Country: Canada

This is what I can tell from reading most of your "advice":

- Not very many of you have been taught grammar as children. If you cannot write a simple sentence properly, don't expect to get the best pay.

- Don't get your nursing diploma or become a practical nurse. GO for the gold standard and actually get your nursing degree. You will be worth the knowledge that you bring to the health care team.

- Nursing in the USA really sounds like it sucks. Your health benefits are atrocious and your pay is terrible. Nobody on this site seems to like how they're treated. Try working in Canada; leave your whining at the border.

I am a 25 + year Transport driver Canada/US. I have come to love my job due to comprimise. There are a lot of things in my life that I have left behind me. In my experience, family is most important. It's Too late to negotiate when their gone. Money is second. You have to earn enough that when you do get home you can relax. No one (even your loved ones) wants to hear your job woes.

Now, if you can find that Balance, You've got the right job for you.

In a service related Red Seal Trade - there are no set hours and not very good for family life. Life pressures - work loads and work uncertainty cause long hours during summer and demand times. It becomes difficult to find a balance in life. Extensive schooling to be the best in your field - typically 5-10 years of apprenticeship time and multi licensing is required with continual upgrades and mandatory re certification. Money is not as it should be with all of the training and responsibility. What other job can you be fined for by a governing agency - not many.

A good balance is a job you can leave at the office and not always worry how and when the tasks will be done when you are ill or need a break.

get a job that pays your worth

Having a wife and child, it is very difficult to juggle working in a kitchen and family. The only way I found to do it was to, simply put, place my family first and let my general manager know this. Making sure you have certain days off or work on opening the kitchen rather than closing helps.

"Imaging life as if you were juggling balls. There are four different type of balls. Work. Family. Health. and Spirit. All of the balls are made of rubber; if dropped they will eventually bounce back up. But you will quickly find that the family ball is made of glass. If dropped, it will dent, chip, or even break."