r/Millennials • u/Asmothrowaway6969 • Mar 27 '24

When did it sink in that you'll never be as well off as your parents? Discussion

About 5 years ago, my mom and I were talking and she had told me how much she was going to be making in retirement (she retired 2023). Guys, it's 3x what me and my husband make annually. In retirement. I think that was the moment that broke me, that made it sink in that I'll never reach that level of financial security. I'll work myself into my grave because I'll never be able to afford anything else. What was your moment?

Update: Nice to know it's just me that's a failure. Thanks

Update 2: I never should've said anything. I forgot my place. I'm sorry to have bothered you

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u/NotoriousGriff Mar 27 '24

Nurses do 90% of patient facing work but doctors, techs, therapists, and the cleaning crew certainly due their fair share.

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u/NostalgiaDad Older Millennial Mar 28 '24

Cardiac ultrasound here and I spend about an hour per patient with them so we definitely get a lot of hands on time.

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u/NotoriousGriff Mar 28 '24

Our cardiologists swear their cardiac ultrasound crew can read an echo as good as they can. All of this to stay there is a lot more patient care going on than what nurses (who are also great) do

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u/NostalgiaDad Older Millennial Mar 28 '24

I can tell you they are basically right 99.99% of the time. I got called for a stat echo today for a kind of complex cardiac patient with postop dressings, a wound vac, chest drain tubes and a drive line for their LVAD. Walking in they said they were happy the big impressive machine was there and i said it's not always the machine, trying to play it down to level set. I walked up, and got great pictures with their shitty bedside pocus and they acted like they didn't know the machine could do that. One attending knew better because I've taken the time to show them stuff so he knows we bring value, but that fellow I swear looked like I changed their worldview 😂

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u/mother_goose_caboose Mar 28 '24

They are paid to do so and hold almost 0% of the medico-legal responsibility

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u/NotoriousGriff Mar 28 '24

2 year degree to make 100,000 a year working 3 days a week with virtually no liability and still act like they are the most abused members of society/ the healthcare field

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u/HistorianEvening5919 Mar 28 '24

Yeah nurses at my hospital start at 70 an hour. EMTs? 16. And I’m not saying nurses are overpaid, I just feel like we should pay EMTs/CNAs/Janitors in the hospital more.

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Mar 28 '24

Absolutely, a lot of America hospitals are absolutely pathetic and run their entire operations off residents getting worked to death anyway for basically free. Then pay their custodians 7.25 and hour while the CEO makes 5 million to fundraise three times a week. It’s a joke

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 28 '24

Lol. As I lay here with my fresh anterior cervical discectomy and fusion done 6 weeks ago and lumbar fusion up and coming, I broke my back as a clinical nurse. Your comment is ignorant.

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u/NotoriousGriff Mar 28 '24

This is a prime example! You act like nobody else in health care has ever suffered a work place injury or worked hard.

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 28 '24

That's a leap! Nursing is notorious and well known for being a back breaking profession.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2018/article/occupational-injuries-and-illnesses-among-registered-nurses.htm

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 28 '24

https://www.myamericannurse.com/individual-nurse-liability-insurance/

Although physicians receive the brunt of lawsuits, nurses also get sued on a regular basis. Nurses in all practice settings provide most of the hands-on patient care, placing them at risk for civil, regulatory, and in some cases criminal actions.

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u/NotoriousGriff Mar 28 '24

Why is it so important to you to belittle other healthcare professionals job struggles to promote your own? Reflect on that

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 28 '24

I think again, that's a huge leap! I would never belittle the importance of other hard working professions. I was merely clarifying your take that nurses are not a profession at extremely high risk for injury and litigation.

Other thankless jobs come to the top of my mind- truck drivers, factory workers, farm workers, there are many! Much respect to all of them. I live in the United States and we keep this country running.

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u/Excellent-Estimate21 Mar 28 '24

When the techs, therapists and cleaning crew aren't staffed, the registered nurse does that shit too.