That's the frustration. We and nurses do something that a great many people "could" learn to do but choose not to because the job itself sucks. Not coincidentally, we are also the two specific jobs that were targeted by the H1 visa program signed into law by George H.W. Bush in 1990. As it originally existed, there was a special H-1A visa for nurses and an H-1B nominally targeted at all kinds of white collar worker, but in practice really targets IT.
When some hospital board member says "there's a shortage of nurses", they leave out the other part: "there's a shortage of nurses who will get puked on and verbally abused by patients for $40k/year".
When Mark Zuckerberg says "there are not enough good programmers", what he really means is "there are a not enough good programmers who will work 60 hour weeks for $150k in a Bay Area suburb where a 1,300 sqft suburban condo costs $2M".
I'm glad I got what I could out of this profession and started investing before the post-pandemic job market reduced us from "middle class" to "lower middle class". So far since 2018, I've managed to turn $20k into $1.4M by running my portfolio like Peter Lynch if Peter Lynch had experience in software and biotech.
My only regret is that I paid off my $28k car and $45k of student loan debt early instead of starting to invest in 2015, in which case I might very well be holding $10M and instead lamenting the $1k-2k of money I spent as a child in the 00s on N64/Gamecube/Wii hardware/software that could have Apple stock worth $200k today.
When some hospital board member says "there's a shortage of nurses", they leave out the other part: "there's a shortage of nurses who will get puked on and verbally abused by patients for $40k/year".
When Mark Zuckerberg says "there are not enough good programmers", what he really means is "there are a not enough good programmers who will work 60 hour weeks for $150k in a Bay Area suburb where a 1,300 sqft suburban condo costs $2M".
I'm glad I got what I could out of this profession and started investing before the post-pandemic job market reduced us from "middle class" to "lower middle class". So far since 2018, I've managed to turn $20k into $1.4M by running my portfolio like Peter Lynch if Peter Lynch had experience in software and biotech.
My only regret is that I paid off my $28k car and $45k of student loan debt early instead of starting to invest in 2015, in which case I might very well be holding $10M and instead lamenting the $1k-2k of money I spent as a child in the 00s on N64/Gamecube/Wii hardware/software that could have Apple stock worth $200k today.