She Quit Being an ICU Nurse to Make Six Figures
- Nursing is always where I saw myself,” explains Allie Rae.
- Getting there was the hard part. She inked up for the Navy at 17, serving as a yeoman who supported the captains and penned awards literature anytime someone entered a order. At 18, she married her hubby, and they had two children right down. Rae — who is using her stage name — decided to leave the Navy in 2006, following Hurricane Katrina. She ’d been posted in New Orleans during the disaster, and witnessing the desolation and loss of life firsthand had taken its risk. Following a brief stint in marketing, she enrolled in nursing academy, ultimately landing in the labor and delivery unit of a top sanitarium in Massachusetts.
- And she soon realized that she had a gift for helping people.
- Rae worked 14-hour days in the neonatal ferocious care unit, which she describes as “trying on my body” and “emotionally draining.” But she loved her work. To blow off brume — and entertain herself — Rae began posting revealing shots of herself on Instagram and The Chive, under the alias “Allie Rae.”
- “They informed my director about that and I was called into the office about their social media policy,” shares Rae. “It got uncomfortable, where I felt people were concentrating further on my performance outside of the sanitarium versus my performance in the sanitarium.”
- Given that she was using an alias, was not relating where she worked, and was not posting anything too risqué, Rae was let off with awarning.Three months latterly, in March 2021, the nosy nurses plant Rae’s Only Fans.
- “They subscribed and paid to my Only Fans account to screenshot it and bring it to my director,” recalls Rae. “It was like Mean Girls for grown-ups.”
- So she quit.