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 wou

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.