Nursing has long carried a certain stereotype: you won't get rich, but the pay is steady, the bills get covered, and there's a sense of security that comes with the scrubs. That's what one 28-year-old in Omaha, Nebraska, thought she was signing up for. Instead, she says the reality looks nothing like the job description she imagined.
In the Nursing subreddit, she posted under the title "Anyone else struggling immensely financially?" and laid out her situation bluntly: "Hi, I have been a nurse for 2.5 years and thought as soon as I became a nurse, my financial situation would get better. Boy, was I wrong." Despite earning $31.85 an hour, she explained that "approximately 75% of my income goes to bills and rent. Can't catch a break and it's miserable." She later added in an edit that after paying off a debt, "it will be more like 65% of my income goes toward bills."
