I'm still in it because it's what I'm best at.
Posted By: My 2 cents (per line?) on 2007-06-11
In Reply to: If you are complaining of low pay, why?? - Pattie
I've been at this for a long time. When I chose this career, it paid well - a person could support themselves comfortably on MT wages. When things started to go downhill in the late 80's, early 90's, there was the belief that it was just MY company that this was happening to. I was inhouse at the time, and we were all told we were "lucky to have a job". With no PC or internet access yet, I believed it, and when I read want-ads in papers across the country, I didn't know where all the jobs were going. Many years later, now that I'm online and know the answer to that, it's not realistic at my age to train for an entirely new career, as it would involve so much in the way of prerequisites (going all the way back to high school math) that I'd be an 85-year-old "newbie" at whatever field I chose. Plus I like the nature of MT work, and the flexibility in work hours. I hate corporate culture and office politics, and work better alone. Still, just because MT is an "invisible" profession, I don't feel that should be a reason to pay us worse than the day-laborers you see out on the street corners.
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