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Congratulations on the offer!!!

I really understand your predicament.  Let me share with you something my aunt shared with me a few years ago.

She worked as a large company and was offered a promotion that came with a yearly salary as opposed to hourly wages.  It looked like a very decent raise, and so she took the offer.

She said it was a very large mistake on her part.  She was literally on-call 24/7, including weekends, holidays, vacation, etc.  She was contacted at all hours day and night if there were a problem or concern.  If staff was short due to call offs, she was expected to go in (even on holidays or her days off) to fill the void.  If she tried to go on vacation, she had to leave contact information in case she was needed (and she was very frequently contacted about problems or with questions when she was supposedly on vacation). 

I went to work for the same company several years later.  I was quickly promoted, and my aunt told me to accept all of the offers of promotion I received UNLESS it comes with an annual salary rather than hourly pay.  She said once she accepted the annual salary position, her life was not her own any longer, the company owned her 24/7 and 365.  I always kept that in mind whenever I was offered a salaried position, whether by that particular company or any other company.

The job offer sounds wonderful, but if you can make that same amount of money now, and even more if you increase your hours with your current IC position, I'd suggest you give serious consideration to what sacrifices you may be required to make should you decide to accept the offer.  As another poster said, sometimes it's not always good to rock the applecart unless you absolutely have to. 

Good luck with your decision, whatever it may be, and keep us posted.  If you do accept the other offer, I hope it turns out to a great decision for you.

Somebody recently mentioned a site where you can go and put a * in the part of the word that you can't get.  Example: 

ap*ectomy = appendectomy.

Can you tell me again where this site is?  It's sooooooooo helpful!!

Thanks!  

I am afraid that's one of my problems--thinking I'll wait until the end but then forgotting.  I am trying really hard to pay attention to every detail and then just be confident and let it go! 

many posts asking for help with words or phrases that are clearly in reference books that most MTs should have.  Don't MTs buy their own reference material anymore or do they rely strictly on the internet.  Most the words and phrases asked about on the Word Board could be found just by buying the medical phrase index or the Surgical Word Book or some of these other word books and building up a reference library. 

What happened to building up the library and searching and learning?  I just looked at some of the Word Help stuff tonight and a lot of it is ridiculous stuff that an MT could very easily find.

Any opinions?  Im not talking about blanks where you just can't understand what they are saying.  I am talking about specific instruments and phrases.  Seems like it happens an awful lot and MTs don't want to search or maybe don't know where to search or don't know what reference material is out there to buy?

Lots of this stuff could be found in just the two books I mentioned above.  Just curious

Fivecharactersandakeystroke.

Oops ... forgot to include the space bar.  

"Most are not even MTs anymore, bunch of redneck southerners mostly. Lost of dirty talk."

It it wasn't about people in the south, there would have been no need to inject term "redneck southerners." The poster could simply have said "people."

So, it seems to me YOU have the problem with reading comprehension.   

I'll keep trying. I really hope that something comes of it.  I'm surprise at how many people have had success at it.  With living in Las Vegas and working at home, the chances of meeting someone good are slightly diminished on my own. 

I have AutoCorrect straighten out for me.

IOW, suppose I always typed "pateint" rather than "patient." The the REPLACE box I would type the incorrect spelling and in the WITH box I would type the correct spelling.

And then I never have to worry about things again.

she's been struggling with dry throat (LA smog).  She handled being voted off well.  Poor Kevin, people must vote for him because they feel sorry for him.  Ace is easy on the eyes but his singing isn't that great. 

Your kind words are much apprciated, and they made me smile.

I feel sorry for this poster, because I know what she's going through.  Nothing will rip a mother's heart out faster than a child, but you know there are many times that there is just nothing we can do.  To keep your sanity, you just have to go with the flow and let it go.  Realize when you're fighting a battle that you cannot win.  The sad, but true, facts.

Have a happy day.....