Sorry to be blunt, but some of it came by way of her own doing.
Posted By: SM on 2005-09-28
In Reply to: she needs support - not more downplaying
She has made poor choices, BUT, she sounds like a hard working forward looking lady who CAN make it on her own. She just needs to unload the loser boyfriend, learn from her mistakes, and just concentrate on her kids and her own life and put men on the back burner for now, lest there be MORE kids brought into an unstable relationship.
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Being blunt is okay and
surgically, there will be no more kids. 
Yes, I have made poor choices. Of the five men I have dated in my entire life, I married and divorced one, dated one for 6 months, 2.....I dated for two months, and have been involved with this one for 3 years. And yes, that includes dating during high school. There has been a total of 4.
But yes, I am a very hard worker, owned 1/2 a dairy farm, I know of hard work, expenses and hard times.
Yes, it's blunt, but it is what it is...sm
and I agree with you.
Too many MTs are still graduating from MT schools which lured them into their program by false pretenses, for their profits only.
These newbies do not get any jobs, there aren't enough.
Additionally EMR and VR also make many MTs obsolete.
When will people realize that it does not pay anymore to get into the MTing field.
You can be honest w/o being blunt
There was a huge discussion about negativity a few days back on the main board, and many were in denial about rude comments taking place. WELL - HERE YOU GO. Prime example. You know - you can be honest without being blunt and rude. Did that ever occur to you?
Being blunt, does not mean being rude!!
Just because you do not like the answer, does not mean it is rude. Not everything needs to be "sugar coated."
She was blunt but in a nice way. sm
I don't mind hearing what I need to hear if it is done in a nice way.
I am guilty of not minding my grammar on MTstars. I just kind of do the same thing I do when emailing friends or something. If it is a problem, I will watch my grammar on here. Personally, I don't think I am the only one who does it though.
Geesh, you get flamed for being blunt and you
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Simple truth, if blunt, from National MT. SM
Please note that the figures cited are averages--a lot of people do significantly better working 40 hours a week, or less. And that's the simple truth too.
As is the reality that the higher earners are pros who've been at it for some years--it makes a tremendous difference in line counts to not have to look terms up. They're typically very familiar with their accounts--busy knocking out reports instead of trying to figure out a physian's name. They're either killer typists or have built Expanders with tens of thousands of entries, doubling their typing speed, or both.
And they're disciplined workers who put in a real 30-40 hours a week of production time--not fooling themselves that they're working when they're not, whatever the reason, including slow periods in work. If an employer can't keep them working most of the time, they find a new job. Their high line counts earn incentive pay bonuses--consistently--that bump their base pay a whole cent or two per line. Or they're just paid more per line because they're good and they and their employer know it.
These are uncertain times, and incomes are going down for some, including some pros. And the shift to production pay is very hard for many who are accustomed to being paid based on the hours they show up; 8 hours a day of genuine typing, pushing, pushing to knock quality work out quickly, is much harder. But it's still possible for a skilled MT to make decent and even good money 40 hours a week.
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