You know your job as an MT sucks when: - s/msg

- You work full-time, often more than 40 hours a week, and you still qualify for food stamps, special rates on your utilities, and partial unemployment because actual dictation you get each day is so sparse.

- Although you're one of the "lucky" ones who has some form of insurance, you still don't visit a doctor because you can't come up with the copayments.

- It's been years since you actually went inside a retail store and bought a new item.  You can no longer even imagine what that must be like.  You get everything you need from the secondhand stores and the free ads on Craigslist.

- You drive your car so little, in order to save on gas, that you have to go out and start it once a week, just to be sure the battery is still charged.

- Your transcription headset is older than most of your friends.

- Your neighbors don't know who you are, because you rarely poke your head outside the front door.  99% of your waking hours are spent at your computer.

- Your pay has dropped so low, that next year you probably won't have to pay any taxes at all.

- Your team leader treats you like you're an unemployable imbecile.

- Because of the above, you hope they'll just fire you and get it over with, but of course that will never happen.

- You have physically assaulted your computer, and killed it (pretending it was your company's CEO), even though you knew you'd have to go without life's basic necessities in order to buy another one, so you could keep on working.  Doesn't matter.  It felt good.