FYI
Posted By: MOMT on 2007-01-23
In Reply to: Last post on this subject! - LISA
Actually unrelated but I wanted to share with you the story of my first day as an MT.
This was 1986 and I had just finished a Medical Office Assistant course (MT was only one part of it and VERY MINIMALLY covered). I applied for a temporary MT job.....~only~ because my fellow classmates were also applying. I wanted to do clinical work rather than clerical. LOL
So I went and took the test and the doc was a FANTASTIC dictator. It was a simple office H&P. The interview was on a Friday. I got a call Monday morning from the office manager. Back up a little.....an MT was PG and this was to cover her maternity leave. Anyway, the office manager called to say the MT had the baby a month early and he asked her if any of the applicants were good enough to hire and she said she had only interviewed a few and MY NAME was the only one she remembered because I was the only one she felt did a good job :)
So I took the job. I was 20 years old. It was transcribing for 4 cardiologists. The wonderful dictator, a mush mouth, a speed taker, and a doc who procrastinated but then when he did dictate he'd give you hundreds of minutes of dictation and want it done STAT. GRRRRRRRRRRR
So, I was transcribing the speed talker just before lunch ON MY FIRST DAY and I was near tears. The other 2 MTs helped ~so~ much. This was office MT work, not acute care (hospital) which is MUCH harder, but I still struggled. At lunch that first day I had thoughts of NOT going back. BUT I'm not a quitter so I went back in and faced it. I actually got to the point where I liked speedy and got used to mush mouth and his ways. LOL. Dr. Procrastinator and I got along great so he knew I would get his stuff to him as soon as I *possibly* could. After the 2 months was over I hated to leave, but there was no money in the budget or BIG NEED at the time for another MT. So I got another job. Three months later the office manager called me and said they CREATED a new MT position just for me!!!! AND....it was for the 4 cardiologist!!!! I accepted and I have been an MT ever since :)
Good things can happen....sometime we just need to hang in there. Try not to have extremely high expectations, but if you can handle it financially then don't compromise on what you NEED.
Good luck :)
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