Challenges

Posted By: lilly on 2006-06-24
In Reply to: Sounds fair to me, and here's my take on it. sm - Southern MT

Thank you for the well-rounded advice. I'm going to suck it up and take advantage of learning all these different styles/accounts. I suppose if I can do this I'll be confident enough to ask for a well-deserved raise!!! Struggling to meet your line count really weighs on you sometimes....it drives your confidence straight down!!! It is very difficult to get into a good rhythm when your down and feeling lost on an account!!! Thanks again to everyone who responded - I think every response had some truth!!!! I'm learning this business is like a wild animal ....so many different variants coming into play which can make you or break you - Just have to also learn the skill of not letting anything get in your way - or bring you down - that wasn't on our job requirements was it?? I thought I just needed a great ear, great typing fingers, medical terminology out of the ying yang, tons of experience, maybe a degree or CMT - We all need that and the mental strength to deal w/our crazy famillies while working, the phone ringing about this bill and that, going up and down from one week to the next with our incomes, never knowing exactly what is going on as far as job security - we must have the ability to push all the stress aside and stay positive - I find this ability to be the most challenging yet!! I don't believe anybody offers a class or course in this do they? Do I just need a psychiatrist? Ha!! Lets all take our vitamins, Ginko, B12 and such...To any superisors out there - words of encouragement sometimes does make or break us...please don't hold back on saying some positive things once in awhile!!! To all fellow MTs lets embrace the challenges of today's jobs, be thankful for what we have and prove we can succeed - then lets all demand a raise!!

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Common practice? - lilly
- Does this company name start with A? nm - think I was there
  - Nope - lilly
- Sounds fair to me, and here's my take on it. sm - Southern MT
  - I have never heard anybody complain about - too much work. sm
  - Challenges - lilly
- The advantage to the MTSO is - Lillian
  - This is for big company, not MTSO. - no name, no state
    - Could be that you are in a work pool and...sm - Southern MT
      - I understand all that. - no name, no state
- Like I said before...you start making decent money - sm
  - Not to sound paranoid, but I tend to agree. - hotfingers
- Just left a company that kept doing that to me! - no name, no state
- Multiple Accounts - MTing
  - Multiple accounts - Randy
- Not common, and not productive.. - anon
- Not common and I think a bit abusive as it prevents you from getting the lines you COULD be - getting with fewer accts. nm
- RE: Common practice? - 654321
  - That was not necessary and abusive IMO. nm - sheesh

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