Hey! I finished my nursing school about 12 years ago and worked on a ICU for about two years after nursing school as a RN.
Moved to a different country and now I am working at a facility for disabled people.
I work only nightshift and we have to be awake all night in case emergency but honestly, I never had an emergency. My clients sleep all night.
My base income is very high and in addition I get nightshift bonus, so I am getting a lot of money that isn’t taxed at the end of the month either because in this country shift differential (night, sundays, holidays) isn’t taxed.
I don’t know I am doing this since two years and if I’d lay down on a couch no one would ever know.
Should I keep going or say something? My Nightshift coworkers don’t do anything either but they just keep quiet. And if I am honest I think the dayshift doesn’t do a lot either. Our clients really dont need a lot of assist… it’s kind of weird getting paid for this job.
When I was trying towards being an airline pilot it was said that the job is 99% boredom followed by 1% of sheer terror. Being a firefighter or your job sounds similar, with the hope of boring shifts, but the understanding when expertise is needed it must be available. The boredom aspect didn’t work with my brain so I deal with computers these days.