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<blockquote data-quote="Dirkus" data-source="post: 1043762" data-attributes="member: 11445"><p>I can vouch for that - I'm an RN.</p><p></p><p>There's hordes of Philippinos, British, Irish, even Canadian - and yes, even German nurses in the system. But yes, you would have to be able to hack the female-dominated workplace - which - being a more 'red-pill inclined guy' lately is absolutely no shy feat with some of the conversations I must bear witness to on a daily basis. That means you 'get with the program', bite your tongue more often than not, and maintain professionalism (aka political correctness). Hell, in the latest batch of Med graduates coming out from a certain Uni here there was more women coming through than men. I'm not even 2 years post-grad and have already thought about my life after nursing. And yes, paramedics is an option either to begin with or if you have prior experience in Emergency or Critical Care nursing as a 1 year bridging course.</p><p></p><p>Or you could get into more evenly based gender ratios: namely in Emergency nursing (what I'm about to do) Intensive Care or Mental Health nursing; which is basically reading the paper, doing a few notes - and giving out meds. By all accounts a very cushy job and is simply night and day compared to the task oriented world of general nursing and something I may consider. Regardless, we all get paid the same - a grad RN in WA starts at $62k AUD PA (not including penalty rates) and if you play the game and move up the ladder senior nurses can earn upwards of 120-140k PA if you're willing to work nights, weekends etc. for those penalties. </p><p></p><p>But that's looking at a 5-10 year commitment post-grad to get anywhere near that (and the bachelor's degree alone is 3 years and with a LOT of unpaid work experience and jumping through hoops). However, in some ways I should be discouraging internationals coming here as basically half of all local graduates coming out now can't find their first job and are left scratching their heads after working their butts off over 3 years. How? Why? Cash grabbing universities not capping their numbers with how many students they take (unlike Medicine). Thus, we have a glut of grads who can't get their first job - much like Teaching (though probably not quite as bad as there's more diversity of areas you can work in with nursing). Then you get said mentioned Phillippinas, Irish etc swooping those 'experience required' positions which the grads are ineligible for anyway.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, GL to ya OP.</p><p></p><p>Also Leonard, what is THOT? :dodgy:</p><p></p><p>I've thought about community nursing, but at the moment I've found a good middle ground in the sticks of WA with subsidised accomodation, and can save most of my money - albeit tenable women in the sticks is even MORE scarce than the wasteland that is Perth <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> </p><p></p><p>Pros and cons, pros and cons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dirkus, post: 1043762, member: 11445"] I can vouch for that - I'm an RN. There's hordes of Philippinos, British, Irish, even Canadian - and yes, even German nurses in the system. But yes, you would have to be able to hack the female-dominated workplace - which - being a more 'red-pill inclined guy' lately is absolutely no shy feat with some of the conversations I must bear witness to on a daily basis. That means you 'get with the program', bite your tongue more often than not, and maintain professionalism (aka political correctness). Hell, in the latest batch of Med graduates coming out from a certain Uni here there was more women coming through than men. I'm not even 2 years post-grad and have already thought about my life after nursing. And yes, paramedics is an option either to begin with or if you have prior experience in Emergency or Critical Care nursing as a 1 year bridging course. Or you could get into more evenly based gender ratios: namely in Emergency nursing (what I'm about to do) Intensive Care or Mental Health nursing; which is basically reading the paper, doing a few notes - and giving out meds. By all accounts a very cushy job and is simply night and day compared to the task oriented world of general nursing and something I may consider. Regardless, we all get paid the same - a grad RN in WA starts at $62k AUD PA (not including penalty rates) and if you play the game and move up the ladder senior nurses can earn upwards of 120-140k PA if you're willing to work nights, weekends etc. for those penalties. But that's looking at a 5-10 year commitment post-grad to get anywhere near that (and the bachelor's degree alone is 3 years and with a LOT of unpaid work experience and jumping through hoops). However, in some ways I should be discouraging internationals coming here as basically half of all local graduates coming out now can't find their first job and are left scratching their heads after working their butts off over 3 years. How? Why? Cash grabbing universities not capping their numbers with how many students they take (unlike Medicine). Thus, we have a glut of grads who can't get their first job - much like Teaching (though probably not quite as bad as there's more diversity of areas you can work in with nursing). Then you get said mentioned Phillippinas, Irish etc swooping those 'experience required' positions which the grads are ineligible for anyway. Anyway, GL to ya OP. Also Leonard, what is THOT? :dodgy: I've thought about community nursing, but at the moment I've found a good middle ground in the sticks of WA with subsidised accomodation, and can save most of my money - albeit tenable women in the sticks is even MORE scarce than the wasteland that is Perth :rolleyes: Pros and cons, pros and cons. [/QUOTE]
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