We all work incredibly hard, training, ensuring pt safety/comfort/health, as we gain experience the fact that new graduates make more is frustrating as we take on the burden of their education and consequences of their inexperience and they get to start off well while we play catch up. Do my years of experience mean nothing? Does my knowledge hold such little value? My job is no feel good movie, it has stressed me into sickness but still I give my best to my new grads and to my patients. I have no savings, I live paycheck to paycheck with a definite need for side hustles. I should not be faced with 'do I need to pick up OT and risk my body getting sicker?'