After 5 years of not knowing what too do..

[ReFaN]

Originally Posted by tater

A buddy of mine worked for the natural history museum for years (after being in the Coast Guard) and decided to go to nursing school. He's now making good money, and is happier in his work (surrounded by women ).

Good luck!

Hehe, Nurses in sweden doesent earn that much, lots of more proffesions wich you need almost 0% Education wich you can make more with

[tater]

Originally Posted by ReFaN

Hehe, Nurses in sweden doesent earn that much, lots of more proffesions wich you need almost 0% Education wich you can make more with

You can move anyplace you like in the US as a nurse and get a good job since we are critically short of nurses. (actually, a few of my wife's favorite scrub nurses are actually MDs from the former Soviet Union who didn't feel like redoing a Residency to be MDs here in the US—one is a great nurse to have in her OR since the guy is actually also a urologist so he has the instrument ready for her before she even asks )

My friend started making $60,000/year straight out of nursing school (a "plain" RN). He runs a shift now I think, and is making more. Nurse anesthetists can make as much as many docs, too.

[ReFaN]

Originally Posted by tater

You can move anyplace you like in the US as a nurse and get a good job since we are critically short of nurses. (actually, a few of my wife's favorite scrub nurses are actually MDs from the former Soviet Union who didn't feel like redoing a Residency to be MDs here in the US—one is a great nurse to have in her OR since the guy is actually also a urologist so he has the instrument ready for her before she even asks )

My friend started making $60,000/year straight out of nursing school (a "plain" RN). He runs a shift now I think, and is making more. Nurse anesthetists can make as much as many docs, too.

My mom earns around 33.000$ a year here in sweden, He earns almost 100% as much as her.

BUT, im not sure what benefits he gets, my mother gets Insurance, Pension and healthcare and the likes.

[tater]

Originally Posted by ReFaN

My mom earns around 33.000$ a year here in sweden, He earns almost 100% as much as her.

BUT, im not sure what benefits he gets, my mother gets Insurance, Pension and healthcare and the likes.

Yep, all that, too. Full insurance, and they have some sort of retirement plan at the U.

My wife pays non-RN medical assistants well over 30k here, and New Mexico is a cheap state to live in. In a coastal place (NYC, or other places with "european" costs of living) it would be higher.

[ReFaN]

Originally Posted by tater

Yep, all that, too. Full insurance, and they have some sort of retirement plan at the U.

My wife pays non-RN medical assistants well over 30k here, and New Mexico is a cheap state to live in. In a coastal place (NYC, or other places with "european" costs of living) it would be higher.

Then i must tell her to ask for a raise :p

[AVGWarhawk]

Good luck! My sister and sister-in-law are RN's. I have a friend finishing up her last semester at GW University nursing school.