Also, besides those moments you are there for,
Posted By: TM on 2006-11-08
In Reply to: thank u for those that - AnnaP
I think people forget to factor the savings into their salary. I know I save a lot not commuting, wear and tear on your vehicle, gas, parking, lunches, work clothes, daycare. It's easy to run to the school for a lunch visit, etc. I am here whenever they need me, not spending 2 hours on the road commuting.
Those are things that factor into a salary. I could go work at the hospital in my city making more money, but what works out best for me and my family? Right now it is here where I am at. I also have the added benefit of having a flex schedule and will go back to school next year hopefully. I sure couldn't do that working at a hospital somewhere unless I wanted to only do night classes and really never be around.
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I have my moments
I sometimes feel like I hate this because nobody gets that it is a career for me and that I work hard for it. Sometimes the companies take you for granted and expect you to work at all hours or people at home conveniently forget I am busy working. I love the flexibility I have and being able to be here for my son when he needs me though. I came from retail management before I got into medical. Let me tell you that is a very stressful job. I was salaried with almost no payroll to work with so they expected me to work the extra since I was salaried. I had to unload big trucks of merchandise which I really hated as it did my back wrong(I have a bad back). I also sometimes hated when I worked at a hospital after that just dealing with the office drama. A while back my part time job I do for a doctor and office manager I have known since hospital days I worked in the office some. That reminded me of the office drama that I hate. One girl worked the office and she had moods that would not stop and would stir up trouble. This was a good reminder for me of why I do what I do. I have to really keep reminding myself of all these things on the days I cannot keep going. I make decent money with flexibility and that works for mand right now. You have to keep thinking about the positives to keep going.
I had one of those moments...sm
The office I used to work at was verbatim. So if the doc called a patient by a nick name or something else, you typed it. I was not feeling well one day and was unhappily typing along. The sentence I typed was "Bucky and his wife came in today."
Day was over, time to go home.
Next day, the doc whose typing I did said to me "who is bucky?" I said "Your patient who came in for a procedure. Who else would it be?"
Long story short...it took his nurse about a week but she finally figured out that what he had said was BOTH HE AND HIS WIFE came in.
Laugh if you can, life goes on, and docs will still dictate what they want.
Intimate moments
I've heard it all, ladies and gentleman, in my 20 years in this business. The worst was a doctor who thought he hung up the phone when his wife came in, but it was still off hook and it recorded the next 20 minutes of their "intimacy" if you know what I mean. Then, you hear him say "someone's coming!" and he picks up the phone and starts dictating like nothing was going on. Yes, you got it right - they were in a dictating cubicle in the doctor's lounge. OMG, I could never look him in the eye again.....
I agree.....I have had many of those moments. sm
But really looking back, it was well worth the sacrifice to stay home and work all different hours around my kids schedules.
It wasn't one of those "where were you? moments for me, I guess
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Eskipoo. American Eskimo/Poodle. Has his moments. :)
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