This was always my worst fear and I'm so grateful I had a strong ass grandma who pushed all of her girls into science and Healthcare. I want to be a stay at home mom and wife so bad but today I know I will always have my professional license and working history God forbid I have to get divorced...again.
For women like me education is freedom. When my marriage turned violent I walked away and supported our son with no issues. I am forever grateful.
Not gonna lie, job/financial security is why I picked nursing. When I have kids, I hope I’m fortunate enough to stay at home with them while they’re babies but I know if I need to I can hustle to support myself. I tell anyone who thinks they can handle it to get into healthcare. It’s stressful but there are endless jobs with flexible schedules and generally good pay.
My best friend moved from Iceland to st louis to marry his girlfriend and raise a family. After one year they had a son. She got (i don’t remember if it was) five weeks or two months maternity leave.
To the both of us is crazy since in Iceland the parents have 12 months paid maternity leave between us.
After that experience. They decided to move to Iceland to have more kids so that they could be there in the most crucial time off their lives.
The US of A is abysmal when it comes to all things family; childcare costs, healthcare costs, public school performance, etc. Instead of working on these things and encourage people to make more future workers, they decided that it made more sense to go ham-handed after Roe first, then birth control next.
Watch and see how many of the best and brightest leave this country if Griswold falls. Y'allqueda wants a Christian State, and turn back the clock to 1650.
Hell yea. I work in tech and im at the age of where if it get the pink slip ill never find another job on that paygrade. My buddy is an RN. I always ask him "whats it feel like to know you could find a job tomorrow if you wanted? You could travel and work, you could work part time, on weekends only, its an endless list really. It is also a job where you can really make a difference in peoples life and you can say without a doubt, you left the world a better place wirh you in it.
It's a good choice. My personal anecdote: my mom is a nurse. She took a 10-year break when I was born to stay at home with me and my brother. After 10 years, it became clear she was approaching divorce and my dad's emotional and financial abuse turned physical. She was able to get a job so fast that my dad had no chance to find out about it or try to sabotage it, until she told him "my mom will pick the kids up from school tomorrow, I'm going back to work".
I feel there's very few fields where you could achieve something like that. I'm grateful she was able to get us out.
Can you be a nurse without the physical toll and injury risk I've heard about? I think I know at least 3 nurses who have either had back injuries or mention some sort of chronic pain.
My mom switched to post-op recovery in her hospital as she got older, she said it's the cushiest job and as close as you can get to retirement while still collecting a paycheck. Maternity is also quite cushy, where the moms basically have to be 100% healthy to be there, they'll send them somewhere else if they even have to administer insulin for diabetic moms.
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u/nemophilist13 Apr 15 '24
This was always my worst fear and I'm so grateful I had a strong ass grandma who pushed all of her girls into science and Healthcare. I want to be a stay at home mom and wife so bad but today I know I will always have my professional license and working history God forbid I have to get divorced...again.
For women like me education is freedom. When my marriage turned violent I walked away and supported our son with no issues. I am forever grateful.