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 🙃

Exactly. If you took all the vacuous shit off tv, there'd be very little left!

Well nursing pay isn’t based on performance, it’s not something where working harder = more money.

Completely agree. There are also ‘influencers’ who repeatedly tidy their house up. Aka reset. 🥱

Can you teach me too?

Being a nurse is a difficult job, physically, mentally and emotionally. Burn outs really high in the profession and I can imagine it would be exceptionally hard as a paediatric nurse. Anyone who wouldn't leave a job where they could make more money in another and spend more time with their family and have a better work life balance would be a bit mental. Yes it's great to be a nurse, but like any job, you need to put your own wellbeing first.

I'm not a huge fan of influencers and the grotesque over consumption of stuff we don't need but that's why I choose not to follow them. Anyone can choose to do the same who doesn't agree with it.

No idea who watches these "influencers" but I'm probably not the target market. But yes it's wrong and not good role models for younger people who think they can just make easy money.

I also think that - apart from mental health nursing-the fact that most nurses are women is a factor.
Would they put up with such shit if they were men?
Like could you imagine if most nurses were male would they put up with the NMC dictate how they should behave (obviously actual criminal behaviour is different) outside of work?

I can't say for sure but I'd doubt it.

I was talking to DH about this recently - that the best minds in the world aren’t using their brains to solve the world’s problems but instead using them to figure out how to generate more clicks. It’s where the money is clearly and it is happening at all levels. Depressing.

It is all well and good until you start thinking 'what am I doing with my life? What is the purpose of my life?'. If either of these two questions do not lead in your mind to a discussion of 'how can I be helping other people in what I do' then there is no point. You are also on the wrong site for this - here really important questions do not get asked often, or they do but are soon derailed to practicalities, rarely do we look beyond the surface.

If you have eyes and a heart and can't see how your job is infinitely better on every level than the embarrassment that are all influences put together, then maybe you burnt out?

I don’t blame her for quitting a high stress shift work job - that would include working nights - to earn more money online at home.

If we want it to stop being how the world works, we some how need to kick our addiction to social media. But that’s impossible because it’s designed that way! Big tech needs to stop it being so addictive but they won’t. All v depressing, sure. But I don’t blame her for taking the opportunity to make more money and leave a physically and mentally demanding, poorly paid job?!

I assume she has the right to decide for herself how she earns a living. I'm not sure why it's anyone else's business.

This with bells on.

OP, why have you making out that someone else’s choices is a commentary on your choices? Stacey Soloman’s sister doesn’t know you and contrary to your beliefs, you don’t know her either. Your ‘annoyance’ about this says more about you then it does about the choices of someone you do not know.

Jeez!

Stacey Soloman's an empty vessel. She probably thinks she needs a Passport to shop in Iceland.

Don't get me started on those who get paid for cleaning their house. I've always used a certain cleaning product but now boycott them because their IG channel has been completely taken over by "influencers" doing stupid dances and messing about in shops which stock the product.

Also on IG you have to sit through videos of "influencers" opening freebie parcels (this is when I boycotted) while normal and loyal, paying customers like me receive emails every time we order "so sorry for the delay - we can't get your parcel out due to high demand". Then the "influencer" will post a video of them cleaning their sink like they're the first ones to think of the concept.

And I love dogs more than anyone - but the amount of people who have dog accounts and they write as if they're the dog. It's really bizarre. A few have said recently they've been able to give up work just for putting photos of their dog on IG!

That’s what I think too. My son has been applying for tons of jobs over the past year - charity, civil service, marketing, research (not finance admittedly). He’s got to the last two a couple of times but not got the job. There are hundreds of people applying for entry level jobs (you can see the profile of the people applying via the online recruitment platforms) and they often have a lot of experience together with degrees etc.

He can’t even get unpaid internships which he has also been applying for.

He’s intelligent and personable with a good degree but has not got work experience which is the main down side. But you’d think he’d have got something by now given that he’s not looking for the big bucks and we live in London so you’d think there would be loads of opportunities.

I don't care how anyone makes their money good luck to them

So don’t watch them. They won’t get any of your tax money if you don’t watch them. They also won’t be getting sick pay, holiday pay, maternity pay or pension plans and most will earn very little.

Its a job. Nobody has to do it, nobody has to watch them do it.

Its also a job done by those prepared to work long hours to try and build a business and earn an independent living.

This doesn't really work when you're talking about someone whose income depends on making their personal choices everyone else's business!

Oh please. Have you any idea of how shift work affects the body?

Numerous studies have indicated that it's highly detrimental to a person's health in the long-term.
We are not meant to sleep during daylight hours.
Yes maybe the body can recover in the short-term but over a period of time?
Maybe a nurse who quits is 'helping others' and her friends and family by not getting ill herself.
Especially if she is not one of those people who can sleep at any time.

Honestly unless a person has worked nights themselves (doesn't have to be as a nurse, could be shelf-stacking, though obviously the latter is not such a responsible job) they don't know what they're talking about.

Maybe you have. I've no way of knowing.

Or she thought it was morally good to do a job that has a positive impact on the world if you can?

I’d say that yes we need doctors etc - but I’ve read on here numerous times how difficult is is to get a job as a doctor - loads of competition. Although we need more doctors to help us, the NHS / govt doesn’t actually want to employ any more I don’t think.

My ds had to apply for 30 jobs to secure an internship. This really impacted his time for his studies. It’s totally normal to need to apply to this many and most students don’t manage to obtain internships.

I can see why content creation is way more attractive and don’t blame anyone who chooses that.

Because people like you watch it? If you didn't there'd be no money in it.

But there are people who do. Thats why she's successful

Well, can remember youngsers being asked about 20 years ago what they want to be when they grow up and 'famous' was one of the answers repeated. Got to hand it to them, it's working for many!

I doubt Staceys sis would've done ok though, had she not been Staceys sister.

Oh come off it. I worked as a nurse and I left as soon as something more lucrative came up.

3, 12 and a half hour nightshifts a week on no sleep as I had young children to look after Vs a less “worthy” job where I worked a few days a week, shorter hours, for more pay. Too right I fucked off the nursing.

That doesn’t mean I want sick people to die, it means that I want the best conditions for my own life.

so honestly if you had the option to work long hours, wipe other people's arses and clean up sick for pittens or sit at home and send a couple of videos making more than double the money you would chose the first. Get a grip, the disgusting thing is that this has become so normal, it's not the people themselves that are disgusting, given the chance 99% of people would do the same if they could.