

I really like the etymology of the word.
Thus, as people became more and more specialized in their trade, they began to ‘profess’ their skill to others, and ‘vow’ to perform their trade to the highest known standard. With a reputation to uphold, trusted workers of a society who have a specific trade are considered professionals.
-Wikipedia



I work maintenance at a retirement home/long term care facility and the outlook is fucking grim folks. I’m relieved that my parents will probably be able to afford to age in place, because I couldn’t stand them living someplace like where I work. It is pretty expensive on the independent side ($6k+/month), and starting to become understaffed on the medical side, with little hope of attracting new talent to our rural, high COL location. There’s a $3k signing bonus, great, that’ll help with the $100k student loans from nursing school that exposes them to way better offers in more accessible places to live. I do my best to make life better for our residents, but even my team is 2 people short of full and corporate won’t list a single new position. Here comes winter and heat runs failing because they haven’t been serviced in 20 years, snow storms we’ll have to plow with one less team member than last year, and the fucking flu/COVID. If you think COVID is over go ask the staff at a nursing home.
Sorry, rant over.