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Your job really should not reduce you to tears - in the first hour

Posted: Jan 25, 2011

I am level 3. I have been typing report after report for the worst doctor on the planet (not English of course). I have lashed out at my daughter, sent her a text to school apologizing, and now am in tears. I only want to work and make a decent wage. This has become so stressful and impossible I am just sitting here crying. Please no flaming today -- I look all the time for something else, have applied, interviewed, etc. When you have done this job so long, it is about all you are qualified for, and there are no in-house openings in my area.

I won't give you the "self help lecture" - Im with you

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I, too, started the day off rough. Thank goodness I am half way through now. Just know that I cried with you all morning, if that helps any.

Sending HUGS to you and completely understand (sm) - happy camper

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I had the same thing happen to me last night (well kind of). I have been stressed from looking for and applying for a job constantly over the last three weeks. I have been yelling constantly at my little girl and the dog it seems. Last night I went to get her ready for bed and just went off about how messy her room was and that she hadn't picked up. I sat on her bed to read her a book and just burst into tears after the first sentence. I feel like a horrible mother lately. I'm stressed beyond belief and have been breaking down. While our situations are on completely opposite ends I do feel for you and do understand. I also feel the same way of not thinking I could possibly qualify for any other type of job. What other skills do I possibly have, cashier at the local grocery store? Haven't done that since my college days. Hang in there!!! Hoping your day goes better. Hugs and kisses to our daughters when they get home. : )

Your job really should not reduce you to tears - Greta

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Been there, done that, this AM myself. My current job refuses to let me switch from nights to days, so I've been very carefully looking for a new job with the days and hours I need - very specific. I had a phone interview this morning and the recruiter tells me they don't have Monday to Friday. I put it on my application!!! Why did they bother to set up the interview??? Over 20 years doing this work and no one else will touch me with a real job, ie receptionist, etc. I feel like I've wasted my life typing and now it's too late to start over. FML.

Totally understand - FormerMT

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I was in the same situation. I called my CCM one day and told her there is a limit to how many days I was getting up to type garbage dictation, be threatened by MQ, and end up in tears. Fortunately (or not) my physical conditions got bad enough to qualify for disability. I went seven months with no income at all, and now I'm living on Social Security counting each and every dime. I can barely scrape by month to month, but it's still better than the stress I was under trying so hard to work. You are not alone. So many of us have walked in your shoes. You are in my thoughts. I am sure your daughter will love you for apologizing.

So far 3 hours into shift, I am 250 lines BEHIND - my minimum required.

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And I am not supposed to feel like a failure? It has got to be the accounts. I can type as well and fast as anybody else.

Reduced to tears - Nature

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I an so sorry. It is true that many of us have been there, are there, and will continue to be there day after day. I had to go into early semiretirement (4 years early), and because of this, I only get half of what I could have gotten if I had held on until age 66. I type 24 hours a week now. The stress is so much less now. Yes, I do still get horrible dictators, but it helps knowing that I don't have to type 8 hours a day. I start my day off asking God to "Bless my ears that I can hear correctly; bless my hands that they may be quick upon the keyboard, bless my body that I can sit here for the duration of my hours, bless my mind that I may think clearly and understand the dictators; help me not to make mistakes, and bless me that if I am audited, I will pass the audit." I could not get through the day without believing my prayers will be heard, and I have a "Higher Power" helping me through my day. I do not cry about my job as much any more. I use to cry myself to sleep every night. You know what, between my SS check and money from my job, I make it pretty well...not as much as before, but well worth it without the stress. As usual, I will be thinking and praying for all my fellow MTs. I do care!

Prayer in the above post... - TX MT

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I thought your prayer to start your day was a wonderful idea. I printed it off to keep here on my desk and will start off my day by saying it. Thank you so much for sharing!

I hear you.... - ncmt

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A little over a year ago I was lucky enough to find an in-house job. I was the same way - typing nothing but garbage, getting so frustrated I would be in tears. Hang in there and keep looking. Something will turn up for you.

Garbage jobs - waiting on an interview tommorrow

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If it makes you feel any better, in-house positions also have the garbage jobs. I get them every day. I think the only doctors left that aren't VR are garbage dictators.

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