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$15 an hour. - Briana

Posted: Feb 13, 2012

I don't know why I picked $15 an hour for this little experiment, but for some reason it strikes me that across the board that's about what a lot of MTs are averaging these days. Could be a bit more, a bit less, but I had to pick a number.

The experiment:

1. Identify other jobs paying similar rates.

2. Select some that generally come close to what I might call the "ambience" of MT as it now exists.

I think I've found it, and here is where I wish with all my heart that I could post a link but I'll have to do the best I can by providing enough key words that you can possibly find it yourself on Google.

What you get to do in this job is live in a 39-foot trailer in the woods of Missouri (near the east gate of Ft. Wood) where there is no TV reception, one country radio station and very limited cell phone reception. Your days will not be idle in this bucolic paradise, for you will spend your time scraping the skins of beavers, coons, possums, fox, bobcats and other critters. (Note: Must be very good at scraping, as your employer doesn't want holes all over the skins.)

The camper has a full bath, washer and dryer, and one bedroom as well as a hide-a-bed sofa when you wish to entertain. If you live close, you can commute, and heck, if you do a little trapping yourself your employer will probably buy all your skins.

Oh, yes - and you're an independent contractor, too!

People on the trapping forum where this job was posted mentioned that the job might be a bit smelly, but hey - we're used to smelly stuff, right?!

I don't think I should have to point out how easy it should be for any modern-day MT to slip right into this job and feel right at home.

Soon I hope to post more opportunities like this, so I'd appreciate it if all of you wouldn't gallop into the woods of Missouri like a herd of turtles, which would scare away the critters and ruin this fine job for someone.

NWO - JW

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You are referring to the concentration camp, right? That's where all of us terrorists are going if we don't keep our mouths shut about this kind of thing.

classic example of why - I do not want

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Briana as the spokesperson for the MT community. :eyes rolling:

Briana - jan2

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Briana? What the...!!??!! My brain hurts!

Umm...I think it was a bit of satire. - Check your internet speed.

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Your connection is either too fast or too slow.

Umm... - jan2

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Check your kindness. I've been out of work for a year now and want REAL HELP from this site not stuff that isn't going to help me and isn't just a waste of time and, I might add, a bit of "showing off."

What kind of "help" are you looking for? - Briana

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I can't think how my posts have the slightest thing to do with your being out of work for a year, or how they in any way interfere with your solving that problem.

There's a little disconnect between you being out of work for a year and spending even a moment of your time to criticize my posts, which don't make the slightest difference to your situation one way or the other.

Or, maybe there is a connection.

But here's some help anyway. There are many services that don't advertise for help on the internet job boards. You can use the online yellow pages to look up MT services virtually anywhere in the country, and simply try contacting them without knowing in advance whether they happen to need help or not, whether they use remote MTs, or anything else.

You never know what you'll find, but I know what you'll find if you don't look, and it's a lot like what you've found up until now.

Meanwhile, don't you worry about my posts or anyone else's. You have something way more important to be thinking about.

Briana - jan2

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Don't need any help from you. You're too condescending and full of yourself.

I like your posts, Briana. Satire seems to be wasted - on this concrete-thinking-only bunch. -nm-

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=/

here's my puppy, give it a kick too - inflated sense of importance

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The thing I like about politics is seeing the hutvah of the candidates. Who chooses to critize the others, who stands up under fire.

This site is not set up for popularity contests, though. I just can't help but wonder why Briana left what other MT environment to come here to enlighten or "help" all of us. Condescending posts don't followers create.

chutzpah - is probably the word

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you were looking for.

You could look it up.

Don't pay any attention - to the humorless and

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self-absorbed linear thinkers. Some people wouldn't recognize or understand satire or anything more challenging than a knock-knock joke if it walked up and peed on their shoes.

SO well-said!!! -nm - Non-linear

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I agree totally!! I am sitting here wondering why and how - sm

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people would hit the dislike button. They have no sense of humor, that much is obvious!!

Yes, we all know... - wheres_my_job

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the main thing as women who work at-home, and are getting screwed in our jobs, the main thing we need is humility at a time like this...

