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As I am approaching my transition into the medical field, I am feeling a little nervous. I love my current job but there is no long term future here, and even if I were to stay here and try to move up, I would be doing a different job, more paperwork, less of what I like doing and more sitting behind a desk (which is what I’m trying to get away from by going into the medical field). My co-workers accept me, I get to meet lots of different people (I work in shipping and receiving so I get to meet truck drivers and chit chat with them about different parts of the country), I have a big sunny window, it is close to home, and I get my own office where I can listen to music at a reasonable volume, check my phone without getting yelled at, and I feel like I am part of this team-part of The Wolf Pack-which I have always wanted. I have worked plenty of desk jobs where I was an outsider, I was too young to relate to anyone, the drive was terrible, I was in old, dusty, moldy, windowless buildings.
I’ll be an X-Ray tech and in 8 months I’ll have to quit my job so I can do externships during the day. Does anyone here have a job they love with a paycheck they are happy with? Anyone go to school to do something, get a job in their field and love it? I guess it’s a gamble like anything else and I can always leave and find another place if I don’t like it there. I’ve yet to get a college degree in something else, so finding a job for me was always hard-the jobs I could do-office assistant, receptionist, secretary-those jobs go fast and even then they want you to have an associate’s degree. The other options-retail or restaurant, well I did that for 4 years. Not for me anymore. I’ve never had the luxury of “I don’t like it here, I’m finding another job”. I’ve always had to deal with crappy co-workers, long commutes and less than awesome working environments (rats in the kitchen? Ew) because I was lucky to have even that.
I think I will like being able to move around, be on my feet some (hopefully sit down some too with my bad back), having the option of working a nontraditional schedule, meeting lots of new people. Is anyone here in the medical field? What do you like and dislike about it?I will probably be of little help. I love my job… not all of it, but enough of it to be happy with it! But my pay, well, it’s at or below minimum wage. So that is my tradeoff, I guess!
I think that some people do have jobs they love that pay well. I have friends that make VERY good money, essentially doing what they love to do most.Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comI tried to get into the medical field as well. I was laid off in January of 2010 back when the economy was really bad and finding jobs was very hard to do. Put in lots of applications and got only a handful of responses–usually a no go. I decided to go back to school to be a medical assistant. I’ve always liked the medical field.
Well I finished the two year program at a local junior college and did an internship at the facility I has hoping to work for. I volunteered at this facility a good year before I graduated to try and network myself. People loved me and when I did my internship, I got positive feedback from those I was working with. I loved it and was even told by one of the patients, who was also a doctor, that I’ll do well as a medical assistant.
I put in my applications to about 9 jobs the facility had–one by one I was given the no go–position has been cancelled, in other words, they found someone else. This facility claimed to give those who did internship with them priority–well it didn’t work for me. Contacting my fellow students, they were having the same problem and the one thing we all had in common was that we were all over 45.
Finances were dwindling for me and I had to do something to get a steady income in so I went for a widow’s pension. Not exactly what I wanted to do but had to.
I’m not trying to discourage you–if you’re young enough, you will have a chance. If I could have held on a little longer, maybe I would have eventually gotten hired. I’ll never know. I did enjoy my studies and my internship–showed me that this was the right fit for me.
Sometimes we go for the stars and get burnt. I’m doing okay and my friends tell me that things happen for a reason. Don’t know about that yet. But deep down I felt I missed my calling–this is what I should have been doing all along. I hope that you do realize your dream and wish you the best.
I don’t have any advice about working in the medical field.
I absolutely LOVE my job!! It allows me to do my two favorite things in the whole wide world: stay home and take care of my lil ones and go shopping everyday! I recently started this new venture last spring. I’m an aspiring extreme couponer. I surf the interwebs in search of coupons, then I cross reference to see what kind of sales those particular stores are having. While my boys are at school, I take those coupons and go shopping for all sorts of fun things! Then I rented some floor space in a store about a half hour from my home, once a week I go to the store to stock my shelves/racks. At the beginning of every month the store gives me a check (-rent, credit card fees, and my share of the cashier’s pay). I also have an eBay store, but I can’t say I love that as much (I’m really timid when it comes to dealing with customer’s problems). All in all, I only actually work a couple hours a day, everyday, but I can do it at my leisure and all of my bills are paid (for the first time in six years!)
