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Maybe because someone wants to?
It might fit one's preferences better than programming, and the pay isn't different by orders of magnitude.
Yes but the question is why do they want to? :)
I've worked in elderly care myself a long time ago when I was around 15 years old, which I imagine is quite comparable to being a nurse but I've found the work to be very hard both physically and emotionally (a lot of suffering and occasionally death to deal with). In fact it inspired me to do better in school just to not have to do work this hard for what back then I envisioned being "the rest of my life".
In Germany you either finish school with after 9, 10 or 12 (back then 13) years and you could only study at a University (without jumping through hoops) after attaining your 12/13 year school diploma. I was in the 10-year school type and working in elderly care was pretty much the type of work I might have to do if I left school after 10 years. My grades improved and I switched schools after 10 years and did another 3 just to "escape" hard work like that.
I like work that's hard. The difference between us might be as simple as that. I even like work that's physically hard. There's something really satisfying about getting home from work and how good it feels to sit down and rest your feet, and how you know that the tiredness means you were especially useful that day.
Healthcare in the US is more expensive than in Germany, and the relative status may be different. The mean salary for US registered nurses is just over €50,000.
Well, why does anyone want to do anything? Your question implied that there one might want to "do better", which strikes me as underinformed.
EDIT I just figured out something really interesting but am almost out of charge in the computer, will update in a bit
Maybe it was, looking at that 50000€/y number solipsist quotes. In Germany you earn barely half of that before tax.
But that's not at all the main reason why I ask to be perfectly honest. I remember Swimmer portraying herself as having some form of social anxieties so this job strikes me as a particularly counterintuitive choice.