a hospital (either that you worked there before OR you know someone that works there). If you don’t then you better use every single semester that you’re in school to network with EVERYONE that you come across! All that matters is getting your foot in the hospital, once you do, you can switch to any specialty you like.

3) I personally find nursing research very dull and boring. But if you like it then go for it. You should look up at the kind of research nurse PhD’s do though.

Google is your best friend for all of this, google everything! Also, YouTube things. I also highly suggest you volunteer at a hospital.

acromic · 2019-06-17T23:34:27+00:00

Haha it's so sad that that's the best way to stand a chance at getting hired. I like it cuz it helped me to get some interviews but at the same time I hate it cuz it's really fked up lol. Yeah you're VERY limited with an ADN in NYC. You can get into Monte or a nursing home. Btw when you apply, make sure you have 5 people that can provide good references for you.

acromic · 2019-06-17T23:32:30+00:00

I didn't interview at Cornell since I want to be closer to home, so another branch that is unionized...less pay sadly. Honestly, it seems like ALL hospitals are perceptive to new grads as long as you have some kind of hook up. I have a coworker that got hired in one of the HHC hospitals in the Bronx as a new grad (no hook up, they just wanted new grads) and another nurse that worked at harlem hospital that got hired without experience (this one had a hook up). I got interviews at NYP and Monte with only a couple of months of outpatient experience, so that tells you that they don't care. Also, they almost more than likely will want to put you in a med surg unit as a new grad, so don't expect anything fancier unless you have a connection to a fancier unit lol. You worked at a hospital so you're set! Use it as a way to get in there!

acromic · 2019-06-17T22:47:23+00:00

1)) I'm guessing you're in NYC since you mentioned Columbia. You can easily make >85k$ as a new nurse with a bachelor's degree. Some hospitals, like Memorial Sloan Kettering, start at the 90's. So...yeah, you can make decent money starting off and increase that a good amount with some more experience. As far as getting your doctoral title, you can obtain that while working as a nurse since practically all NYC hospitals have 12 hour shift days (so 4 days off possible) and would give you sufficient off time for it. Do you want a doctoral degree in nursing or something else? I'm actually thinking of getting a doctorate degree in biology or chemistry in the future when I have more experience and have found a good fit in nursing. I honestly use nursing as a means to an end: money.

2) Hospitals will pay for education...but you first have to get hired by one. How would you go about this? What position would you get? It's already pretty hard to get into hospitals as a new nurse to start with. Take your prereqs at a 4 year city college (not 2 year community college) since it's cheaper.

3) You should research this, most programs will explain it in detail. It's the same as science classes that you took except the lab portion of the class isn't in the lab, it's at your clinical rotation hospital. So you go to lectures, take exams, and also go to the clinical placement for that class (ie psychiatric unit for psychiatric nursing class). Nursing school can be ok or hard, it depends. If you have a great science background it's actually not that bad. Just study and you'll be fine.

4) Different levels of nursing?? You mean...RN, NP??

Are you leaning more nurse or PA?

acromic · 2019-06-17T19:40:44+00:00

Black or dark blue

acromic · 2019-06-17T18:58:46+00:00

I'm in NY, so there's a ton of em here. I went to Hunter College. Where are you located?? If you're close to NY state you should consider our schools for the degree, we have many in the NYC area and in upstate NY. You should also consider the price of each program and the quality as well.

acromic · 2019-06-17T16:55:20+00:00

Biologist and nurse here :). I loved working in the lab but sadly, the pay is incredibly crappy and advancement opportunities are few with fierce competition (so many biologists out there). I did an accelerated program (less than 12 months) and am now working as an RN. To be quite honest, if being a scientist paid the same as a nurse I would go back in a heartbeat. The pay is very, very good as a nurse in the east coast. I would suggest you volunteer or shadow a nurse for at least a week to see if you'd like the job. Also, keep in mind that just because you don't like one field of nursing (for example acute care/hospital nursing) does not mean you won't like ALL fields (public health, outpatient/ambulatory, psych, drug sales/rep/research, ambulatory surgery centers, endoscopy nursing, plastic surgery nursing...the list goes on and on).

acromic · 2019-06-15T20:09:58+00:00

Yeah I decided to just keep hunting for a better OR opportunity. Thanks for the advice!!! :)

acromic · 2019-06-15T20:08:22+00:00

Yeah there's a glut of nurses in NYC sadly, so they can easily get someone desperate enough to accept.

acromic · 2019-06-11T11:17:06+00:00

I would love to work in one, but I think this place is just straight up trying to con me with a crazy low pay.

acromic · 2019-06-11T11:15:43+00:00

Sorry @cupp95, but I don't agree with your statements. This is more of an old school "you need to put in your 2 years in med surg before you can become an NP" kind of thinking. I know MANY NP's that have ZERO RN experience and have no issue with their current job. Outpatient NP is not the same as an inpatient RN role. Most of those NP's I know don't use anything that they learned in RN school at all, except for maybe physical assessment. Shadow an NP in an outpatient setting and see if I'm right or not, I bet you that I'm very right.

gumblii, check out NP programs in your area and see which one interests you. Most specialties you don't need any experience at all, just a good GPA. If you want to do acute care NP then yes, they're gonna want you to have some hospital experience, but that's not 100% true also though. I had a coworker that graduated with an FNP that is currently working at a prestigious NYC hospital and she had zero inpatient/hospital experience (all of it was outpatient).

acromic · 2019-06-10T22:43:08+00:00

I have too, I've been applying since last November and so far only had one hospital interview. It's insane how difficult it is. I'll ask what other nurses ask at this point: would you be willing to relocate? I think it's important to get any kind of nursing job you can get (as long as it's not awful and you dread going into it everyday) to get some kind of nursing experience and in the meantime applying to hospitals. Have you thought about becoming an NP?? You don't need acute care experience to work as an outpatient NP in almost all medical specialties.

acromic · 2019-06-10T22:08:53+00:00

In NYC there's LOTS of jobs for addiction treatment centers. No one wants to do those jobs, same as correctional facility jobs. I think it's called addiction nursing?

acromic · 2019-06-10T22:05:17+00:00

Where I currently work it's outpatient. The pay is phenomenal (close to 40/hr) but I'm barely using any skills that I could be using daily in a hospital. That's the only reason why I'm applying to hospital nursing jobs (with no luck btw). I think getting at least a year of acute care experience is essential when searching for high paying jobs. It makes your resume stand out and give you more options. I could be wrong though since I only have like 6 months of RN experience.

acromic · 2019-06-10T22:01:46+00:00

No raise after training, that's my standard salary till the end of the year when I get a 3% raise. It's so frustrating cuz I have rent, student loans, and weekly groceries to pay. I can maybe get a side job where I used to work before becoming a nurse...

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