Daycare costs are so expensive but at the same time I have to admit I couldn’t manage a room full of toddlers all day long. Those (generally) ladies don’t make nearly enough to be the angels they are.
EMT’s, Paramedics, Nurses for the most part, basically anyone in Healthcare that isn’t a specialist surgeon. Elder care folks deserve more too. Teachers should be paid better too.
Local news journalists. Some are paid the same as a fast food worker, and they are covering essential daily news events for entire cities, and regions.
Sanitation especially at hospitals. They have to clean up all kinds of biohazards and dangerous drugs but get paid only a dollar or so above minimum wage. Imagine getting paid $13 to clean blood and shit off the ceiling.
My wife is a school teacher (specials, k-12) and puts in 60-80 hours a week, some weeks more. In the summer it’s stilll 20-30hrs a week for those ~7 weeks “off”. She makes 1/4 of what I do as a corporate remote worker putting in a light 30 in my home office. I have a lot invested in my career, there are weeks I work like she does. But not many, and sweating out a corporate urgency on a Zoom call is a lot different than managing kids, parents, and administration face-to-face.
Honestly, janitor work. You gotta clean up after a kid throws up, a father shits next to the toilet, and the mother waiting for everybody to get done so she can get back to shopping and go home.
Special education teachers. Especially teachers doing behavior units or high incident disabilities people forget they exist and often they’re the ones with the hardest kids.
Aircraft mechanics. To have so many lives depending you doing your job correctly and then to see the wages… very akin to the EMT/first responders conversation.
Basically any job deemed as “essential” during the pandemic- teachers, EMT’s, most health care workers, DSP’s, the list goes on. Then it got subjective. Myself, as a hairstylist- never felt so belittled ever as a service provider. It changed the whole scope of what we do being luxury vs necessity. It made me quit hair.
Assisted living/in home care giving (not private practice) memory care, basically anything to do with the elderly. I did it for a year and while it was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done, it also broke me over that year in a ton of different ways. All for $12.50/hr (This was like 2011, but still was miserable compensation even then) and the responsibility over roughly 60 people’s lives and we’ll being at any given moment, generally with maybe 3-4 other people, and that was “adequately staffed”
Anyone who does that job is an absolute selfless hero in my book, because there is no good outcome or “saving the day”. Doctors, EMS, etc can potentially save people. Caregivers.. its always just a matter of time, no matter what. The limited, fleeting bonds you could form with people at the end of their lives, the stories, the ramblings from a better time…these experiences could range from days to weeks to months, and surely a few years, but they were always inevitably ended. No happy endings, other than the morbid peace of seeing someone suffering pass in their sleep, rather than a fall or hospice care.
Cart pusher. They have to do it in every single weather. They get hit by cars or almost do. Customers are hella inconsiderate when it comes to putting the cart away when they’re done with it… The list goes on. I feel for cart pushers.
At this point, in the US if you compare the wages of 1970s n today – most jobs are criminally underpaid by 70s standards. Not all of course especially upper management.
School Bus Drivers. For close to minimum wage, they have to safely drive a large vehicle on roads full of bad drivers and inclement weather, while also supervising up to 84 students at the same time. Adding onto that, they also need to perform lengthy vehicle inspections and cleaning before beginning their route, and this is often unpaid!
Pretty much any job that has the purpose to care for humans or their wellbeing is largely underpaid. Jobs that have the purpose to make rich people richer are highly overpaid. No, the system is alright, sure.
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Nurses… In some countries they work so hard but payment is not enough :c
teaching
EMT
Nurses & healthcare aides bc of its long hours duty, emotional labor, life-or-death responsibility, but salaries don’t always reflect it.
EMTs and paramedics like its actually insane
Teachers
teachers, public workers, nurses, anyone whose pay is less than $10 an hour
Senior care providers
Health care workers. That shit should be illegal.
Teachers… they’re basically shaping the entire future and still gotta buy their own classroom supplies
Social workers. The required education and the pay scales just don’t math.
Veterinary nurses
Daycare costs are so expensive but at the same time I have to admit I couldn’t manage a room full of toddlers all day long. Those (generally) ladies don’t make nearly enough to be the angels they are.
“Carers”. Both kids and adults. So daycare, home health aides, etc
Customer Service in general. It destroys your soul.
Every job that pays lower than a living wage.
Everyone deserves a living wage.
EMT’s, Paramedics, Nurses for the most part, basically anyone in Healthcare that isn’t a specialist surgeon. Elder care folks deserve more too. Teachers should be paid better too.
Pretty much all except CEOs
Local news journalists. Some are paid the same as a fast food worker, and they are covering essential daily news events for entire cities, and regions.
