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Anything else to do from home? - MT

Posted: Nov 26, 2012

Has anyone been successful in finding a non-MT job that can be done from home with benefits? I'm at 14 years in MT, and just cannot do it anymore. My daughter was sick this weekend, but of course I can't afford to put her on my insurance with what they charge and what I'm making these days. This job has turned into a complete nightmare, really need to find something else to do.

it's hard - sm

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I have been looking for something to do myself, and have applied at amazon.com. They are a huge multimillion dollar company, legitimate work at home opportunites for data entry, blogging, and browsing the internet.

I have been in your situation before. I was an MT for 16 years and my hands could not take it anymore. I lost a worker's comp case as I could not prove the damage to my hands was caused by my job, even though my doctor stated it did. (The lawyers that work against the workers get paid 100 bucks an hour to keep us from winning our cases).

Anyway, I am also in school receiving a degree in counseling. I have received a certificate, have finished my associates and am starting on my BA next year.

Think about going back to school or working for amazon.com, I'm not sure about the benefits though. There are government programs galor out there to help people in your situation. Obamacare might even have gone into effect in some cases.

I'm sorry about your situation. For me, its really hard to leave home after being able to work at home for 45k per year during my fruitful years. I am fearful I will fall flat on my face when I get a job outside of the home, but I have absolutely no choice! I would have done MT'ing the rest of my life if my hands had not have given out.

Good luck to you, I probably didn't help out much, but just letting you know I know how tough this job is. I was depressed during my last couple years due to the pain and the changes made in the industry that made me poor. Take care.

Just wondering, why can you not - PR

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work outside the home, any particular reason? The huge majority of my work life has been just that, outside of the home working. The only reason I started working from home is the hospital I worked inhouse for sent us home to work for them and finally outsourced us to a company. I sometimes think the MTs who started with these companies feel like they cannot work away from home and sit around hoping, wishing that somehow the tide would turn back to a more profitable job situation and seems like just the opposite now. For people who have to work and make a living, I am really puzzled as to how long they feel they can hold on.

I Left My Comfot Zone - ...and took a job in an office

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I left working from home, after 14 years of doing MT from home. Enough already. However, some people have disabilities, don't drive, live out in the boonies, and other things.

I miss working from home. MT was my dream job, loved doing it, loved working from home, but it's gone horribly sour the last several years, so I'm kind of forced out.

Working from home - Fed up

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I started out over 25 years ago in MT working for hospitals in house. Thought it'd be nice to get away from these bitchy managers in the hospitals and work at home, but the managers at these MTSOs are still crazy bitches and find a way to make us all miserable. What makes these women so deplorable? We are all doing the best job we can, giving great loyal service, but there is no appreciation.

BTW, the male doctors of the cardiology group where I worked in house for years were just as nasty and hostile. Most of us quit. So, I'm not saying women are the only stinkers. :P

Did the original poster answer? Not sure - PR

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if 1 underneath mine answered or if the original poster answered. Just to think, if you had worked this career in the past, no one worked from home, just all inhouse, then again if you fell into the living out in the boondocks or having to be assisting someone who was not able to live on their own, then I guess no job period. I guess we came to a trade off in this profession, working at home and really enjoying that and not making enough to basically live on versus working inhouse and making a killing money wise but having to leave the comforts of home each day. I am very glad I worked then many, many hours and many jobs to build up the income for later years.

Original poster - MT

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I ran out of work for the day early yesterday... Again. Spent the rest of the day looking for work and didn't get a chance to see if anyone even replied to me.

I guess there really isn't a reason I "can't" work out of the home. My reasons for wanting to are many though. I have 2 grown children that I raised while working out of the home, was never able to go to any of their school functions, etc. I now have an 11 year old that has been a MT "brat," haven't missed anything with her school, gymnastics, church functions, and I really don't want to. My older kids remember that I wasn't there, it still bothers them.

Another reason, and probably the biggest as I think most employers would be pretty reasonable with the above, is that when I did work out of the home the women I worked with were horrible. It was just like being back in high school, and I dropped out of that so I didn't have to deal with them then! I remember them always having something to say about everything I wore, everything going on with my kids, me being a single parent, etc... I was in my late 20s when I started being a MT, so I try to convince myself that it will be different now in my 40s, but the anxiety about it kills me and stops me in my tracks every time I get an interview.

I know I should see a counselor about it... but who can afford to go to the doctor with the crapy insurance I am forced to accept for just me! I recently got married, he's really great... unfortunately not rich.

try the airlines - reservationist jobs

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American Airlines was offering recently a work from home position for a reservationist.

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