There has to be some midground
Posted By: mmTT on 2008-04-18
In Reply to: my soapbox... - banshee
Yes, I am lucky to be an MT that is why I am hanging on so very much. I don't want to put my kids in day care, I don't want to commute to work, I don't want the ups and downs of office politics. But, why, oh why is my worth less in 2008 than it was a couple of years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago? I have only gotten better. I know more than most doctors who are interns, that is, I know the drug name and how to say it, I know parts of the body, every part of the body that a specialist barely remembers. I have to be accurate in my English skills, and every language out there and I am held to about 100% quality even when the doc is not speaking English. Why do I settle? I shouldn't. So, I do research and find the best possible out there. But it is not the old days. We are not valued like gold as one boss once told us. The MTSO knows what we are worth, because they used to be paid the same as I but that MTSO now owns the company, most have sold out so they can have more. And so I get less. Yes, I speak out by leaving, but can only leave and argue so much. Middle ground? For me to make myself work harder than I used to, tell my self every day what I am worth even if the boss and company and industry does not, and succeed because the patient's life depends on it; so does my family because they depend on my bringing benefits and income into the house. These days it is a tight rope. And the psychiatrist agrees. It is not me, it is the industry. Yet, will I give it up? No. So, it's my choice. Either go nuts or do the best I can. Together we do the best we can without selling out, but we do still have the best job around I think. I will tell you one thing, I will tell my kids to choose a good degree in a career that will never lose value. I will teach my kids great self esteem. For me, my parents let me get a liberal arts degree while I had a scientific mind, a smart one, they said "type so you can meet a man and settle down." Yesirree. That won't be my kids. Get the gist? If we can't make it better, just hang in there, and hope that we teach our kids to make it better. Maybe they will remember us in our old age, when we are still typing.
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