CNAs and Paramedics
Currently…damned near all of them…
Anybody who is the underpinning of our society; medical, service, sanitation, teaching, etc.
Public service workers.
General practitioners MDs. Nobody wants to do it although primary care is backbone of any reasonable healthcare system
CNAs at nursing homes.
EMT & Teachers
Social Workers
Cooks
Pharmacy technicians. We depend on them to prepare medicines
Resident doctors. They work over 15 hour shifts doing surgery and get paid 65-80k
Caregiver in a nursing home.
Vet tech!
Teachers, CNAs, paramedics!
Caregivers!
CNAs. You have better pay and work environment at freaking McDonald’s. I’m baffled by how they can even fill any positions at all.
Pharmacy technicians are overworked and underpaid.
Sanitation especially at hospitals. They have to clean up all kinds of biohazards and dangerous drugs but get paid only a dollar or so above minimum wage. Imagine getting paid $13 to clean blood and shit off the ceiling.
Home healthcare
Every job that’s not keeping up with the cost of living.
If you’re working a full time job, you shouldn’t be sinking in debt trying to afford basic necessities.
Elderly care, you have to literally wipe butts and change diapers for 18.50 hour.
Most of them, it seems like
All of themMy wife is a school teacher (specials, k-12) and puts in 60-80 hours a week, some weeks more. In the summer it’s stilll 20-30hrs a week for those ~7 weeks “off”. She makes 1/4 of what I do as a corporate remote worker putting in a light 30 in my home office. I have a lot invested in my career, there are weeks I work like she does. But not many, and sweating out a corporate urgency on a Zoom call is a lot different than managing kids, parents, and administration face-to-face.
We massively under-pay teachers.
Air traffic controllers
Customer service agents. There is no limit to the amount of abuse they receive.
Honestly, janitor work. You gotta clean up after a kid throws up, a father shits next to the toilet, and the mother waiting for everybody to get done so she can get back to shopping and go home.
Special education teachers. Especially teachers doing behavior units or high incident disabilities people forget they exist and often they’re the ones with the hardest kids.
Vet techs. I am a vet and the techs are horribly under paid. McDonald’s burger flippers make more in many cases.
Already mentioned but EMTs and paramedics
literally anyone making under like 40-50k a year rn
Public defenders.
Aircraft mechanics. To have so many lives depending you doing your job correctly and then to see the wages… very akin to the EMT/first responders conversation.
Basically any job deemed as “essential” during the pandemic- teachers, EMT’s, most health care workers, DSP’s, the list goes on. Then it got subjective. Myself, as a hairstylist- never felt so belittled ever as a service provider. It changed the whole scope of what we do being luxury vs necessity. It made me quit hair.
Hitmen. There’s always amateur ready to bump someone off for like $5K.
Caretakers for the elderly and mentally ill
Assisted living/in home care giving (not private practice) memory care, basically anything to do with the elderly. I did it for a year and while it was the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done, it also broke me over that year in a ton of different ways. All for $12.50/hr (This was like 2011, but still was miserable compensation even then) and the responsibility over roughly 60 people’s lives and we’ll being at any given moment, generally with maybe 3-4 other people, and that was “adequately staffed”
Anyone who does that job is an absolute selfless hero in my book, because there is no good outcome or “saving the day”. Doctors, EMS, etc can potentially save people. Caregivers.. its always just a matter of time, no matter what. The limited, fleeting bonds you could form with people at the end of their lives, the stories, the ramblings from a better time…these experiences could range from days to weeks to months, and surely a few years, but they were always inevitably ended. No happy endings, other than the morbid peace of seeing someone suffering pass in their sleep, rather than a fall or hospice care.
Cart pusher. They have to do it in every single weather. They get hit by cars or almost do. Customers are hella inconsiderate when it comes to putting the cart away when they’re done with it… The list goes on. I feel for cart pushers.
At this point, in the US if you compare the wages of 1970s n today – most jobs are criminally underpaid by 70s standards. Not all of course especially upper management.
School Bus Drivers. For close to minimum wage, they have to safely drive a large vehicle on roads full of bad drivers and inclement weather, while also supervising up to 84 students at the same time. Adding onto that, they also need to perform lengthy vehicle inspections and cleaning before beginning their route, and this is often unpaid!
Lets be real. 90% of jobs are under paid.
Teachers, janitors, service jobs, nurses, delivery workers. Name a job, its probably underpaid.
All non CEO jobs, really.
Anything that actually benefits society
Veterinary professionals
Pharmacy technicians
Pretty much any job that has the purpose to care for humans or their wellbeing is largely underpaid. Jobs that have the purpose to make rich people richer are highly overpaid. No, the system is alright, sure.