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$10,000 down the drian ?? ( long )
Ok ladies I need some serious advice and I cant talk to family or my hubby about this yet.
I just finished a school program for Medical Lab Assisting ( people who take blood either in private labs or in hospitals ). The school was 7 months, included a 1 month internship and I was placed at a local trauma hospital.
Im going to be super honest....I HATED it, people spat at me, kicked at me, I saw things I can never unsee (trauma), had a baby die while I was in the NICU and the clincher was that I had a needle stick accident on my last day. ( I am fine and all test results on the patient were clear, he was a normal family man ). All month long Im trying super hard to be upbeat and get through the month all the while just praying that they dont want to hire me. There were more days where I cried in my car on lunch than Id like to admit .
Well last week I had an interview, went, and now Im waiting while they check my references. My hubby is soooo excited.
Heres where things get tougher. This is the ONLY place to get a job right now. The private labs ( where I think I would like it a lot ) are on a hiring freeze due to one major company buying the other major company. ( this all happened while we were in school ). I was a SAHM for 3 years and had to really push to go back to school to get a "career" and my hubby even said to me " you better not do this program and end up going back to administration "
What do I do ?!? Take the job at the hospital and suck it up ? or tell my hubby the truth and face his disappointment in me ??
Re: $10,000 down the drian ?? ( long )
I agree with above.
You don't want to have a gap in your resume for the time that it might take for a better offer to come up. Maybe the stress of being an intern skewed your view on the place a little bit, or maybe it really was awful but there is a better area in the hospital to be placed (not sure how big it is). From my own experience - I have worked the past two years working for much less than I could be making elsewhere, and driving 100 miles a day to a job that is less than ideal. But now I'm starting a great job in a few months and they appreciate the experience that I gained. Be patient, and good luck!
I've been a medical technologist and I will tell you from experience: NO special course is needed to learn how to be a phlebotomist.
All of this is about MONEY.
TEN GRAND to learn how to stick??? really???? We learned this on the job back in the day, during our college internship program!
You got ripped off. This is NOT worth ten grand at all.
These schools sucker the hell out of a body and promise them the moon and when the school is done, there's no jobs to be had.
Moral to the story:
If you are interested in a career change to a field like allied health, don't commit to anything until you volunteer in a hospital, preferably a teaching hospital.
See what really is involved and what goes on: the good, the bad and the ugly. You'll see if this career is for you.
Private labs are factories. They turn out bloodwork and the personnel are earning nothing. These are perhaps $15 an hour jobs and wow, for a med tech who goes to school for 4 years, the starting pay is horrible.
It's a high stress job and you get nothing monetary to show for it.
The Federal Trade Commission needs to have a good look at all of these proprietary schools. Sh!t --- you were in school for several months, not getting an AA degree at a local community college --- even that works out cheaper for 2 years of tuition!!! It's nearly half of what you paid!!!
AT $130 a credit, that works out to about $6500 for tuition for all 4 semesters.
BTW, "normal family man"???
This is why we still have rumors and fallacies about AIDS and HIV, 35 years after both made their appearance!!!
You do not know what one's sexual whys and wherefores may be. Everyone is a risk for carrying HIV and AIDS until "otherwise proven."
A needle stick puts you at risk for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. Lots of normal family men can carry each!
I have to agree. $10,000 is a lot of money to waste. You should do your best to earn at least some of that back until you can get the job you wanted.