Stacey Soloman rant that actually just shows what's wrong with the world

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So I've just watched a video where shes addressing someone writing an article about her sister and how she used to work as a peads nurse but now makes money online like Stacey because shes better off and get more time with her family.

How is this the way the world works?
Im not disregarding why influencers do it becaise I would if I could being a nurse myself but this is so wrong that this is the best way of getting money these days.

Its the same with ladbaby etc why the hell are all these people getting crazy money for all this stuff.

Sorry just had to rant whilst on my break on night shift on my extra shift that ive taken 🙃

I know a few teachers who have left the education system and privately tutor full time.

Their hours might not be the standard 9-5, but they generally work half the hours they did as a class teacher, have matched (and in one case significantly exceeded) their class teacher salary. There is more flexibility in how they teach, what they teach and they can genuinely meet the needs of the child.

In essence, they are teaching again.

Teaching has become more 'corporate' in its approach and expectations, which doesn't really fit the role especially when the education landscape has changed so significantly.

Unfortunately, the private tutor market has become somewhat saturated so I don't know how this will play out in the future but, then again, with more parents realising the education system isn't working for their children anymore, maybe the need will continue to increase.

it has become such a flex to quit the rat race, even if it makes you economically worse off

I'm in a fb group for teachers considering leaving the profession and there are teachers leaving the profession and taking £20-£40k pay cuts (with standard AL) to work in lower paid (sometimes min wage) roles. That says a lot about what people are prioritising.

It's not a 'flex' people just can't sustain it any longer. And many people are deciding that there are more important things in life than just making money.

Ha, have any of us tried though? I’m not sure I’d want to sit filming myself pegging crisps up in a cupboard. I mean, good for her in ways, I know she had a tough life prior to the X Factor and now she can give her DC a wonderful life. The content just baffles me though, same with Mrs Hinch if she’s still around. It may just be me but I don’t want to watch people mopping.

Maybe it's disgusting we pay nurses so little, but people have the right to choose a better paying path if that's open to them.

100% agree. Your own family has to come first.

Maybe im being naive but I thought "making it" as in being able to live comfortably from streaming/insta/youtube/tiktok would be a bit like wanting to be a pro footballer or a popstar....in that for every successful one theres thousands who tried and failed...?

What’s your job then?

There are lots of teachers/nurses etc doing supply work for agencies because the govt won't give schools and hospitals the money to employ us on permanent contracts. Why wouldn't someone exchange low paid job insecurity for high paid job insecurity? 'Influencing' might not last forever but if it's lucrative, why not make the money instead of working harder for less?

There are currently midwives on uni training courses who were promised guaranteed employment, who have had that ripped away at the last minute - I can see the appeal of a career where a person has some control over their own employment. There's no loyalty from the state in terms of supporting (via guaranteed employment) of those people who have entered vocational careers, so I can't see that a nurse or teacher/TA owes anyone years of their life in high stress/long hours/low paid work.

The content just baffles me though, same with Mrs Hinch if she’s still around. It may just be me but I don’t want to watch people mopping.

Many people are bored/lonely before SM they would have watched telly or QVC etc. Mrs Hinch was brilliant marketing, it’s much harder to aspire to be like your “friend” who is showing off designer handbags etc but the vast majority can buy the same sponge or mop as Mrs Hinch.

The problem isn't 'influencers'.

The problem is that, for many reasons, nursing (as one example) has become such an unattractive career.

Perhaps if wards were staffed adequately, bursaries were reintroduced during training, nurses weren't required to work over their hours and earned enough to not need UC tops ups, food banks and could afford to buy houses, maybe they'd be happier to do it.

Live and let live, you may be happy being a nurse getting the pay that you do, she obviously wasn’t, she’s found something that brings an awful lot more money than being a nurse. If you won the euro’s or a massive windfall would you still be doing your nursing job?

I think some people are misunderstanding you OP.
It’s just demoralising as a nurse that the value placed on the job is so little compared to influencers, footballers, bankers etc. I think that’s what you were saying? If so, I completely agree.

The OP is being very, very unreasonable.

Not only does society put pressure on nurses to be martyrs and perfect human beings but it seems they do so themselves.
(I recall the recent thread here about how the nurse should be struck off for having an affair and a shouting match with the cheating husband's wife. I am not condoning affairs at all but the point is that in few other jobs would it be suggested she lose her job.)

Three years training and debt at the end of it.
Gone are the days of bursaries and it being a 5 o'level job.

If any person can find an easier life that doesn't involve the havoc of shift work and the stress of it all, good luck to them.

There's no need to worry as I'm sure that there are people who love nursing who wouldn't quit under any circumstances.

Having worked night shifts in a nursing home while waiting to train in my profession, I can say that they are the pits and found it extremely difficult to sleep the next day.
You don't just go to bed at 8 am and sleep. You often go in the second night with very little sleep.

F* that. If anybody can get out of that, good luck to them.

Exactly. And perhaps if the general public didn’t treat NHS staff (and teachers) like total shit that would also help.
The ambulance service in particular has lost a massive amount of experienced paramedics. You used to enter the service and it was your career for 30-40 years. Now the workforce is really inexperienced and most now leave the NHS ambulance service within about 7 years to move into better paid, more flexible jobs where they don’t suffer the abuse and poor working conditions that exists in the NHS.

