On what basis?

Entitlement attitude. I am so tired of it. What happened to rugged individualism? It's now a given that people who have failed to properly prepare themselves for life or who can't get jobs in the field they want to work in think it's everybody else's fault and that the government is responsible for bailing them out or taking them by the hand to find them a job. 

Annette Guerra is one of those people. She graduated from nursing school a year ago. She says the job market is tight in nursing, and employers are picking job candidates with experience. However, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

"Employment of registered nurses is expected to grow 26 percent from 2010 to 2020, faster than the average for all occupations."

Demand for nurses varies by geographic region, but I did a quick Google search and found lots of opportunities. In North Carolina, for example:

"One group of job seekers has continued to see healthy demand for their services: newly minted nurses." "'It’s not a matter of getting a job, it’s getting the job they want,' said Helen Ayres, program director for the associate degree nursing program at Durham Technical Community College. 'I am not aware of anybody who has not been able to get a job if they have looked.'"

And in Rhode Island:

"Labor market studies show a need for 4,300 nurses in Rhode Island by 2020," said Alaina Johnson, the executive director of the UNAP RIH Education Fund. "At the rate we're producing, it's going to be hard to meet that demand."

And in Texas:

Texas still has a serious shortage of registered nurses. According to projections from the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies, demand for full-time registered nurses in Texas exceeds supply by 22,000. In fact, in our local newspaper, there were five different ads for nurses in the classifieds last Sunday.

 

Back to Annette: she "gets by" doing "odds and ends" jobs. Instead of getting out there and pounding the pavement looking for jobs in nursing or in other fields. If I were in her shoes, I'd be burning up the internet with resumes. Annette says, "For those trying to get ahead, there should be some help from government . . ." On what basis, Annette? Why do I owe you? Are you not a big enough girl to take care of yourself? If you can't or won't take care of yourself, do I really want you taking care of me when I'm sick?

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Registered-nurses.htm
"Rich-poor job gap widens." The Dallas Morning News; September 17, 2012; p. 1A.
 http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/08/1985627/demand-for-new-nurses-remains.html
 http://www.wpri.com/news/local/providence/rhode-island-nurse-residency-program-launch
http://www.tha.org/HealthCareProviders/Advocacy/NursingCoalition/CoalitionFactSheet.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Back to Annette: she "gets by" doing "odds and ends" jobs. Instead of getting out there and pounding the pavement looking for jobs in other fields and burning up the internet with resumes, Annette says, "For those trying to get ahead, there should be some help from government . . ." On what basis, Annette? Why do I owe you?

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Healthcare/Registered-nurses.htm

"Rich-poor job gap widens." The Dallas Morning News; September 17, 2012; p. 1A.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/08/1985627/demand-for-new-nurses-remains.html

http://www.wpri.com/news/local/providence/rhode-island-nurse-residency-program-launch