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Intersting fact - sm

Posted: Dec 31, 2013

At the local VAMC food service workers and housekeeping aides start out at $15.50 an hour - as a 30-year MT I make $8.50 an hour.

newbies need to run - notsofunny

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yes and don't know why they are still advertising everywhere you can make big money being a MT?

Where I live, administrative assistants make between $10-$12/hourâ�¦ - StickingWithMT

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Some clerical jobs are just above $9/hour, but the majority seem to be between $10-$12/hour. Hardly anyone seems to be above that unless they have a degree and in a field that's in demand (computer science, speech pathologist, etc.). Not sure why clerical wages have been so flat as I made this same amount over 12 years ago. In looking at the ads, the companies hiring also commonly desire excellent MS Office skills, proficiency with Quickbooks, experience with multi-line phones, some website maintenance skills, and an "outgoing personality." Some want an assistant who speaks Spanish. Some want only those who've had recent and progressively more challenging administrative assistant experience over the last three years. All this for starting pay of $10/hour. The jobs that offer more, also frequently offer only 20 hours per week.

and dont forget young and pretty for clerical jobs - sm

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I love it when the ads say something to the effect that you have to be the face of the company or something like that knowing very well what they mean

I am a current food service worker making $13.50 - plus bennies

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but since it is for the school system, it is paid based on a 185-day work year. Divide that by 12 months of pay and it is only just over $17k a year, or less than $1500/month. I love the $15/month complete health insurance, best in the state, though.

But the thing that people doing MT for 30 years don't realize is that it is physically the most exhausting thing I've ever done. My body hurts each and every day. In my 7-hour shift, I get to sit each day maybe for 15-20 minutes while I eat lunch, sometimes less than that. The time I spend standing up is like being on a treadmill with varying settings - sometimes I go faster, sometimes slower, sometimes bending over, sometimes rotating from left to right, sometimes pushing a trash cart out with 300 pounds of garbage out to the dumpster.

And with those earnings, I make $200 too much to qualify for food stamps.

But I am employed. I can't be replaced by VR or offshored to India. I have opportunity to earn bonuses by having food safety certification. I don't have to pay for my meals and I'm on the clock while I eat lunch. I have all sorts of benefits. Best of all, I'm home by 2:45 in the afternoon - where I usually have to take an hour to heal my body enough to get up and take care of the house and do my MT job for 1-2 hours every day and all weekends to pay the bills.

Sometimes we think about what other people make and the reality is, things are tough all over. This is what I'm doing as I approach retirement age with over 20 years under my belt as a transcriptionist.

That's why I haven't done it I don't think I can handle the physicality - nm

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nm

Is that with or without the 25-30% extra - that VAMC benefits are worth?

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And, once you have one of those jobs, you can move into a better one. They usually have to hire from within first.

Employer matching into savings account, great healthcare, life insurance, lots of free training, upward mobility programs, possible payment for degree programs, telework opportunities, flexible schedules, unionization, a formal policy of respect for every employee, support for suggestions, improvement, and innovation, a chance to work with a technologically advanced, world-class electronic patient care system, and, of course, the great honor of serving our nation's heroes.

Strongly recommended. What VAMC is it?

All VAMC are the same I think, look in USAjobs.com - sm

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that is completely without the added benefits, like 6 holidays a year, and the thing about respect, it's wonderful and when you do something they appreciate you! It's such a completely different atmosphere it's unbelievable.

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