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This close to quitting! - clb

Posted: Mar 17, 2014

If I didn't need the gol dang money so bad I'd quit right now! More work added on my plate after you cut my pay...twice! This is beyond what I can handle today. I'm only 45 minutes into my shift and I'm crying already. Let me back up, Saturday I was NJA (as usual) so I (stupidly) emailed my PTO requests in for the year, during my shift, and then I get an email about "productive time" and then had another account added to my pool. And given 30 minutes to learn 68 pages of account specs! I'm only on day 2 of this account and I already hate it. I've never worked at a job where I sleep like crap, grind my teeth at night (I have to wear a bite guard now) and have anxiety before work and get nervous when the phone rings or an email pops up because I'm always worried it's going to be work calling/emailing. I already failed one audit this year and didn't make line count twice already but yet I'm still here. I have more work, more off the clock hours, for a cut in pay. Really? They don't teach you this stuff in MT school. This is BS!

Dear Close to Quitting - sm

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I (and probably all of us on this board) empathize with you. I'm glad you're coming to this board and venting to us. Much better than quitting and much better than venting to the company. I know firsthand the hopelessness and desperation you're feeling. All of the above that you write, I've experienced. I would like you to consider a different line of work. That's what I've done. I now work only a few hours for an MTSO while working full time outside of the house in a completely different job, not even health care-related. There really is a world out there, away from MT work. I couldn't be happier! Don't let yourself feel beaten down like you're feeling today. You are worth MUCH more than your company can ever pay you! Cry today, then dry your tears and start thinking about what kind of work you'd like to do. We all know that our previously beloved MT careers are all but dried up now, or will be in the next year or 2. I think you should start soon thinking about something else you'd like to do. Don't wait to the last minute when everyone else is looking. You'd be surprised at all the things you'd be good at and things you'd enjoy. I'm talking from personal experience!

Thank you for your empathy...sm - clb

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Yes, I came here to vent. I'm not giving my job the satisfaction of knowing I can't handle it. I can't wait until I'm done with work tonight so I can have my Shamrock shake and a beer and watch the new season of DWTS! I'm currently working on getting out of MT also. Can't get an interview to save my life, but I was hanging out with a girl friend yesterday and she told me about taking the State exam and also checking Craigslist for jobs. There is nothing in my town that pays over $8/hr or else is nursing, welding, heavy lifting, factory, or driving a forklift; none of which I can do nor want to go back to school for yet another dying field, and can't get hired on for anyway. I am calling the temp agencies in my town this week to get some help and just keep applying to any job anywhere I can. I'm thinking anything in the medical field that's not MD or nurse is going down the toilet anyway. Somebody suggested coding to me and I think that is way worse than MT so that's not an option. But yes I am trying very hard to get out of MT and keep setting a goal for next month I will be out, next month I will be out, etc.

Thanks again for the pep talk. I love coming on here to vent because it's anonymous and I always know someone understands what I'm going through because any non-MT just doesn't get it.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you :-)

I second everything you said and then some. I only work - MT12

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part time now as an MT and can't wait until I can quit altogether. I've been at this for over 25 years and it keeps getting worse. Hang in there.

Thank you. nm - clb

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