Something to Smile About (Again)

In my first year out of a private college name America Career College, I made $84,000 to start in a small hospital with a work flow of anywhere from 1-10 patients per day doing everything but my first passion...Echocardiography.  Yes, right out of graduation.  It's all about selling yourself and not taking the first thing they offer.  I was offered a job in Echo right out of college in 2007 but they where only offering $14 an hour!  Can you believe that?  I was only able to talk them up to $17 an hour.  The owner said that there is a high amount of graduates out there and someone who is desperate enough will take the job for $14 an hour.  I told him, thank you but not thanks.  I was offered another job at $42 an hour as a General Sonographer that same day in San Jose, CA.

You know even though we cannot legally diagnose, we are.  And you should be getting paid great and far beyond any other medical imaging modality technologist out there.  Rad, CT, and MRI Techs do not have the same responsibilities that we Sonographers have.  Don't sell yourselves short.