The hottest job in the country belongs to those who are least likely to take Labor Day off
WorkOne’s list of Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs placed registered nurses in the top spot in economic growth for Region 5, which includes Madison, Marion, Boone, Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Johnson, Morgan and Shelby counties.
With an average wage of $54,934 and an anticipated 5,020 new jobs created by 2014, nursing is the field dominating the job market.
Post-secondary teachers and computer software engineers rounded out the top three, respectively.
Kendall Osborn, an emergency room nurse at Community Hospital in Anderson, said nursing offers a wide variety of positions for different worker personalities. For instance, his work in the emergency room vastly differs from working in an operating room.
Working in the ER, Osborn experiences a fast-paced, unpredictable workday. “I like the excitement of the ER,” he said. He recently worked a shift where five patients went into cardiac arrest at once, demanding split-second decisions and rapid response from the nursing staff.
Since nursing is a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week job, nurses often encounter varying shifts but Osborn said typical 9-to-5 shifts are available for those who want to work days.
Deanne Loyd, a nursing supervisor at Saint John’s Medical Center, said nursing offers flexibility. “You can go anywhere and get a job.”
Amy Herbig, a registered nurse at Saint John’s, said she waited until she was 40 to become a nurse after working as a waitress for years. She wishes she would have broken into the field sooner.
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Osborn said nursing offers something few fields can promise — guaranteed growth. “Medicine is a growing field. There’s always a scarcity of good nurses and it pays well (source) |
