text: I and my wife are inpatient hospital RNs and although a full-time hospital acute care RN can easily earn over $100K regular annual pay these days (not to mention overtime pay too), but it really helps to be younger (which the wife is in the article) to put up with these stress of a full-time hospital acute care RN job.  The expectations of job performance are high (life and death) and getting tougher.  My wife and I (both older) now only work 4 days a week part-time, otherwise we would burn out (our son also has health issues which can result in almost a full-time care job on the side).  Even with our wages, which are still considerable for Hawaii, we can only keep up with our $300K condo mortgage, so I have no idea how they are pulling this off at twice the amount.  They appear to be living on the fragile edge and I really wish them luck.