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does anyone REALLY love their job anymore? - mt

Posted: May 11, 2010

Lately I have talked to many friends who are all disillusioned with their careers. The state of the economy has made it worse, but I really think the problems existed before that happened.

They come from all walks of life and all occupations. Everyone seems to want out of whatever they are doing. The ones I have spoken to include teachers, attorneys, nurses, doctors, police officers and of course MTs.

Anyone out there know someone with a great and (as stable as it can be) career that they REALLY love?

My sister-in-law loves her job...a stay-at-home mom! - nm

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happy - mt2

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I am very happy being an MT. I am thankful that I have an abundance of work and am at home. I think many times about looking outside the house for a job, but then the first time it rains or snows I would be tempted to quit. LOL. I do get bored sometimes and wish I had more activities outside the home, but overall I am very happy with my chosen profession.

My husband has an odd-ball career that he loves. - Sunshine State MT

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He is a golf ball diver. He has been doing it for a little bit now. He just loves his job. He works for this guy who has the diving contracts on golf courses and my husband will go to a golf course and dive in all the lakes for all the golf balls that people hit in the water. They all get refurbished.

So far it has been pretty stable for him and he really likes it.

I've never even thought of that before! - sm

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I bet he gets a good deal on greens fees too, huh?

You would think, but no he doesn't . . . - Sunshine State MT

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He was so bummed because he's a golfer himself and he thought that it would be one of his perks. All of the courses with one exception will give him no break at all.

The one that does give him "free golf" I guess is a real crappy course.

How cool. Better watch out for alligators! Has this been on - Dirty Jobs?

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Not that it's really dirty or anything, but sounds like something that would fit maybe on that show. I'd like to see it. I think I did see something about it on some show at one time. Anyhoo, your husband or his boss should call and see if Mike will come out and do a show with them. :)

Yes it was and we both missed it. - Sunshine State MT

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He used to work for the guy that was on that episode. It's been on like twice and twice we both missed it.

Alligators are his biggest concerns. If he sees an alligator in one of the ponds he will just get into another one. Sometimes he has to call the alligator trapper because it might be a nuisance.

The funniest story he came home with is he was diving this one gated community golf course. There were a couple of houses close to a lake he was diving in. There was an alligator in the lake but my husband said it was a really small baby alligator, like 2 foot or something, and he got into the lake anyways, which he normally does for the smaller gators. Anyway, one of the residents saw the gator and saw my husband in the water and saw my husband splashing his flippers, which he normally does. Anyways, this lady calls 911 and tells the operator this guy is getting mauled in a lake. Meanwhile my husband is just going about his routine. He said he surfaced and he saw about 10 cops with guns drawn at him in the water and freaked out! He said he yelled out "I work here" and they shouted back "We heard you were being mauled by a gator."

Anyways, it's good that people are looking out for him.

I DO - Marine Mom

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I absolutely love my job. It's been my dream job since I was a pre-teen, and I'm 41 now. Been with the same company for 6 years now, and I love it, love my 3 accounts, love my supervisor and even the 2 previous supervisors, all of it....well my paycheck could be better, but I figure, I could have a job making more money that I am miserable at, so I'm happy sitting at home in my comfy sweats and enjoying my job

Amen to that!!!!! - Happy MT Robin

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I hear you, Marine Mom. The job I had right before I got into MTing paid A LOT more than I make now (and I make a pretty decent living now) but I was suicidal. The money wasn't worth the visions of driving into my garage and shutting the door and leaving the car running, and it darn sure wasn't worth putting up with the kind of garbage I convinced myself to put up with for 4.5 years.

I love this job now. Absolutely love it. No office politics. No small family owned business bull "stuff" and double standards. I worked inhouse for four excruciating months for a large clinic and I'll never do that again. The backbiting and backstabbing and just blech that went on there day after day was interminable.

I'm with Hayseed's post down below. I have a climate controlled environment (as much as it can be controlled with evaporative coolers in the summer in the high mountain desert), I dont' have to deal with people if I don't want to (and I rarely want to), if it's snowing outside in the winter, I get to sit and watch it and make a fresh cup of coffee and go back to work with my slippers on.

It just doesn't get better than that for me.

