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Comparing Careers: Post Office vs. Nursing, Thesis of Business Accounting

A personal account of the author's experiences working in the post office and the nursing profession. The author compares and contrasts the two careers in terms of job requirements, shifts, pay, and benefits. The document also discusses the similarities and differences between the two careers, including their essential roles in society and the personal fulfillment they offer.

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Download Comparing Careers: Post Office vs. Nursing and more Thesis Business Accounting in PDF only on Docsity! ENGL-117 Post Office or Nursing? Chamberlain College of Nursing ENGL-117: English Composition There are careers that come naturally to some, while others think long and hard about a career they want. Everyone has a path in life no matter how old they are. Life is a beautiful mess, and it is never meant to be followed in a clear direct path. Some people take years on deciding their career path, while others know early on what they want to become. There are similarities and big differences in the two choices I have from experience, the Post Office and Nursing. Both careers are essential to society, long shifts, and great pay, but differ in significant ways such as what the job entails, what are the shifts, and what job titles they have. Post Office The Post Office was a strenuous labor required job, everyday loads of heavy mail and packages would have to be delivered all throughout the Wilmette and Kenilworth areas. Day in and day out I would have to deliver typically five trays of letters, four to five trays of magazines, and a hundred to two hundred packages. When I was employed by the Post Office, I was making roughly 17.79 an hour plus time and half each week for overtime. A typical day at the Post Office is seven in the morning to nine o’clock at night, because as a City Carrier Assistant you are required to work as long as it takes to deliver mail. I started having one day off a week, which was nice considering how hard it was to walk and carry as much mail as I could. Once the holidays came and from that point forward, I was working seven days a week, which was legal due to federal laws implemented in the Post Office. The amount of money on my checks would equivale to $1,500-2,500 every two weeks, which was a good amount for only being the age of twenty-one. Nursing Profession Nursing is an essential job for nearly any stage of life, because without hospitals society would not thrive. People rely on healthcare for all their needs whether it is for a common cold, disease, or childbirth. A shift in nursing is usually a seven to seven, either three days a week or four days a week. Nursing can vary in the type of departments, but the one I am heavily focused on is Pediatrics. I shadowed a hospital while in high school and watching a mother endure a cesarean birth was the most humbling experience in my life. Nurses are in charge of giving IV fluids, medicine, and providing care for those in need. A typical day consists of rounds where they check on their patients and help control pain, while doing what doctors ask of them. Nursing is similar to the Post Office with the strenuous amounts of labor that the job requires. Nurses are on their feet day in and day out tending to everyone’s needs. They are both similar as well in the fact they are both always open. Even if the Post Office is closed to the public, behind the scenes they are running twenty-four hours long seven days a week. Hospitals are also open seven days a week, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and twenty-four hours a day. They both are good careers with great benefits such as health care, dental, and vision, which not all careers offer. Differences The Post Office and Nursing are both essential jobs to society, but vary on the type of work that entails, for example one is mail related services while the other is providing care to patients. The Post Office also requires only a high school diploma, where Nursing requires a BSN. Nursing hours can range from twelve to twenty-four hours, whereas the Post Office can be twelve to fourteen hours. Nursing has different departments where nurses specialize in their area of work, such as where the Post Office has either CCA’s, Regular Carriers, Mail Handlers,