Getting $14 an hour to spend 44 hours a week with severely mentally disabled adults. Everyday someone has a blowout, everyday I’m preforming CNA duties and I’m not being financially compensated. I love my job, the work is super rewarding, but fucking pay me fairly.
Yesterday I got shit on twice and had to stop a 50 year old from blinding their only good eye. It’s mentally taxing. It’s physically exhausting and it’s morally demeaning that I’m told to do all of this for such little pay.
Edit: I’m in Utah and CNA’s average $16 an hour here. The work I find rewarding is all on a behavioral level. I enjoy working one on one with these clients and working through their cognitive blocks. I do not enjoy changing adult briefs and showering them. So a formal CNA education has not nor will every appeal to me. Mad fucking respect for you people who do it.