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Production pay MT job versus hourly pay MT job - steph1

Posted: Apr 13, 2013

So, I am considering applying for an MT position with a local clinic for an hourly wage and bennies. I woud have to be in-house for a year and then could come home. I work for a large MTSO now that has had many changes recently, and I am uncertain of my future with them or this business PERIOD! I have been contemplating getting out of this line of work altogether and going back to school, but with my age and needing to work to support my family I am not sure this is a good choice either. Just wanting to get some other opinions if you were in my shoes?

Nowadays I would be ecstatic to have an hourly - MSmt

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paying job. With production MT going away rapidly, you are extremely lucky to find an hourly paying MT job. If it is not too far from home and your gas bill won't be extremely expensive to and from work, I would grab hold of it and not let go. Good luck!

try the hourly - MTMT

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You might end up getting to come home sooner than a year. Then again, you just might find you actually like going out to a job and won't mind staying in-house. On the other hand, if you're working in-house and decide you don't really like that job, well, now you've got your foot in the door and could see what other opportunities they might have.

Good luck!

Go for it! - hourly

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I left a production job with a small-ish MTSO to work for a large family practice for hourly pay. I'm working part time (and making more money compared to FT on production) with PTO after a year. No weekends, no holidays. I got a Christmas bonus and a raise after 90 days. I trained in house for 5 weeks before being able to come home again. I've met all the other MTs I work with and just stopped in this week at the office to see my manager. I have NO IDEA what any of the people I used to work with even look like.

I too was thinking of getting out of MT completely before this opportunity came along, but I had no idea what I wanted to do and really couldn't afford to go back to school right now.

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