**going back and reading this, I just realized that I sound like a spam email, LOL!**I love my job as well. I work in the entertainment industry restoring old archival film. Basically my job involves me sitting in front of a computer cleaning up film dirt, scratches, and other blemishes. I also fix color problems, such as faded old film. Most of the films I am work on are 1930s-40s German films as well as Russian and American films. I also transfer customer’s old Super8 film to video. Oh, and I also restore old audio from records, old films and reel to reel. It may sound like a lot of work, but I get to work at my own pace, and listen to music, and visit this website sometimes haha. Only thing I don’t like is I work almost always alone, only sometimes working with other people. I really like working with other people, I am a sociable type.
As weird as this may sound, I absolutely love my job as a cashier. I think it is really more of good, fun and supportive work space more than anything else. I love being able to help out customers, and I always make it my goal to be sure everyone leaves with a smile on their whether they come in with one or not.
I have only ever had to job’s and the other place was horrible. It was at a fast food restaurant which in it’s own wasn’t so bad, it was the people you were working with. To start it was a drama kingdom. Now every workplace will have drama, I know this, but here was ridiculous. More than half of the people working there were related in some way (like mother, son, daughter, niece and their boy/girlfriends kinda thing), So the drama was drawn to ridiculous proportions, so and so, said thins, ans so and so broke up with me and is now dating so and so, so I’m not gonna talk to him anymore, even though I’m supposed to be giving him the orders. Not to mention, they made me come in every day the week I had my wisdom teeth pulled, and get this. I used to ride my bike 9 miles one way to work there and my other job that I still have, and was hit by a car commuting from one job to the other. The assistant manager on shift sent me to the hospital an hour later. The main manager wouldn’t give me the time off to recuperate from the internal bleeding and told me that if I didn’t come in she would basically fire, cause “..I am such an important part of the work team, they need me, there is no other person to do my job…”blah,blah,blah. Not to mention she never did anything herself, and would sit in the office answering drive through while playing majong and zynga on her IPad, while I’d be working my butt off until we closed, cleaning all the machines and stuff myself, then tell me I wasn’t working hard enough cause I didn’t finish it all in the one hour after we closed. and If you’ever ask about things being unfair, she’d just smirk and laugh at you saying “aces in their places..”. I quit.
My other job that I am still at has always been great and even though I don’t get paid as much as other jobs, I would’t wanna quit unless I had too or a great opportunity was just dumped on my plate.
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Always open for pyo commissions, repairs and fine artwork! Email me for current prices! awier(@)weaselsoneasels.comThis isn’t going to be any help for your medical field question, but I felt I had to chime in that I love my job. I’m a 7th grade language arts teacher and I absolutely adore it. Despite all the challenges in teaching and public education (and there are many) I love my students and I love my subject. When I can focus on those two things, I couldn’t be any happier. 🙂
I am probably not much help either but I run my own business online buying and selling things and when I don’t sell enough to pay the bills, I go and work for other companies doing sales and marketing and customer service. I really hate jobs though because I haven’t been treated well most places either with managers thinking they are all that and not being fair to the employees. I even worked on cruise ships for a while with kids which I loved but staff were treated like dirt on cruise ships and paid next to nothing so it was basically just to be able to travel and see other places that I did that. I make really good money when I do commission sales for other companies but running my own business I don’t make a lot and it is a little unpredictable. One thing that made me money was to get stuff cheap at auctions where stores are maybe going out of business or buying things at liquidation stores to re-sell. I made good money with that buying and selling furniture and electronics although you do have to spend time and gas picking things up with a truck or having things shipped online and searching the market for prices, what’s a good deal and what you can sell things for. I have some friends who work in the medical field and like their jobs and are paid well so I would say it’s worth giving it a go once you have completed your classes. If you ever change your mind you can always go back to school or find another job but it’s good to try something new and see how you like it. I took interior decorating in College but when the housing market plummeted I couldn’t find a job in that field so that’s when I went into sales instead. I am still thinking of going back though and trying to get a job with decorating, design or real estate.
