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That analysis ignores people who get trained but just don’t want to do the job for whatever amount of money. They’d be happy to take less money just to not do

• hellotheretoday 3y ago
  Classic “every job is equivalent to my office job” kind of analysis. “I couldn’t possibly fathom the idea that if a job had a very comfortable wage it still wouldn’t be worth doing because my frame of reference is moving between various offices for meetings and occasionally checking my emails.” When I worked inpatient psychiatry we were very underpaid and constantly understaffed. Later in my career when I was involved in the admin side of things we did increase pay a bit which helped but we had a kind of cynical joke that even if we could pay 6 figures to the entry level direct care staff we’d still have staffing issues. At the end of the day it’s a job where you have constant exposure to bodily fluids, loud noise, and sudden violence. It was often chaotic; staff quitting on day 1 was so common that we eventually made it policy to do a facility walkthrough during interviews so that people were well aware of what job entailed so we’d waste less money on training. Even then it still happened with some regularity.