Healthcare Work

[Lemur]

I'm surprised there is not a a good deal of healthcare workers on the forum. Unless I am not seeing it, the majority seem to be tech related.

A traveling nurse, for instance, seems like the perfect ERE job. You keep the base necessities in a suitcase, travel place to place on per diem, make more money than a regular nurse through those contracts (and most RNs make above the median U.S. income), and be done in your 5-10 years for all-out FI. Not to mention this is not a job that is susceptible to A.I. and with how demographics are trending in most developed countries (too many old, not enough young), there will be a growing demand for this work in the 21st century. The cost of a nursing license and education can be done at the community college level as well.

Anyone else in this field can post more? One thought I have is that as tech winds down hiring entry-level workers (due to AI replacement and increased offshoring), this field could potentially be the next go-to for FI seekers. Maybe that is a prediction.

[chenda]

A traveling nurse, for instance, seems like the perfect ERE job.

I have often thought the same, although its not a job which has ever appealed to me. There was a forum member called Bingeworker who spent his entire career semi-retired as a part-time/contract nurse. Canadian I believe. There may be ancillary non-patient treating careers in medicine which would offer similar flexibility and benefits.

[zbigi]

It may have something to do that ERE is most appealing to INTJs, who also happen to more often be engineers rather than nurses.

[theanimal]

@classical_liberal went back to school in his early 30s to become a nurse and did that before retiring. @mooretrees and @Jin+Guice work in healthcare for hospitals. There is also @frugaldoc, who is an active duty doctor for the Navy. I'm sure there are others I'm missing.

For anyone looking for extra motivation, ERE city North's local hospital has had an ongoing signing bonus offer of $80k for the past few years.