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I love my job as well. I work in the entertainment industry restoring old archival film. Basically my job involves me sitting in front of a computer cleaning up film dirt, scratches, and other blemishes. I also fix color problems, such as faded old film. Most of the films I am work on are 1930s-40s German films as well as Russian and American films. I also transfer customer’s old Super8 film to video. Oh, and I also restore old audio from records, old films and reel to reel. It may sound like a lot of work, but I get to work at my own pace, and listen to music, and visit this website sometimes haha. Only thing I don’t like is I work almost always alone, only sometimes working with other people. I really like working with other people, I am a sociable type.
Do you ever restore old Russian animations? I love those.
Actually yes Melody! I have only worked on one though. I had to enhance the color on a badly faded film called The Humpbacked Horse or The Magic Pony. It is a really beautiful film from the 1940s. I wish I got to work on more animation!
I think I could honestly say I love my job now. Some of you probably read my post about it when I switched jobs several months ago.
Well, a little background. After high school I did 2 years of community college, and enjoyed some of it (in addition to some normal general ed stuff I took and enjoyed German, piano, archery, auto tech and welding). I didn’t continue with college beyond 2 years, not that I wasn’t smart enough or couldn’t afford it (my parents were capable of helping me), but I just really didn’t have anything I wanted to pursue with it! I hated the idea of tying myself down to a particular major and a career path.
My first job, which was while I went to that college was working part time at a Ross store. It was just a job to make and save a little money while I was still living with my parents, and I didn’t like or hate it. It was customer service though which isn’t exactly my forte (I mean I can be good at it, but I’m not a fan)!
Since then I’ve worked at a dog daycare/boarding place (3 years), at a nursing home/healthcare center as a housekeeper (also 3 years), and now again at another dog daycare/boarding place. My housekeeping job was minimum wage the whole time, and although I like being physically active during the workday, I was overworked. Although my immediate supervisor was good, the company was wretched to us in many ways.
Now I’m glad to be working with dogs again and I’m making a little more money- I got a dollar raise pretty quickly after I began there in July. I often have to get up horribly early but the job is worth it. It’s so nice not having to dread work. The company is also great- the yearly Christmas party is playing laser tag, bowling, and having a buffet dinner- all paid for! My hours are also steadier than they were at the other doggie daycare I worked at.I have no intention of leaving this job. It may not exactly be lucrative, but I can’t imagine myself being happier anywhere else. THAT is what’s important for sure. My husband works also, making barely *slightly* more than I do. It’s still hard to get by but we do, and we’re both blessed with jobs that are well suited to us. He gets to work on cars and I get to work with animals. 🙂
As for the medical field if you’re not wanting to go in too deep, at my last job I learned that to be a CNA you only have to take a course that’s like… 2 weeks I think? A CNA is a nurse assistant. You don’t have to know and do much medical stuff, and you’d have some options, like working at a nursing home, a hospital, and probably other options. It’s also a good base if you decided you wanted to move further in the medical field after experiencing some things and learning what kind of opportunities are out there.
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Love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life! I started out turning wrenches and getting dirty and thought that it was the life. I fought the climb up the ladder for a while because I didn’t want to be the “paper pusher” everyone disdained. Once I made a little rank, though, there was really no point in stalling. As I moved up, I got more responsibility. Now, I’ve been at this job for a while and I am essentially a manager of personnel. I get them trained, fix their pay, send them to school, and make sure there are enough folks left over to fix aircraft and do the odd detail here and there. I thought I would hate it, but I make a big difference in these Soldiers lives and I can see it daily. If there stuff is messed up, I get to fix it. If they need a school, I get to send them, and if someone takes advantage of them, I get to step in and help. I may be a paper pusher, but I am an effective one. I think that if you’re happy at your job, its a wonderful thing, but most duty positions are what you make of them. I hope you like what you signed up for and it’s really unfortunate there is no advancement in your current position, otherwise I’d advise you to stay put! Advancement is good, though, IMO, and sometimes so is change. I hope it works out for you though. It’d suck to hate your job. You spend half your days doing it and in the big scheme of things, it’s not worth wasting half your days in a job you hate.
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