I was talking to another MT today. First, I was letting her know I'd be leaving the company. Second, we came to the conclusion that in our lifetime, there would always be a need for MTs with our skills. That is a loaded consideration if you truly think about it.

Don't ever take a day off. Forget what I said about vacations

If you take a day off, one of your best MTs has a crisis and has to take one too. If you take a day off, you have to work double the following day to even come close to finishing and yet, not finishing the work you left behind for a day. If you take a day off, oy vey!

Oh hell, take the vacation anyway. We have all earned them!

I am leaving Phoenix in two days to go back to Virginia and the normal day to day routine of my life at home. I so enjoy coming out here and doing some lazy lady things and touristy things and basketball things and swimming things and just being "off" in general. I work on vacation, so there is some reality to it out here, but it's sure a pleasure to put my feet up at the end of the day and pick up some sewing and just blob out.

I highly recommend a vacation to anyone and everyone. Take one now!

So, the "other" halftime gig I was going to take has now decided to go 2 days instead of 5. Thank the stahs that my current bossly time is flexible. And a'workin' I do go.

So, I'm cruising the web, finding MT things that might interest me and decide to look on MySpace for other medical transcriptionists. They're out there, but far and few between unless I was looking incorrectly.

How cool it would be to get a good consolidation spot out here rather than the not-so-cohesive network of MTs that exists today.

I need to think on this

So, I get a half-time offer for a gig offline doing something I totally adore. I am torn. How can I do the halftime job and still keep my position where I am? I gave it a shot by doing substitute work with the offline job this summer and realized that I'm not 20 anymore and it's way more than I bargained for. I love both jobs, but had to tell the offline people that I couldn't keep up.

I've transcribed, I've managed, I've owned an MTSO. What else is there to do? I was thinking about this last night, knowing that our field is ever-changing. Along with this, I had a conversation with a friend who is retraining her Dragon so that she can save her wrists.