Canada’s unfilled health-care jobs doubled since pandemic began: StatCan - eviltoast

The report shows the number of unfilled health-care jobs in Canada reached an all-time high in 2022 and that staff are missing an extra week on average due to illness.

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    It didn’t come to light for a lot of people until the pandemic. I’m not talking about nurses, I’m talking about kids that are deciding what career to get in to.

    Before the pandemic it was, “nursing is tough but a well-paying job.” Now it’s, “nurses get treated like shit you don’t want to do that.”

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      I’m talking about kids that are deciding what career to get in to.

      Yes, me too. That is what a would-be nurse usually identifies as.

      There might have been still some roses and sunshine seen in public service positions 30 years ago, but people haven’t felt that way in a long, long time. The pandemic changed nothing.

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        I feel like you just want to win an argument. So ok cool you’re right you win. I’ve got shit to do. See ya.

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          I don’t follow. Winning an argument makes you the loser. If there is merit to what you say, I lose, not win. Therefore we can establish that there is no merit to the assertion.

          I feel like you just don’t like people. As soon as someone talks to you, you run away. Work is, indeed, a good escape from people, and I hope you find solace in that. Until next time!

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            I rode my motorcycle to a mountain and walked 10km to swim in a lake. I wish that was work.

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        Did you know that the popular way to become a doctor is to first get into university as a nurse, then transfer to the doctor’s course after the first year? It’s well told and commonly accepted and done.

        Except for the fact that those nurses find out that not a single credit gotten in the nurse course can be applied to the doctor’s course. Even worse, if you’ve started the nurse’s course, you’re barred from the doctor’s course, even if you try to switch universities. This has been true for more than a decade (I know, because I knew someone who suffered this). At least Ontario is so starved for nurses that they teach you in high school to go to nurse school as a shortcut to get into a doctor’s course if you don’t get accepted the first try. A lie that is perpetuated because becoming a nurse is so unpopular.