Should freebeard pursue radiation oncology therapy?

[Xist]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

[M]y sense is you'd be great as a radiation oncology therapist. Some of them make close to 6 figures. You leave work at work, which is nice.

If it is good for me, it is good for him, right?

So, it is 1856, and I am still waiting for my 09 mom to connect. I enquired and she replied "Five more minutes!"

Of course, that was over 30 minutes ago.

I wonder if my nephew remembers me telling him that "Five more minutes!" means 30 minutes--or him telling my sister and getting me in trouble.

That seems like a good example for reading between the lines, but would I get in trouble for sharing it?

I absolutely positively cannot multitask and I struggle just to take care of less important things when something important is due, although I have only taken care of less important things since progress report season opened up, and then I need to file my taxes.

My brain just gives me static when I think about trying to do paperwork when waiting for my clients to connect.

I am just supposed to stop writing paperwork as soon as a client connects?

It just feels wrong!

[Xist]

That was a whole lot of rambling. I can focus better in a second message, right?

Right?!

I don't feel that I can write paperwork while I wait, which means that waiting has wasted a great deal of time I could have spent writing notes and reports.

I decided to do just a little research, but that is as frustrating as anything else.

This seemed useless: Indeed.com: How To Become a Radiation Therapist (With Salary and FAQ)

It says that you need education, but doesn't link to sites that compare programs, or even give me terms to search.

I don't know how I found this, I was researching education! Indeed.com: 7 High-Paying Radiology Jobs (With Salaries and Duties)

I don't doubt their information, but someone please explain this list:

"7 highest-paying radiology jobs"
1. MRI technologist, National average salary: $61,370 per year
2. Radiologic technologist, National average salary: $65,144 per year
2. Cardiovascular technologist, National average salary: $77,740 per year
4. Sonographer, National average salary: $77,740 per year
5. Radiation therapist, National average salary: $92,554 per year
6. Nuclear medicine technologist, National average salary: $93,624 per year
7. Ultrasonographer, National average salary: $116,889 per year

Wow, an ultrasonographer?! That sounds vastly better than a regular and boring sonographer!
It pays better, too!

So, they accidentally put 2. twice, but if they list fields by increasing pay, why isn't it a count down?

MRI technologists specialize in magnetic resonance imaging testing.
Radiologic technologist isn't explained usefully.
Cardiovascular technologist work in a cardiac lab and also complete procedures, such as stent implants, defibrillators and cardiac pacemakers.
Sonographers do sonograms?

The mom connected at 1913.

[redpoint5]

Many service providers have a no-show policy where the client pays if they don't formally cancel before the appointment. I'd give a 5min grace period and then consider it a no-show and charge them a fee. If someone is receiving care, that needs to be their priority, not that of the provider.

[Xist]

The state paid half the hourly rate until a year or two ago, after which we receive frustration.

[redpoint5]

Taxpayers paid half the rate. People gotta have skin in the game, and that's the problem. Start costing them money, and they will be on time.

[Xist]

My brother-in-law keeps buying his kids cars, and they are now in their twenties.

Well, he didn't buy all of them.

He gave away my sister's car, but not to his brat, but to the underaged, live-in girlfriend.

One of the sons wrecked recently and my sister said "Well, time to buy him another car."

So, what should be standard procedure when you go to see a client, say "Hi [name]," and they start crying?

Specifically a client who has never in 4 years calmed down once he started throwing a tantrum?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Xist

So, what should be standard procedure when you go to see a client, say "Hi [name]," and they start crying?

a. keep trying
b. give up

If you get paid to keep trying, maybe keep trying.

You should do radiation therapy, because if the client doesn't do exactly as you say, they die.

[freebeard]

Today, 07:00 PM

That's about the time I started watching Mutiny In Outer Space (1965) A Hugo Grimalldi Production. Permalink #8 already?

[confused Gandalf meme]

I vote present.

[freebeard]

Wait a minute! It doesn't say pursue [an education and career in] that.

Are you calling me a malignant neoplasm?

[oil pan 4]

MRI techs work pretty much day shift only except in big cities.
I'm doing my old air force job for a defense contractor and make more than the plebs at the bottom of the list and I live some where that the mean household income is like $25,000 a year.