My DS (18) has autism and can’t work as he finds a lot of stuff distressing and can’t speak to people he doesn’t know. He started YouTube at 16 to gain confidence and now makes around £3000 a month and it goes up all the time. People who look down on this sort of thing is just jealous in my opinion. This is a lifeline for him and he makes me so proud. There is nothing wrong with making money online

It’s always been this way though with nursing. People would happily pay more for a painter to paint their front room than for the nurse who cared for them in ICU/hospice/hospital ward etc.

Re SS and her sister, Mrs Hinch, and the other “content creators” (hate that term) - it’s so not my thing and I find them very fake - nearly every post is an ad/affiliate link disguised as “family life”, “self care” etc but if people are stupid enough to get sucked in and buy all their crap, that’s on them.

I’ve said on here just recently - why the hell would you want a duvet cover with SS’s dog on it or Mrs Hinch’s alpaca, or do up your house the same as a thousand others with Mrs Hinch’s home bargains shite???

Its a scourge of the modern era I suppose 🤷‍♀️

Alright, I’ll be the judgmental bitch…

these people can only make the money they do because pig ignorant idiots hang on their every pig ignorant word. Idiot people are placing huge amounts of ‘value’ on people who gain their ‘value’ from having xxxx numbers of idiot followers. What particular circle of hell is that? Why does anyone need to be influenced and told what to do or buy? What happened to good old fashioned using your own brain to make your own mind up about something?

In reference to a post above, why would anyone want to sit through a video of some barely literate woman making a rice pudding or cutting her fringe?

honestly, I truly fear for humanity.

While ever people are lapping up Stacey Solomon’s every word, they’re not likely to be looking at politics and working out how best to
vote so nurses get paid what they’re actually worth to society.

breaking news - the beckhams have just become billionaires. I fucking despair.

(Stops typing and runs for cover)

And also, if people are stupid enough to follow someone who films themselves doing something mundane and tedious like mopping a floor then they can’t really moan about that person taking advantage of that to earn some money.

That's not what she's saying at all 🙄

Totally agree . Paediatric nursing is extremely tough and the working conditions are only getting worse . It’s easy to judge someone when you haven’t been in their shoes

Why?

Influencers, along with other content creators, performers and entertainers tend to work long, hard hours and most earn very modestly. The fact that it looks easy doesn’t mean that it is - the looking easy is part of the job.
A small percentage hit the big time and make big money for as long as they can maintain a career - that is the nature of life as a creator/performer in the creative industries and arts.

Nurses join a career path which can be pursued to a very senior and well paid level, along with much more job security and actual benefits. Few of the “talents” in the media industries have benefits let alone pensions. Few content creators earn as much in a year as a graduate nurse with a couple of years’ experience under their belt. Few have the prospects of the nursing career path.

Those nights working as a care assistant on nights were an absolute feat of endurance.
I recall coming home after the second night and still not being able to sleep. Crying with despair and exhaustion.

OK, OK I'll concede that I wasn't a nurse but we worked the same hours.

Yes babies can be difficult but a nurse is expected to do this for 40 years! Unless she/he gets into management.

F*ing good luck to anybody who escapes that.

The nurse I worked with had been a nurse for 20 years, she still said she couldn't get used to nights.

Oh yes and you're supposed to be on your best behaviour when off duty, too.

I don’t blame them at all. I’ve been looking at moving out of my profession as the MH effects just aren’t worth it.

And, tbh, I don’t care about the national economy, that’s out of my hands - I care about not feeling suicidal because of my job and my family keeping their wife and mother.

Our mortgage is paid off, no debts left. So taking that into account a minimum wage job will leave me with the same net income as before from my professional role

Influencers are a weird mix of celebrity and marketing. I'd be a shit celebrity, but I was great at marketing/advertising and used to get paid very well for a job that largely involved going to lovely restaurants with interesting people and getting drunk at glamorous parties. I didn't make millions - some did - but had a very nice life. I enjoyed the 'work' part of the job, as well.

If you can shift product for corporations, you can make good money. This is just another marketing channel. It probably won't last all that long: I spend very little time watching influencers, but have become aware of the increasing amount of AI-generated 'people' pushing content. Once they figure out how to catch the public's hearts & minds with digital influencers, the opportunity for human ones will start to close.

People will come up with new ways to have a good time while selling stuff, though!

Go for it if you can afford to.

Too often women are expected to sacrifice themselves for some perceived greater good.
Put you and your family first.
There are nurses who love the job and I'm afraid to say the sense of martyrhood it gives them so let them do it.
So I mean this in a good way nobody will suffer if you leave.
My MIL was like this. Didn't have to work at all as my FIL had made a ton of money.
I appreciate that she wanted money of her own but she could have picked something easier as a job.
She became a nursing sister. Used to love being a martyr. Complain endlessly about it and I'd be like why are you doing it?
The answer was she just thought it morally good to suffer.

Is that any different from people watching a lot of nonsense on TV and presenters we don't like making a living from that?