They might not, but I would still get satisfaction knowing I didn't keep quiet about it. sm

• Dropping AHDI and CMT - anyone else? - VA MT
  • Agree - Alice
  • We should ALL write them & - catsxoxo
    • Whew, I feel better! - catsxoxo
      • Good for you! - VA MT
        • I looked around the USMLSU site but didn't see much...nm - TechSupport
          • Evidently the site is brand new - VA MT
            • I've got 'em on my radar screen...thanks! nm - TechSupport
  • dropping AHDI - fedupMT
  • Perfectly rotten organization...sm - TechSupport
  • I failed to rejoin AAMT aka ADHI four years ago. - I am right behind you.
  • I dropped my CMT about 5 years ago... - Zville MT
  • I dropped my AAMT and CMT 15 years or so ago because - dnr
  • I dropped my membership after 13 years. - Sorry I waited so long to do it!
  • I would write a letter to AHDI and tell THEM, too, why you are dropping. sm - Confetti
    • To Confetti - anon
      • They might not, but I would still get satisfaction knowing I didn't keep quiet about it. sm - Confetti
        • Apathy gets us nowhere - VA MT
    • Good suggestion. - VA MT
      • Sombeody actually wrote a really good letter to Advance a few issues back. sm - Confetti
        • May have missed that letter to editor (small msg) - VA MT
  • Your gut instincts are right - anon
    • Your gut instincts are right - VA MT
      • AHDI should be investigated by the gov't. - sm - Topaz
        • Need an association who gets back to being for MTs! - VA MT
          • I'm down for that! sm - TechSupport
            • Not anti-AHDI but pro-US MTs - VA MT
              • I respectfully disagree....sm - TechSupport
                • Points well taken, thank you. - VA MT
          • Heck yeah. Need leaders to come forward, moderators, a sense of patriotism (we pay taxes). - I am right behind you.

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Here is another poll. I would like to hear from anybody with MT experience, but I am especially interested to hear from MTs with 10+ years experience.

If you had to do it over again, would you still have gotten into the field of MT?

I feel like I really have to push myself to get the work done.  I hate the feast and famine of the work.  I hate working weekends and holidays with no incentives.  I feel unappreciated and isolated with this job.  People act like this career is a joke and I must have plenty of time on my hands, so why don't I just drive to their house tonite?  The only reason I'm keeping the job I have is because of the pay and haven't found the same pay anywhere else!  There aren't a lot of choices anymore and not much medical work in this area so...would have to work for a national and I not only hate working for a national, I hate the pay!

Good luck with what you decide.  There are many things you can do without spending a lifetime in school.  Start checking the papers.  There are other jobs where you can work at home also.

truly keeps me motivated....the mortgage is HUGE....*bites nails* 

*lol*

one should make after 19 years?  I ALWAYS short-change myself and would love to know how to know when it is okay to push for more and when it doesn't matter because they won't go any higher.  A couple of weeks ago, for example, somebody said Diskriter offered them nearly 10 cpl, but I had 18 years of experience when I interviewed with them last year, and they said 8 cpl was as high as they would go.  If I had said, no thanks, I have to have more per line, would they have gone higher?  Somebody explain to me how to negotiate...  I would hate for my paycheck to be 20% less because I'm not savvy enough in this regard.

I am in the very same situation as the first poster, although I do have a reliable ISP and connect at 50+ Kbps all the time.

I know nothing about wireless and am wondering if it would be advantageous for me. Please keep in mind, I not the most computer literate person. :D Could you explain it to me in further detail? If you would like, please feel free to send me an E-mail.

Thanks so very much.

Sandi

Try to find a site that helps you determine a good fit for your likes and skills. You may also want to consider some community college course(s) in subjects of interest to you to help determine where you want to go. Look at this as an opportunity to try something completely different if you're so inclined.

That you'll never have to take it again!

Well, at least until you're 80.

tragedy.  So I'm pretty sure I'd look WITHIN and gather strength and then focus that on my kids and getting them through school.  Plus I'd need to so some weight losing/revamping to go looking for another man!

But the "traumatic amputation" thing.  I just posted about that the other day on another board, saying my aunt told me when my uncle died it was not like a death, it was like an amputation, because they were so close.  Just wondered if you picked that up from there.

and solitude and are more introverted than extroverted.  Most people don't understand the nature of the job and the skill set it requires along with the personality.  We are not librarians but we have to have the aptitude and the research skills that most librarians have along with a desire for knowledge and understanding of medicine.  People who have to be around people all the time naturally would think people who worked from home and actually liked it were odd. Just look at all the people looking for jobs they can do at home these days. Most people think jobs from home are scams.  MT is a legitimate job and for some quite lucrative.  No one has it easy these days with the job market the way it is so maybe some people only wish they had MT skills and get frustrated because they are stuck and have to play the people game every day.

But most MDs dictate near the unit stations where the nurses and other people are talking loud and seemingly don't care that there is an MD there trying to dictate.

I STILL work for MQ (only on weekends for 9 years and work privately during the week).  They quit the *cesspool* stuff and have given us all 3 accounts (possibly more for other people).  I sometimes do get a 4th account if all my 3 others are done.

Have a good one!!! 

Trying to avoid interruptions in the home.:)  Any of you work from an added room or trailer that you turned into an office?  Closing the door is not an option.  Would need to actually leave the house even if it is to go to a room added on or to a camper in the yard.  Wondering if others have done the same thing.   I saw in the paper where a company rents out an office for a day, a week, or however long you need it for.  Wondering if that would be worth it just to have the chance to work in peace.

And then you just walk away or change the subject to something like, "DO I SMELL SMOKE?!!

I'm actually thinking "David, shut up." But that not only is not nice, I'm sure there is a "go to hell" card in his "Meet My New Religion" game for that expression.

Goooooood luck

And don't get married because you're going to fry in hell if you don't. Trust me, it only makes more laundry and dishes.

Merry Christmas!!!