Hey, we were all "MT wannabes" sm
Posted By: Dano on 2005-08-03
In Reply to: I think all new mts should be called - Hello
at one time. It's normal that you feel you will "never get it down." I'm an oldster so I learned the "old" way and I've taught...."the old way." There are ways to make learning much easier. Could you post where your problem areas are and I, for one, will do my best to give you suggestions? Better yet, if you'll give me an email address, I'll offer to be your mentor and I'll tell you honestly after a very few days whether you should consider another career choice. AND before I get flamed, I offer this for free simply because I love MT wantabees!
Many years ago I trained my daughter in MT. She would just cry in frustration and tell me "I'll never be able to do this." She was so excited the first time she typed 10 pages in an 8 hour day. Today she is one of those MT's who honestly make in the neighborhood of $60,000-70,000 and she works about 48 hours per week AND for a big player national. And NO she is not a "cherry picker," I taught her better than that.
In any event, my advice rule #1 is to grit your teeth and dig in and DO NOT GIVE UP, HANG WITH IT. I've always told everyone I trained to expect it to take 5 years to become really proficient. I said "proficient," that doesn't mean that it will take 5 years to make a living. :)
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It would at least weed out the wannabes and
what they are doing. I am for having the testing be very comprehensive so that those who aren't really good simply would not be able to pass it.
I worked with a "MT" that went there - sm
needless to say she was not very good and eventually got fired after multiple MTs checked her work, would inform her of the mistakes she was making, etc. She never got any better and made the same mistakes over and over again. Part of it was the school and a big part of it was her.
Sorry, an "MT" should never make such basic mistakes,
FLAME AWAY.
Haven't seen it. There was this one poster, "mt," who was stressed out
I just read some of the posts from the end of September, and boy oh boy, was she ever stressed out about her QA situation. She was so stressed out that she was out-and-out arguing with folks who were simply trying to offer her some good advice for what she was going through. She was on a rampage. She responded to those helpful posters with exclamation points and wtf's and @!% many times.
Now *that* was nasty, IMO, although she was stressed. I'm sure that after she calmed down and read that thread of hers a day or two later, she could probably have seen how disagreeable and unreasonable she was being to those who were only trying to help. A lot of displaced anger there, if you ask me.
Anyway, I think this board is very helpful (I found a GREAT job because of this board), and I certainly don't mind helpful advice nor do I mind disagreements and debates, as long as they're kept on an adult level and aren't lowered to the "wtf" (and other #@!) level....
I like this board just the way it is. My opinion.
Check out the posting on job board titled "mt job".
This is who we're losing our jobs to?!?!
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