Oh My Freakin' Goodnes... From a WHOLE FREAKIN' YEAR AGO..... - NocturnalHooter

I will almost certainly get banned for "cutting-and-pasting" this...  but here goes anyway....

Oh my Gosh - I disagree in so many ways - see message

Posted: Jan 30th, 2011 - 4:05 am In Reply to: We are a "dime a dozen" and it is our own fault - NocturnalHooter

1. We didn't loose our profession when we decided to work from home. It was a choice we made. I am still an MT whether I work in an office or at my home office. Nothing has been lost. However, some of us became MTs so that we could work at home and take care of the kids and work a schedule that allows us to do just that.

2. Not all men go outside the home to work to "provide for their families". That sounds so 1940s. Lots of men also work at home. My brother divides his time between his office and working at home 50/50. Also, this is the year 2011. Lots of families need 2 incomes to make ends meet. We aren't the little missus barefoot in the kitchen while "the husband provides for the family". Both our paychecks go into the same pot.

3. Everyone's job is different, hence everyone's salary is different. People know well ahead of time (during the interview process) what the job pays. They have to choice to either accept or refuse it. As for the "shame" comment...???

4. Working at home IS a benefit (and a huge one). I no longer have to get up at 6 am iron what I'm going to wear, jump in the shower, put on the face cake and, make coffee to put in a thermos, make lunch, jump in the car (or in the winter time shovel the driveway and wait for the car to heat up), drive an hour or more to work dealing with the people on the road with anger management problems, deal with all the office politics, do the same job there I do here, then drive another hour home, make dinner and have maybe 1 hours of free time to myself. Working at home IS a benefit. I get up take my shower and start work within 15 minutes. No working wardrobe, no gas bill, no people cutting me off in traffic, etc, etc. I can do the laundry or run errands at lunch. I certainly do not miss the office politics.

5. Of course we provide a real service and some of us get paid well. You don't "demand" anything. I cant even tell you how many times this has been talked about on this board. The MT industry is not what it used to be. In today's economic times things are tough. Not only in our profession but in many. People are not getting paid what they used to, and for many people their jobs are never coming back. I am grateful to have what I do. Would I like to make what I did 10 years ago...you bet I would, but this is 2011. Businesses (to include hospitals) have to cut back too. I'm just grateful to have my job. Things are not going back to what they used to and people need to deal with it. You don't "demand" payment. The company tells you what the pay is. You then have the choice to accept or refuse and move on.

6. No, this is not a "feminist" issue and to say it is one lessens the severity of real feminist issues. There are also men working in this field and they are facing the same issues we are. We are not being discriminated against because we are women.

7. Profession or pasttime??? I don't know about you, but I am a professional MT. Been doing this for 20 years now. Will probably do it for another 20 or so until I retire (or the end of the world happens - whichever comes first). I love my job. I work hard. I have a home office and it is no different than working in an office at another location. I respect my supervisors. I do the job they hired me to do.

Times are changing. Not only our country but other countries around the world. You just have to move with the times. Nothing is the same as it was years ago. I wish it was, but its not. My mom told me a long time ago to learn to deal with the changes. Sure saves a lot of headaches.

I'm not sure where to start with this, but WILL TRY!!!!!!

We can deal with changes.  Or we can fight for change!!!!