Poor thing, your negativity is showing

• Poll: Is MT a profession or vocation? nm - MT student
  • Poll: - ladydi
  • doesn't matter- - sn
  • Definitely a profession. This is a - negative place to post sometimes, so
    • It's about as much of a profession as being the cashier at Walmart - wow
      • Speak for yourself..... I can transcribe anything... Can a Wal-Mart cashier? - Why put people down? nm
        • can you stand on your feet all day, be abused by better than thou customers, work for slave wages? - I choose or what
    • profession not based on $ earned, but on specific criteria...sm - MTSO
      • Uhhmm, you are wrong! Here is what - Roget's says about "profession"!
      • I thought being a hooker WAS "the oldest profession." - txmt
        • actually, motherhood is the oldest profession.. - I choose or what
        • It gets about as much respect as being an MT! - sm
      • Poor thing, your negativity is showing - MTbird
        • and your lack of expectations for yourself is showing. - nm
        • dream on, Ms. Professional...sm - MTSO
          • some people need to make themselves sound important - sm
  • a bad career choice - txmt
  • here's some dict def's, i think it IS a profession. - sm
    • and how many liberal arts and science bachelors degrees & beyond are held on this board? - OMG - you're KIDDING, right???
  • There's a difference between a profession and a job. - MT is a job.
  • definitely NOT a profession...criteria are...sm - MT2RN
    • college or not (I did) - what you do....sm - I think U R nutzo.....whether we attended
      • U R confusing official definition of professional with "popular" definition...sm - Old MT
  • It's a SICKNESS!!!! (nm) - I'm terminal!!!!
  • It's a knowledge-intensive field which doesn't pay anywhere near enough.. - L.P.H.
    • EXACTLY - great post!! not paid enough!! sm - I think U R nutzo.....whether we attended
    • It's a one-trick pony that requires us to sit on our butts on auto-pilot all day - oh please!
      • I PRAY that you NEVER transcribe my - Medical Reports
        • Oh, get over yourself. - yaaaaaaaaawn
  • Neither - it's an addiction. nm - Frankie
    • Funny answer *addiction* - LOL.....nm - It's a zoning out addiction *lol*

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Rough day for you.  I think we all have been there.  

Make some time for yourself.  QUICK!!  If you can't take a whole day off, take 1/2 a day.  If that won't work....take an hour.  But do something for YOU.  You deserve it.  You need to recharge.

Good Luck.

Dictators like that make me so angry I want to smack 'em! 

It's probably a good thing most of us don't have direct contact with the dictators.  You've heard of road rage?  If we could get our hands on some of these worst-of-the-worst dictators there might be a new term:  MT rage!  (Or maybe *going MT* instead of *going postal.*)  LOL

I'm kidding, of course.  I'm not really suggesting violence.  But I do sometimes wish I could at least get to tell them off in person, instead of doing it at home at my desk, where they can't hear me.    

Hope the rest of your day is better. 

Doctors say and write lots of things that are not proper which is why Joint Commission adopted the Pharmacists' recommendation of dangerous abbreviations.  It comes down to patient care, not trying to prove a point that a doctor or two write something that way.  For the same reason it is dangerous to write Valium 5 1 daily, I will not use the two exposed numerals together in D5 0.25 normal saline. 

Phyllis, if you are alive, thank you for educating me about normal saline and how to use it properly 15 years ago.

Marcaine, though, is just an anesthetic.  It numbs the area so the tendon can "relax."  When my tendinitis was at its worst, the tendon swelled and compressed the ulnar nerve, causing numbness in my ring and little fingers -- it was like trying to type with a ham!  LOL

I wish I knew a good way to describe the exercises my doctor gave to me.  He said the mark of a good surgeon was one who doesn't want to do surgery, and I agree.  My first flareup was about 10 years ago, and I haven't been "knifed" yet.  

Maybe there are some examples online of stretching exercises.   Good luck to you!   

I've been there but had to work outside the home. I had a slug of an ex who paid child support when "he had the money." I learned how to shop and ate whatever the kids left over in their dinner bowls. To this day I will not touch a Spaghetti-O. :)

First and most important is be a parent to your kids. Have fun with them,  but set limits with them and be a mom and not a friend. That's what they need. And NEVER, EVER, say a bad word about their father, no matter what, even if he bad mouths you.  My kids figured out what a slug their dad was on their own. They are both adults with kids of their own and I still refuse to bad mouth their father after nearly 20 years.

I agree with the negativity about the MT profession and people should get a new profession if they are no longer happy with it.  But this board is nowhere NEAR as negative as another popular MT board! In a LOT of jobs, people are being laid-off because of cheaper labor, not just MT.  Maybe it's time to go back to school for some people who aren't making enough.  I mean, complaining really isn't going to solve your problem, so do something about it.

nm

Do your research. open your mind.  Get a clue.  Hello, McFly!  It's always the same old people spouting the same old nonsense with nothing to back their statements except unsubstantiated personal opinions.  No facts, just blowhard opinions.  I've had it with the constant negativity.  I'm not helping anybody any more on the Word, Drug or Style boards.  I'm not helping newbies or the technically challenged.  YOU WIN, TROLLS!  You can have the boards because I quit coming here PERIOD.

If a company hires only ICs, then they cannot expect them to work except for the times they want. 

Typing less than 100 lines a day is not pocketchange because of the pay. 

up on my doorstep, so I have my taxes done by H&R Block.  No guarantee that you still won't have problems with IRS, but it makes me feel better.  I don't claim my house/utilities.  I don't claim nickel and dime stuff either. 

When my mother died exactly a week later I get a letter from the IRS stating she owed $25,000.00 - no explanation.  I was freaking, not only was I grieving but having to worry about this.  I wrote a very nice letter, sent them a copy of her death certificate, and said I thought the issue was a roll-over of an IRA.   My mom didn't have much money and I knew that she had rolled over one so I was just guessing.   They sent me a letter a couple of weeks later saying the situation had been resolved and no monies due.  I  don't know what the problem was, but 5 years later I still have that letter.