My fiance does! - Typin_away

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He is an EMT. He make a measly $10 an hour saving lives, but he loves it. He has dreams of going back to school to become a paramedic and then back again to get a degree on being a nurse/paramedic hybrid.

EMT - I have a friend who took that same route

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he is now a flight nurse and love it....very cool!

No, I don't think anyone likes any kind of work these days - Particularly nurses and patient care

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I don't know of anyone who likes their work anymore except for the people who are homeless and don't have food. They would love any of our jobs.

No, I don't think anyone likes any kind of work these days . . . - Nina

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I strongly disagree . . . I love what I do. I have been a transcriptionist for 15 years, now I am full-time QA with transcribing/editing on the side as an IC. I work at home, great money, have my own house, pay all my bills on my own, pretty much have and do what I want.

I love mine too! - Hayseed

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I'm a full-time MT here at home and it's the bomb. My only problem is when I get burnout and my production suffers, but I think that's the case with any job...hourly or production.

However, I always wanted to be a farmer and that is my real passion (always thought I'd be running my own greenhouse/garden center/florist biz by now, but, yeah, helps to have a financial backer to pull something like that off and I'm not willing to put my house up for collateral ;-)

So, I am the type of person who is happy playing in poop, working in all weather conditions, and getting dirty for pretty much minimum wage. I even worked for free at a horse barn for over a year (while still holding a full-time paying job) just for the learning experience..."internship" is the fancy pants word for it.

You get out of life what you put into it. This job is tit (pardon the expression, but it is). I sit on my buttocks, in a climate-controlled environment, and transcribe sometimes wicked neato stuff. Sometimes I want to scream and pull my hair out at the bad dictators, but fortunately they are few and far between.

Also, I've blown out my knee twice now and if it happened in my other career of choice (farmin'), I'd be in deep doo-doo with not being able to maneuver around to make a paycheck.

I am very thankful for this line of work I sort of stumbled into. :-)

I think I love you - sm

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You sound just like me. If only I won the lottery or my husband landed a killer job, we would move out on the farm and raise organic crops and cows and such for a living. *sigh*
Too bad life doesn't always go along with your dreams huh? I guess I could always take up another MT job for 5 or 10 years....

Hayseed. Where are you working these days? - Remember you from the old days LOL

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Haven't seen your name around a while. You used to work for DeVenture, right? Where did you end up? You left there before the big Transcend merger, right? Glad to hear your still happy doing what your doing.

yeah, but they are not MTs. - no message

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I do. I may only be making $700 a week, but I am sure happy. - Me

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I might not be getting rich, but I average $700 a week and that is enough for me. Never without any work and have a great schedule.

Me, too! I love this job! - It is so me!

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I work for an online company that knows the true meaning of IC and I also still do tapes but I love getting out once in a while. I make my own hours, I make dinner and I never miss an event for my children since I can plan around just about anything!

Life is good! No, I'm not rich either, but my husband and I love the fact that we can multitask and make the best of what we have.

I don't know if I would call it love - - - sm - NYMT

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but I can't imagine doing anything else! My only drawbacks are no paid time off, no benefits, but the pay is good, especially for an MT, and I have nobody, NOBODY telling me when to work other than myself. I love medical language, I love the facility I feel when I'm typing well. I guess if I won the lottery or something I probably wouldn't do it full time, but I'd probably keep at it some because I would miss it if I didn't.

Can't say love but grateful right now... - cindyoh

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..overworked with mandatory OT, actually, but due for a week off shortly and can't wait. Couldn't sell house so obviously need to stay right where I am but don't have the confidence or trust I used to have even though I've transcribed for over 30 years. Having to change companies because of a paycut a year ago was a wake-up call about the realities of our economy, and I'm just hoping to hang on to what I have till retirement. Wonder if I'll truly ever feel "safe" again.

That's a good point. Whether you are a business owner, employee or IC - Things are rough out there

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I don't know many people who are doing well at any level these days and I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel yet either.

All the business owners I know, MT and otherwise, are hurting. Many, but not all MTs are hurting. Some are doing well, but wondering how long it will last since nobody else is doing well. I think we live in interesting times.

How would you like to be a Stock Broker on days like today? - Probably having nightmares

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I don't know how they take the pressure.

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