You're kidding right? - mtlt

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I started trapping with my dad when I was growing up. That's how we survived a lot of times. During the rainy, snowy, icy, etc. days he made more trapping and digging ginseng and blood root than he did logging or roofing. We were pretty comfortable. We didn't have electric most of the time. We grew a garden, hunted, and fished. We didn't have a washer and dryer either. Try a washboard with lye soap and a clothesline. So yeah, we were pretty comfortable without all the radio, phone, TV, etc. distractions that I have today. As for the smell, I love the smell of coon and fox hides. They remind me of my dad.

To mtlt - jan2

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She's serious. Like I said above, she condescending.

smh.... That's all I know to do. nm - mtlt

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Brianna - Anonymous

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Which part of your job is smelly? Personally, I'm not "used to smelly stuff," which is why I chose to work in an office. I can think of a lot of jobs that pay $15 an hour and less, a lot of people are happy to have them. Don't belittle what many think is decent pay. As far as I know, none of us work in a 39-foot trailer in the woods. If this is satire, I'm afraid I did miss the point. If this is what you think of medical transcription and your attitude about your colleagues in general, it's time to step aside and let those of us who take our work seriously and approach it with a professional attitude have the jobs. Actually, I have a great sense of humor. So do most of us when something is funny, your post was not.

Oh, here it comes. - why should she step aside?

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Seriously, if you don't like her posts, what makes you the goddess of telling her to "step aside and let those of us who take our work seriously and approach it with a professional attitude have the jobs?" La-di-da!! I take my job seriously, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate a little satire to lighten the mood. If you don't like her posts, they are always signed; just don't read 'em! You go, Briana!

May I ask you please not to read my posts? - Briana

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I can understand your point of view, but you also understand mine so there's really no need for us to exchange messages about this, right?

Rather than... - whoknows

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Or, instead of doing this job outside of where Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri,is, perhaps you would be more effective to walk through the gates and join the thousands who are defending our freedom. Typically, though, armchair philsophers aren't the most courageous. LOL

right, only people shipped off to war zones... - wheres_my_job

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..."defend our freedom." Maybe they're not defending "our" freedom after all, they're protecting the interests of big oil with their obscene profits, and endless efforts to block alternative energy.

If MTs as a whole were "more courageous" we wouldn't be seeing the drastic pay cuts that we're seeing...and we'd be organized in ways to make it a LOT easier for us to transition to other careers...no, let's have everybody reinvent the wheel, and struggle our way out on our own.

oh brother - whoknows

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Normally, I would not react to this absurd post and the big oil, but I must with this. The big oil is for YOU sister and ME because we are gluttons in this country. And, no-where in my post did I type that "MTs as a whole" should be more courageous. Read before reacting.

But, here's the more important point, and I know many, many others are in the same situation. I have two brothers serving right now and one oversees. If you think these folks aren't protecting your freedom from all kinds of terrorism that YOU will never know about, then you are ignorant. Maybe you should go spend a day in SYRIA and see what ya think about our military presence.

oh sister - give it a rest - wheres_my_job

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Are your brothers over there 'cause there are no jobs here? I just laugh, sorry (military on one side of my family). Boo-hoo, big bad terrorists, I'm shakin' in my boots - 2 biggest terrorists we had in US were Bush and Cheney. Make me laugh, I need one.

You seem miserable... - whoknows

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and ate up. I don't care if this gets me knocked out of here or not. I will defend the people out there giving you the right to have a nasty voice anytime. I was originally talking to the OP anyway, buzz off.

Have a Nice Day - wheres_my_job

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:)

You seem miserable... - whoknows - wheres_my_job thinks she has all the answers

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All posts run the same,...big bag of wind.

interesting - whoknows

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Although not true on both our parts, that is clever. I am grateful you pointed out to me how miserable I sound. I am changing my approach. I respect your post completey, and I am not being sarcastic at all. Believe me. I am sorry I reacted to all this at all.

interesting - whoknows - Not miserable at all

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Saw nothing wrong with your posts at all. Unfortunately, the one jumping all over you sounds like the miserable one; always complaining about something or someone. No need to apologize from what I can see (not saying what you should do, just saying).

You had to hunt under a lot of rocks to - come up with this insult.

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...and especially considering you know absolutely nothing about the "armchair philosopher" you're trying to insult.

The question is, what is it that motivates you to do this sort of thing (and portray yourself in such a bad light by so doing)?

TY - whoknows

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Why, thank you, myjob.

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