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Looking for other jobs that use "MT expertise/terminology" might be - like nailing one foot to the floor...

Posted: May 26th, 2017 - 5:18 am In Reply to: Non-MT job suggestions - Peaches

99% of the jobs available today have nothing to do with the language of medicine...and for most MTs, the "computer skills" we've picked up doing this work are really pretty limited when it comes right down to it. You can tell that just by reading some of the computer-related questions posted here and on other MT boards.

Online MA training? I don't think so. You'll be competing with graduates of real 2-year junior college degree programs that are more like what 2-year nursing programs used to be a few years ago, including substantial medical science and clinical training, followed by an externship, and capped off by a nationally-recognized board exam and certification.

And you still wind up at the bottom of the pecking order, with plenty of frustrations in that regard. Among others, such as absolutely frightful patients to deal with...and all for not a lot more money than MTs make?

Plenty of MAs are wishing they'd just gone into nursing in the first place, and there are universities/colleges offering programs to help them move on up by accepting their associate degrees as a springboard to the 4-year nursing degree. (They don't accept any of the 9-month-wonder online MA programs in that regard.)

So...frying pan into the fire?

Not saying that jobs don't pop up here and there that might be related to your MT background in some way, but the vast majority of jobs being created today and tomorrow will not. What you might ask yourself instead are questions about *yourself* in terms of your innate talents, your personality and your OTHER life experiences, and how those might fit (probably, yes, with other training) into the future world of work. There's a big world out there.

"MT experience" is one of those boxes that you should probably think outside.





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