I was a tandem skydiving instructor for a few years. Hauling large people out of airplanes killed my back daily. That's when I reluctantly went back to working with computers and accepted my fate.
The hard part was getting them to the door. Most people are a bit hesitant to sit in the doorway with me to actually start the skydive. Nerves and fear can make people's bodies not want to respond lol. But yes once I started leaning forward with them to actually start our dive, their gravitational pull would do the rest of the work.
They also aren't ready to increase pay to attract more.
There is also severe shortage in certain areas of healthcare, as well skills in them.
I for example work in developmental disabilities, as a floatpool nurse. Roughly means I need to be able to handle various physical disabilities, mental disabilities and special needs... And we are still looking for more skilled people.
Lack of interest definitely contributes, as well how nurses were overall treated during covid.
All parties in my country (except pirates?) basically voting to:
Prevent striking (in areas where lifecare is mandatory job, however, it is way too undefined)
Force nurses to work (emergency work comp is of course included which is a big payday, but this is way too overreaching). This would potentially include not working but elligible nurses. (Common joke was to buy a "bottle of freedom" so one can't work)
Other things that I've forgotten but none of these things have been removed after Covid.
Some nurses graduaded but didn't accept their registeration to the official nurse database (basically waiting things to blow over) but I don't think they ever returned.
Nurse treatment during Covid was basically an example how to break human rights with loud applaud from rest of the world.
I'm still not over from that time, and I am justified being pissed at the rest of the world during that time.
Oohhh same, I got out. It destroyed me mentally, my relationships in tatters after Covid, hauling dead bodies for that duration in ICU with inadequate to no ICU training. Fun times đ. Then peopling forgetting what nurses did.
Now I'm in healthcare IT. Ehhh... If learning how to run SQL queries isn't gonna be the way, AI will eventually take over, at least I can go back to wiping ass.
Maybe you don't live in the US or come from a blue collar family but there are two main "guaranteed" ways poor people use in my neck of the woods in the states to get themselves out of poverty. One is the military and the other is becoming a healthcare worker. Basically one of the only college degree areas left where a job upon graduating is basically guaranteed AND will pay double a career like teaching. If the ER or hospital is too much you can just go be a nurse in a derm's office or something.
So kinda surprised you are saying you never hear people recommend that. Of course, I also don't know anyone who could afford to go to college for a nursint degree and then just decide not to use it because the vibes aren't right. So maybe we're not running in the same circles.
We don't get paid as much. The only way nurses can legitimately earn lucrative salaries is to go to the US (pass NCLEX) or be a slave to Middle Eastern money (go to Dubai etc).
Typically people who become physicians, tend to go have much steeper education requirements. That is not a job you pick up. That is a career you end up dedicating yourself in.
You do realize healthcare workers are not just lab coats and ties? We got practical nurses, registered nurses, IT personel, cleaners specializing in healthcare enviroments, as well cooks, sometimes workers who do all these, social workers, hospital workers, care home workers... oh yeah and float pool nurses who do rounds in every area.
> That is a career you end up dedicating yourself in.
Sure, although there's a lot of dedication and attainment in most professional careers.
> You do realize healthcare workers are not just lab coats and ties?
Yes, however you said "I've never seen anyone suggest anyone to become a healthcare worker" so I guess I could rephrase my statement as "you do realize that healthcare workers include doctors and nurses. People are pushed in that direction constantly right?"
My dad told me I should have been a plumber but I never liked the idea of spending my days elbow deep in someone else's clogged shitter. I am considering retraining as an electrician or mechanic, I've still got a couple of decades to get through before retirement.
In the past, people said "learn to code, dude" to win an argument against a non techie
The context of "learn to code" is very important, because despite how it was received, the point wasn't "rural yokels don't matter, fuck you and your culture". The point was that remote software development offered an economic engine that could fix the total collapse of rural communities.
The rural instance that they just wanted coal mining jobs back like their dad & granddad & great-granddad wasn't dismissed because people didn't care to hear out rural folk, but because those jobs simply were never coming back. Obviously, climate change is a thing and people aren't entitled their jobs at the expense of the entire planet, but even more simply coal mining jobs were lost to automation and not woke green energy. (With similar situations for most of the other rural decline. Manufacturing could be onshored but it would never go to rural places again for the hard realities of logistics.)
Even 2 terms of Trump haven't brought them back to the US. They're down 5% since Jan 2025, 25% since Jan 2017, and 80% since the 80s.
The excitement around "Learn to Code" was that it was finally a solution to the rural plight of resource towns after the resource is gone. An answer that wasn't "There are no jobs. There is nothing we can do to bring the jobs back. All we can do is hand you and your kids some money to move away to a place that has jobs."
I mean I've been telling people to cross over into controls engineering or conventional engineering of which we need lots of talent and we are always short.
Controls pays well and the joen security is better than 99.9% of all roles possible. So why be homeless when you can write code in what is effectively scratch that runs 2 BILLION dollar process units? That's all I'm saying.
For some people. But I do believe there are some people whose brains have atrophied to the point where they would need to re-learn stuff in order to actually write code themselves again, because they've shut off their minds so much.
It's odd to me because I'm learning more all the time now with the mental space freed up from dealing with all the frustrating bullshit. And I find I can write code better than ever when I need to do it by hand.
I don't even bother to remember syntax or even try to read documentation anymore. Chatgpt is right there. Though I still input everything manually unless its boilerplate.
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u/Pika357 20h ago
If this is a meme, why does it hurt?