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Leaving MT for Walmart? - Anyone done this?

Posted: Dec 13, 2010

I have way too much time on my hands today so I thought I would ask this question. Has anyone left the MT profession and went to work at Walmart, a pharmacy, drug store, or any other store? Will they hire us since we have been an MT for 10+ years? What about factory jobs, you know the light duty assembly kind? Have any of you had any luck getting hired in anything other than as an MT without going back to school?

I've toyed with the Walmart I dea, but then - SM

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my mom worked for Walmart for over 20 years and in the last five years she worked for them, they froze her wages and refused to give her anymore raises, they "did away" with her job and decided to move her around the store, even telling her that she was on "cart" duty, having to go out the parking lot and bring in carts. My mother was 63 years old, is a small woman, and had had two foot surgeries and a back injury while in employed with Walmart. Basically, they wanted her to quit. They were doing this to all the old timers so they could hire new people at not even half the salary that the old timers were making. Finally, they phased out my mom's job again and she contacted dept of labor who said if they phase out a position and you don't like the new position your are given, you can refuse and Walmart can fire you, but has to give her severance pay. So my mom came out all right. She got three months salary and because she was 20 years with the company, she was 100% vested in profit sharing. So she got her profit sharing, 401K, and a nice severance package and is now retired.

My point is you will be hard to press to find any corporation out there that treats its employees fairly anymore. It's all about the almightly bottom line. Good luck!

without school for retraining you would be qualified for - cll

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a position as a medical secretary or surgery scheduler, etc. in a doctor's office. If you really want to get out the transcription end, looking into in office positions like that. I have a two year degree as a medical assistant and what I was trained for in two years of college, they take people off of the street and train them for these positions now. Having the medical terminology background, you are more qualified for those positions than most people. Good luck!

Listen to CLL. Some of those jobs are basically - anon

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literacy-not-needed, low-wage positions you've described. Even if your income has never been high as an MT, your knowledge and experience should qualify you for much better. Plus, you're in the health industry, which is expected to grow, grow, grow in demand for new workers.

working at Walmart - Laura

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I've been trying for months to get a job at Walmart (although I've heard they do not treat their employees nice), various drug stores...even Burger King..they told me with my background I'd only work there temporarily until I found something better.

Pedal - June Singer

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Could someone answer a question for me? I have a USB pedal, I am supposed to do a job and do some samples to see if I will be hired, but low and behold my pedal does not work with the files she sent me. This wouldn't be the first job I lost because of this. Can someone please help?

Program Switch can change voice files to file compatible with - your pedal. There is a free trial. nm

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Wal-Mart, really? - mt2

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With 10 years in the medical field, why not go to your local hospital. You would be qualified for a lot of positions not in MT, you would be paid better and have better benefits. Just because you leave MT doesn't mean you have to go to Wal-Mart or fast food. Even try a local doctor's office, mental health facility, look on your county or state job web site, dental office, or even try a bank.

Local hospital doesn't use MTs any longer... - what else is there

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Our local hospital all use EMR now so what other jobs would I be qualified to do...secretary jobs? I would love to know what jobs we can do in a hospital because I would love to go back to a hospital. I would even be willing to train or take a class or two but I cannot commit to going back to college without money coming in because grants do not pay for everything and somebody has to be home in the evenings with the kids to get homework done. I have no one to help with my kids. BUT I need to be working!!!

hospital jobs - mt

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Go to your local hospital web site and look at the jobs. There are registration clerks in just about every area of the hospital or unit clerks that you would be qualified for, assistant to department heads, etc. You will actually have to do the looking though. Some areas like pathology still have in-house MTs too.

Even with EMR, there are still jobs - cll

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?The office I work for doing MT is directly into their EMR. There are in office personel that need to scan documents and people to maintain the EMR. In a hospital, along with these positions, you have unit seretaries, intake, even the x-ray department you have people who maintain films, etc. You need to log onto the websites for your local hospitals and they usually have their employment opportunities listed. They will pay better and have much better benefits than retail or such a job. Even if it is something that you do not think you are qualified for, but are interested in, apply anyways and go for an interview if called. You might be surprised that you have more qualifications than you think or are giving yourself credit for. Of course, positions like RN, PA, CRNP and physicians you need degrees, but there are a lot of supporting areas that with your medical terminology knowledge you would fit into nicely. Good luck!

What's wrong with secretarial jobs? - Just Asking

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If you truly need to work, I would think that a secretarial job would be a blessing. What would be wrong with it? If MT is not working for you and you are making little or nothing, then surely a secretarial job would be better, wouldn't it?

Exactly what I was thinking. There are better options if you want to leave MT - or you could change MT jobs

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MTs are qualified for all sorts of medical positions at hospitals and clinics if you want to do something else. Another option is changing MT jobs. They aren't all bad, if, and that's a very big 'if', you have the skills required. Many MTs don't and prefer not to get them. That's okay too. It just limits your options.

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