Hillbilly Deluxe
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I didn't read all the replies but one of the biggest issues I see with your daughter is where she's living. The pay she's receiving is not very good.
My wife made big bucks as an RN in one of the cities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area region. She retired 4 years ago and was making $97/hr plus benefits. Wages have increased significantly since then. Our daugher-in-law, also an RN just took a new full-time RN position that pays her $217k per year.
Have your daughter find a nice boyfriend with a good education and high income earning potential and move with her to a big city somewhere so they can get themselves started.
Scott
My daughter will be working in what many call the Medical Mecca of the United States. No, it's not Rochester MN or Johns Hopkins, but another area where the medical research and provisions are greater IMO and many others, mainly the doctors, nurses, RTs, PT, OTs and others who work in this area. The pay is not what this area is known for, it's the treatments, and decades of reputation for saving lives, transplants, trauma service and orthopaedics.
In fact, my daughter's life was saved at the adjoining hospital where she will be working. She spent 180 days in the hospital in 2021, about 4 months on a ventilator herself, 4+ months on dialysis, had 25+ blood transfusions, several cocktails of chemo-type infusions to weaken her immune system to combat 5+ months of undiagnosed auto-immune diseases. The missed diagnoses were most likely due to the blinders everyone seemed to have on because of the chinese virus warfare in 2020-2021. Anyway.... she was able to leave the hospital around Veterans Day 2021, was doing Crossfit in May 2022, doing some baby-sitting jobs during that time through the summer and started back to college in August 2022. Since August 2022, she's working a part-time job, done 1-2 days a week of hospital clinicals (drive 50-90 minutes one-way to a hospital at 5 am, work 12+ hours at the hospital, drive back), go to class a couple days a week, study and find time to rest.
She will be working at the facility where she wants to work. She knows she has to put in the first year, get more certificates and try to move into the higher-paying positions that she wants. She says she wants to be in NICU. I think everyone should be grateful that there's people out there that have the desire to want to do these things. I can't imagine what kind of mindset it takes to be able to skillfully treat sick babies and do it for a living.
Let me let many of you in on a secret - nobody that grew up in the South or most anywhere else wants to move up north, especially to NYC, anywhere in MA, DC, CT, NJ, DE, IL or anywhere in CA, especially the Bay Area. We see and hear what's there. And I know, most of the people that want to and do live in those areas don't and generally can't live where I do - where there's no street lights.