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Coming back to MT - clevername

Posted: May 15, 2013

ok, I have been offered a secretarial job but it is with a new company so I am iffy on whether the comany will make it. My question to everyone here if it doesn't make it I would probably go back to MT. How long do you guys think I could be away and still be able to find a job?

Edited to add that I currenlty have 6 years experience at MT.

COMING BACK - oaf

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ESCAPE WHILE YOU CAN AND DON'T LOOK BACK.

Six years doing what - Type of MT?

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Six years doing what type of MT? You can have 20 years doing one or two specialties, but that won't help you land a job. I would not depend on coming back into this business if that's the case.

If you have 6 years of acute care, you stand a better chance, but it's still a crap shoot.

If I was you (and I'm not), I would learn a totally new skill set other than MT.

plan B - can you do both? sm

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Maybe you could continue to do MT part time, just a few hours a week, to keep your skill set up. You would probably know in a few months if the new company looks like it'll make it, and you could decide then whether or not to drop MT altogether.

Good luck!

Clever, I can't speak from experience, but a lot of - people report having problems after

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being out of work for a shorter period than that. That's actually a nationwide problem for people in all lines of work, not just ours.

Ours is a little special in that we have a continuing influx into the industry of people willing to make significant sacrifices on top of what typically were already low incomes to be able to stay home. Until the industry is facing a shortage of workers, they'll blow off good people with supposedly red flags like leaving the field. Regardless of what other people report, you'd better assume you'd have problems.

Personally, I'd line up a credible liar to put on my resume as last employer. Just in case. And do my best to make sure I'd never have to come back. Good luck.

Did you know - Anonymous

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...That falsifying information on a job application will get you fired if your employer finds out? Getting someone else to lie for you? What a world we live in.

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