ughhh...its so sad that everyone thinks US streets are paved with gold, and houses built with ginger bread....but not surprising coming from an adult who cant live her own life
It's all relative to where you come from though isn't it? Philippine TV is always showing people who have made it rich in the US and then they will all know someone who comes back relatively well off so it is not surprising they want to go. In this case she could stay as a nurse on US$ 200 a month in the Philippines or go to the US and earn I would imagine just a little bit more than that.
Perhaps it might have to do with pay. A job here in HK as a registered nurse works out at about HK$100-HK110 per hour up (or US$13-14 per hour). In the US you are looking at least double this amount, with far lower housing costs, and 25% income tax only on roughly the last quarter of your salary. Even better for the Philippine nurse is that she doesn't have to learn Cantonese and Putonghua.
Perhaps there is a rational decision being made here, complete with a network or relatives who can help her find a nice unionized job.
> Job Card
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/...N)/Hourly_Rate
Last edited by fth; 16-08-2010 at 05:19 PM.
....let's hope she gets a good job in a PRIVATE hospital then, not a public clinic with shootings and bashings of the staff.....
There is not much public provision of healthcare in the US, perhaps indirectly through the state universities and the Veterans' hospital network. Most violence will occur within the Emergency Room / A&E equivalent. Not all nurses in a hospital work there.