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Maybe I'll start a blog

Posted: Dec 6, 2013

I'm thinking of starting a blog to chronicle my descent into homelessness and madness or my miraculous recovery from this poverty-stricken existence that I've been living for the past seven years an MT. I'm really not sure which way it will turn out, but I truly enjoy typing and writing when I have control over what words show up on the screen without any kind of QA involved in the process. Would anyone read my blog?

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i would - nm

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Thank you. nm - Alice

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Oh my, - Alice

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Oops. I failed to re-read before submitting. That first sentence should end with "as an MT." I can't remember what the QA deduction is for leaving out a word.

LOL! Who cares about spelling in blogs? Will - you call your blog ....

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Go Ask Alice? :-)

It all depends - sm

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Honestly I do not read blogs that are depressing talking about what a rough life someone had. For me its too depressing. It's like my MIL. She keeps telling everyone she's going to write a story about all her troubles, how everything was done to her, what a horrible husband her ex was, how she had it so rough and is the victim in every circumstance. Honestly if it's too depression I won't read it.

If however you post your experience and offer solutions to others going through the same thing I would read it. But if all it's going to be is a victim mode blog I won't.

Or, you could ... - sm

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Or, you could spend that time applying for a better job, then studying for a still better job.

I wouldn't read it, - because...

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I have lived it myself, and honestly there is nothing interesting or amusing about it. I feel about 99.9% of blogs people write for their own enjoyment/therapy. Not long ago here on the Stars there were a few folks who wrote very funny posts (remember MModal Livestock?), but they seemed to have all vanished.

Exactly - blogs are just virtual vanity press - Ayn

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I wouldn't read it simply because I don't read blogs of any kind. I have absolutely no interest in them no matter what the subject.

Some people spend their days doing nothing but reading other people's blogs and writing their own, though, so to each their own.

She probably wouldn't want either of you to - read it, either. Talk about vanity.

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The funny ones mostly disappeared because - they got banned. Uncensored blog would be good!

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Been 7 years for me, too. I'd read it. - MTBankAccount

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other things - Valium

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I would read it only if you could catalog your competencies and start exploring your opportunities.

Immediately after I got laid off I considered these: phlebotomy, medical coding, pharmacy tech, radiology tech, court reporting. I looked into ROP (local training) and what continuing ed was offered at the comm. college. I got into phlebotomy and pharm. Phleb was a disaster. It was sponsored by Boston Reed College, and I wasted $3K. I hated the class -- and I never "hate" classes, but I felt completely trapped. I was competent but could not pass the clinical. I often could not hear the instructor (she mumbled) and the clinical sessions were a free for all. All the cliques got into action and used up each other's arms. After this disaster, I found there was a local phleb school that would do the same program for $2K. I'm still plugging along at the pharm and plan to take the licensing test in 2014.

Medical coding and court reporting sound like they are ripe for Indian tech takeovers. I was told that captioning is lucrative, but still requires lots of time to learn the machine.

Here, the rad tech programs have a 3-year wait. Loma Linda offers a program for $40,000, but I don't want that debt. Ultrasound is also a possibility.

There is life after transcription.

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