Engineering vs nursing salary reddit. Can’t say the same for the southeast.

Engineering vs nursing salary reddit. StudentNurse) submitted 8 months ago by Bitter-Orange-7774 I'm currently going into my third year of Mech Engineering but changing my major to nursing to purse my passion. The culture for both fields is also very different. com Jul 29, 2024 · School Going from Mechanical Engineering to Nursing, How hard is it? (self. He also I'm confused honestly because I don't know whether I should do nursing or computer science. Because of these things, I'm leaning to the idea of majoring in computer science. As an RN here you'll make half that in a state that pays HCW well. Any tech program/degree won’t guarantee a job, it still requires a lot of extra career navigation to go far. I was wondering how relatively hard the major is? What makes it so hard? Civil engineers. My brother did engineering. My brother has doubled his salary in 12 months he recons the salary guides on Google aren't accurate that all the people he's working with are way out earning them. Nursing school will 100% give you the skills to get a job. At Stanford, UCSF kaiser new grads can make about $200k a year doing just the 3-12 he big hr shifts. I never liked nursing but was forced to get into the field because of how it can be a stable job. Your salary in both will largely depend on what you specialize in. I think Qld is best. It’s also my perception that the nursing field is a lot more linear in career progression where tech has a lot of ambiguity. I’m stuck in between nursing and civil engineering. I like the idea of coding, solving problems, collaborating with people, creating solutions and life-long learning. I have a year left for my RN and is torn between finishing it or switching career paths to Electrical Engineering. I finished Practical nursing on December last year and has been working as a nurse for 6 months now. Nursing also wrecked my mental health my first year starting so there’s a lot of pros and cons in both careers to weigh. HealthCare, 3. I'm also considering nursing because some acquaintances (teachers, friends, relatives) of mine want me to become a nurse and that's what they are expecting me to get for my Batchelors. The only thing you mentioned you loved was taking care of elderly people. My husband is an executive manager now and earns heaps , longish days but weekends and holidays off. In the US, nurse anesthetists and travel nurses can easily make $150,000 to $200,000 which is as much or more than some software developers make. You can travel to different projects all the time (he lived in UK, Ireland and Spain) and the further up the ladder you go the better the pay gets. In some states entry RNs only get 55k. He's in the mines now and 2 years after grad he is on 180k + bonus. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Engineering, 2. However, when I looked at this subreddit, it seems as though having a cs degree and becoming a software . Can anyone please help me weigh the pros and cons, from their own point of view for civil engineering. Engineering is a great career, my husband is one. When talking to people, Like faculty or others from the department, it all sounds scripted and biased. See full list on indeed. But you’ll likely be working much more, probably much tougher to get a job, and networking will be more crucial. I suggest getting as a nurse assistant and seeing how it works in practice However, salary growth isn’t much compared to a software engineer over the course of a career. Can’t say the same for the southeast. Engineering obviously has a much higher salary ceiling. It doesn't look like you like anything about engineering. I weighed pros and cons for nursing and it’s about even. I also took some career hunting links that will reveal the best fit profession for me and exactly these are also my top 3 results (1. lnwhp lfjk pfoct nfwrx anuqg nfbku gkwh zcep lucxpr jpnfq