It was once an idea that if you got into retail sales, you could work your way to rasises, bonuses, and promotions that would make you a considerable amount of money, as well as being able to stay a while at the job. Now? The pay sucks, the work is nowhere carries no glamour or bonuses, and anybody who can last more than a year or two is in danger of being laid off.

Are there any other jobs that went in that route? What are your experiences?

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Nursing is still feeling the effects of 50 years ago, when graduating they told you half wouldn’t be able to be employed since the Market was oversaturated.

    However the nursing shortages today are largely artificial or the result of doctors being unrelenting egotistical assholes. Travel nurses and labor pools where once the day of picking up shifts where needed. But now a ton of RNs will quit their employment at a hospital, then become a traveler, staffed at that same hospital for 3 months and make almost a year’s wages, then move on to the next hospital. Rinse repeat

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      11 hours ago

      i dont think its the MDs fault but the hospital systems, and now PE and teledoc companies are snatching up those doctors.