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[layla2450]

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@Trinity11 wrote:

Recently read that Kelly Ripa makes 22 million for hosting "Kelly and Mark." Not only is she not often there but has most of the summer off. 😳

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OVERPAID for what she does.

[Allthingsgirly67]

Are you serious?! Teachers and nurses can get a job anywhere? Not true! As a former teacher we teachers give over 5000 “performances “ a year. We have to engage students and almost repeat the same spiel like a Broadway actor. Yes I’m a capitalist but I do think there is an imbalance. If one doesn’t perform their job as sees fit they get warned or terminated. But actors and athletes can bomb but still retain the money they make. I just don’t see how people like the Kardashians get paid for basically doing nothing. I mean they are just living in front of a camera and then heavily edited. It is partially our fault but still there are differences. I mean they provide entertainment but not “talented”.

[Allthingsgirly67]

I also would say an imbalance to me is CEO’s who receive bonuses, raises, and shares I. Stock even if the company is floundering. That to me is obscene.

[bikerbabe]

@occasionalrain

“Most of us could be nurses.”

Yeah. Good luck with that. 🤣

I agree not many can be a successful athlete or actor.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@layla2450 wrote:

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@Trinity11 wrote:

Recently read that Kelly Ripa makes 22 million for hosting "Kelly and Mark." Not only is she not often there but has most of the summer off. 😳

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OVERPAID for what she does.

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@layla2450   @Trinity11 

Kelly Ripa isn't getting paid for what she specifically  "does".    She gets paid based, in great part, on how SUCCESSFUL the show is, and what her contract with the network determines how much she will be paid.   It's not just because she sits in a chair talking. 

This happens in a lot of industries ... even doctors.  You go in with a tricky health problem and they know in 5 minutes what's wrong with you.  That doc doesn't get paid just for what they "do" .... it's also for what they KNOW.  

[jackiejenny]

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@bikerbabe wrote:
@occasionalrain

“Most of us could be nurses.”

Yeah. Good luck with that. 🤣

I agree not many can be a successful athlete or actor.

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Especially trauma nurses~~~

Like all doctors couldn't work in an emergency room, the same is true of nurses. 

It takes a certain special talent that not all possess. 

[occasionalrain]

My niece is a teacher in Colorado and regularly gets unsolicited job offers.

There is such a shortage of teachers that school districts are going to a four day week.

Hospitals are understaffed and paying substantial signing bonuses.

Few athletes make it to the professional level, and those who do, are an injury away from unemployment.

There are more actors than  parts. They can go months between  jobs and need a second job to pay their bills.

[just bee]

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@jackiejenny wrote:

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@bikerbabe wrote:
@occasionalrain

“Most of us could be nurses.”

Yeah. Good luck with that. 🤣

I agree not many can be a successful athlete or actor.

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Especially trauma nurses~~~

Like all doctors couldn't work in an emergency room, the same is true of nurses. 

It takes a certain special talent that not all possess. 

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@jackiejenny 

Good point.  I'm currently going through cancer treatment at my hospital's Cancer Center.  When the RNs there find out I'm a psychiatric nurse, they all say the same thing.

That's one job they couldn't do.

[bikerbabe]

@occasionalrain

Hospitals are understaffed for a reason. Good luck with “most of us can be nurses.”

Going to nursing school is not the same as surviving WORKING as a hospital nurse. Try working ICU, better yet, Covid ICU , for a couple of years then get back to me.

Add in getting assaulted by patients and family members to make things interesting.

Often no breaks or lunch for 12 1/2 hours and you’re lucky to use the bathroom once.

You’re not allowed to have any water or food with you except in the break room that you never see.

Plenty of jobs available isn’t the same as “anyone can do it with some college”.

Nurses are leaving the profession for a reason.

I left at the end of the year and I’m currently only doing volunteer work.

[just bee]

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@bikerbabe wrote:
@occasionalrain

Hospitals are understaffed for a reason. Good luck with “most of us can be nurses.”

Going to nursing school is not the same as surviving WORKING as a hospital nurse. Try working ICU, better yet, Covid ICU , for a couple of years then get back to me.

Add in getting assaulted by patients and family members to make things interesting.

Often no breaks or lunch for 12 1/2 hours and you’re lucky to use the bathroom once.

You’re not allowed to have any water or food with you except in the break room that you never see.

Plenty of jobs available isn’t the same as “anyone can do it with some college”.

Nurses are leaving the profession for a reason.

I left at the end of the year and I’m currently only doing volunteer work.

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@bikerbabe 

We're short-staffed in psych because so many of the staff who have been attacked by patients are recuperating.

Takes time for broken bones to heal.