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Giving up on the Q - after 15 years

Posted: Jan 12, 2010

It is hard to take the leap of faith.

It is hard to not be an "MT" anymore after so long.

It is hard to think of myself as doing something else...

I always said I would go down with the ship and it was hard to admit that my life boat had arrived....maybe an offshore joke would work here.

Thanks to all the posters on the board who kept me from going insane everytime I was lied to, everytime I was performance managed, got my pay cuts, got lied to some more, and got promoted to MME. I don't know any of you, but you let me know I was not alone and I think it is really cool we got a break with this TAA thing...finally.

May God bless you my friend... - Dinosaur

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You have been here 15 years, but you are young, strong an intelligent. You will excel in what you chose to do. I hope to retire before the ship sinks. I have no offshore jokes,because, well, its just not funny, but I will leave you with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34iCcGw8N6Q&feature=related

Best of luck my friend.

I wish you the best - shipwrecked

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I know how hard change is, but your new life will be wonderful, no matter what path you choose. Somebody will appreciate you, and you probably won't know how to act!!

I'm stuck here with Dinosaur, wanting to retire, but not wanting to give up the little (very little) extra income the Q provides.

Be happy, m'dear!

Leaving MQ - anon for obvious reason

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Wish I could think of a joke for ya but I woke up after only 3 hours of sleep with an awful headache. Let me see....

How about a women's joke? I did a quick search and came up with this:

{{A group of girlfriends is on vacation when they see a 5-story hotel with a sign that reads, "For Women Only." Since they are without their boyfriends and husbands, they decide to go in. The bouncer, a very attractive guy, explains to them how it works. "We have 5 floors. Go up floor by floor, and once you find what you are looking for, you can stay there. Its easy to decide since each floor has a sign telling you whats inside." They start going up and on the first floor the sign reads, "All the men on this floor are short and plain." The friends laugh and without hesitation move on to the next floor. The sign on the second floor reads, "All the men here are short and handsome." Still, this isnt good enough, so the friends continue on up. They reach the third floor and the sign reads, "All the men here are tall and plain." They still want to do better, and so, knowing there nare still two floors left, they continue on up. On the fourth floor, the sign is perfect. "All the men here are tall and handsome." The women get all excited and are about to go in when they realize that there is still one floor left. Wondering what they would be missing, they head on up to the fifth floor. On the fifth floor they find a sign that reads, "There are no men here. This floor was built only to prove that there is no way to please a woman." }} Ha ha.

Here's another:

{{A man inserted an advertisement in the classifieds section with the heading "Wife Wanted." - The next day he received a hundred letters saying "You can have mine."}} The same can be said about husbands/boyfriends, right? LOL.

Anyway, I want to wish you the best of luck. I did MT for years, married a military man, was able to continue doing so in one state but when we moved to another, I could not find an MT opening to save my life. I ended up doing medical billing for 10 years and burned out on it. It's not that it's a bad job, it's just that I felt I had stopped learning and when that happens with me, I grow stale and get burned out (I have a bad case of ADHD). There are only so many times you can enter the same procedures and diagnosis codes over and over and over again into the computer. At that office, I also worked with 11 other female billers because it was a 20 office practice with 15 doctors and it was the worst cut throat environment I had ever been in (and I have worked with large groups of women before), with a bunch of women who loved to pass work off on to other people. Not to mention they kept opening more offices, taking on more doctors, doing new tests, taking on durable medical equipment, etc. etc. etc. Our work load kept increasing but they refused to expand the billing staff. It was so stressful. Anyway, I refused to ever pass on my work to anyone else, and I refused to say anything when they did it to me. I'm just a wimp. Eventually, I started walking in daily with chest pain and stomach burning. I had even gone to my doc at one point for an EKG because the chest pain was so bad but it was just a panic attack and I was started on medication accordingly. I've been a recovering alcoholic for a very long time and for the first time in so many years, I started thinking about how much easier that job would be to take if I could have a drink or two every couple hours. That's when I knew it was time to get the heck out of there. And I did. I am so glad to be back to doing MT, even though we have our share of hassles. No cut throat women. No chest pain. No stomach burning. The worst thing I have to deal with all day is the dogs wanting fed 1/2-1 hour before my shift ends and they're up on the furniture pawing at my arms. Believe me, I'll take that any day of the week.

I know you don't know any of us personally, but please feel free to come back to visit now and again to let us know how you're doing.

I assume you already have another job lined up but I'm not going to pry and ask what it is. I just want to wish you luck.

Take care of yourself!

What do I say to this? HALLELUJAH! - Good for you! Awesome!

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I say Praise the Lord. Move on to much better things. You can do so much better for yourself. You are going to do great!! You will probably say, WHY DIDN'T I LEAVE YEARS AGO!!!!

Now I have to tell myself that!

Welcome to the (Ex Evil Q Club) EEQC we call ourselves. - Bunion

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and God speed, and God bless. You will feel great.

Love,
BUN

TAMALE better name for us EX- MQ's - BUNION

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Transcriptionists after Medquist and loving employment!

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