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Plenty of Jobs Around, but Not Many High-Paying Ones

The good news is that jobs are coming back, the bad news is the pay of those jobs are far from stellar, said CNN.

The good news is that jobs are coming back, the bad news is the pay of those jobs are far from stellar, said CNN. According to experts, this job recovery is mainly driven by temp and low-wage jobs, which is concerning. "Growth has been concentrated in mid-wage and lower-wage industries. By contrast, higher-wage industries showed weak growth and even net losses," said Annette Bernhardt, a co-director for the National Employment Law Project.

However, not all high-wage jobs have been affected — positions for registered nurses, considered to be very high-paying jobs, are expected to have the most increase in the next decade. It's not certain whether this job trend will continue, and it'll be dependent on many factors, including the global economic recovery. For job hunters who are anxiously searching, check out the fields that have had the most job growth.

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Stranger Than Fiction: "Nurse of the Year" Not a Nurse

Next time you feel underappreciated, just make up an organization and give yourself a fake award!

Next time you feel underappreciated, just make up an organization and give yourself a fake award! That's what Betty Lichtenstein did. The Connecticut "nurse" spent more than $2,000 for a dinner honoring herself as the Connecticut Nursing Association's "Nurse of the Year." But there were only two problems: First, there's no Connecticut Nursing Association, she made it up. And second, she's not even a nurse!

Lichtenstein, 56, is now being charged with reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation after a patient complained about her. She faces five years in prison for pretending to be a nurse. Maybe she'll award herself the "Fraud of the Year" award!

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Hello Nurse! Is Our Table Ready?

In marketing terms, a trend can't be declared until there is at least three of the same thing.

In marketing terms, a trend can't be declared until there is at least three of the same thing. Well, third times a charm and I am officially declaring waitresses dressed as "hot nurses" a trend. Back in December I told you about the Heart Attack Grill in Arizona - and now I can tell you about two new places in Asia.

First there's the hospital-themed restaurant-bar in Tapei, D.S. Music Restaurant, where customers can sit around a hospital bed and order "medicine" from a menu and have it drip into their glasses from a vat suspended from the ceiling.

Second is a bar in Shenzhen (south China) where the bartenders are dressed as nurses and serve wine and drinks from syringes and test tubes.

Those two places, combined with the Heart Attack Grill, definitely equal a trend. What's next? Barmacy? Oh wait, there used to be one of those in New York, not to mention Damien Hirst's defunct fancy Pharmacy in London. Maybe the medical trend is just coming back?

Source: Spluch
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