I’m a nurse and oversaw a doctor checking his bank statements: his salary is a bit more than twice what I earn.

This is not a particularly productive doctor, if you listen to several doctors and nurses where I work at. Just today I overheard a group of 3 female doctors ranting about him and how all he does is sitting and playing with his phone, always redirecting us nurses to talk to the other doctors. I was surprised, because I never expected to find so much drama between doctors, them being much more educated than nurses and I never expected doctors, specially female doctors, to use that kind of language.

This lazy doctor earns more than double my salary. It’s depressing.

But I also feel like a loser, because even those ranting doctors earn more than twice what I do… and they get to sit for longer than I do.

Regretting my life choices.

Maybe the sane choice here would be to study or to get a certification that means a higher salary?

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    38•2 months ago

    How does anyone accept executives making 100x or more the salary of everyone else?

    Or youtubers, or twitch streamers making bank?

    • Fonzie!
      5•2 months ago

      Okay that’s different

      A MD with 7+ years of education and loads of debt earning more than a nurse with far less education and debt is fair.

      An exec with barely any education, debt or importance earning 10× or more what the actual workers do is not fair.

      I don’t deal with that, but I also can’t fix it without unwrenching the fabric of our society and I’m going to need a lot more people for that.

      • @Oxymoron
        2•2 months ago

        Steady on. You’re starting to sound like a dirty communist. ;)

        • Fonzie!
          1•2 months ago

          You know what? Maybe some sprinkles of communism in our capitalism aren’t all that bad, anymore.

    • dream_weasel
      4•2 months ago

      This is a little different. Whereas executives might not have any requirement on education or performance, in the US at least you’ve got 6 years education And 2 years residency to become an MD. It is still crazy money considering I’ve got 11 years in a PhD with an actual contribution to a field, but not insane compared to a 4 year degree or less.

    • Maeve
      1•2 months ago

      I’m okay with YouTubers getting paid. A lot of them put his of thought and work into their videos without earning anything, before they do. And yt never paid any of them fairly. What I’m not ok with is it’s endless ads and creators not being fairly compensated. Hence why I donate what I can, when I can, to creators I use. I also wish invidious instance operators were easier to donate to, but I see why they aren’t.

      • @breadsmasherEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        Sure. But my reply was specifically to OP about doctors being paid more than nurses for doing “less work”.