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My SO is a healthcare worker as well, she just graduated 2 years ago and has major regrets about her decision. She'd leave and try and do something else but she
by m_ke 4y ago
My SO is a healthcare worker as well, she just graduated 2 years ago and has major regrets about her decision. She'd leave and try and do something else but she has mid 6 figure debt, to make things worse she was rear-ended her last year of school and has back issues that make it hard for her to handle the 12 hours shifts.
She's looking to switch jobs now and her first offer expected her to travel to locations deep in queens, manhattan and brooklyn, seeing on average 50 patients a day. She currently works at one of the largest hospital chains in NY and is now negotiating an offer from the other largest chain, initially she was told to not worry about salary and that they'd be able to match her previous offer, then HR called her and told her she had 1 and not 2 years of experience so the best offer they can offer her is lower than expected, she said she wouldn't be able to do it so the HR people went to check again to see what they can do and it turns out they called up the hospital that my SO works at now and checked their pay tiers and said they can only match the number that they were told. The new position was close to where we live so she considered taking it anyways but they just called her again and asked her if she'd be willing to travel to other locations multiple times a week to help fill in gaps (but weren't even able to tell her which locations before accepting the offer).
TLDR: don't let your friends and family go into healthcare