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Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

MammoTech08 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:49:38 GMT

I feel they are hiring students that have done their clinical training at their facilities. It is ridiculous. Especially in this job climate. I won't take a position that starts me at a new tech pay scale. I have been offered $8.00/hr. No lie. As a mammo tech. Minimum wage is what....$6.55/hr as of July, 2008. I am so ready to chuck it all.

Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

GeorgiaPeach01 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:27:45 GMT

I really don't understand this field right now.....Here you are a veteran of radiology with years of mammo experience and you can't find a job because they are hiring younger techs so they can pay them less yet here I am less than a year out of school and can't find a job because I have no experience. Who are these employers hiring?!?! Does anyone have a clue??

Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

MammoTech08 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:02:12 GMT

Here is an update on my employment situation. I have applied for 3 positions in my city since the last time I posted here in June. Not ONE reply. NOT ONE. I continue to travel, but it is getting old. My current assignment has been cut in half-from 13 weeks to 6. I go home in 2 weeks. I don't know what else to do.

Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

MammoTech08 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:50:30 GMT

Thanks for your replies. I moved here 2 years ago from the Northeast, so moving again is not an option. I am traveling right now, and while I enjoy it immensely, I would like to be employed in the city where I live. I just don't know why I can't get a job. Is it because of internal hiring? Or, as Lori said, are they hiring their students at a much lower rate of pay than I would (and should) require? I have been a tech for 30 years, 20 in Mammography. You would *think* employers would take that into consideration---I am already "trained" and could hit the floor running, so to speak. I do that now as a traveler anyway. It's just so frustrating!!

Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

Everett Lang — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:51:40 GMT

Hi,

Loni is right. The markets all saturated now in many modalities.

Are you able to move? This would greatly increase your chances of getting a job.

Everett

Re: Mammo Jobs in the South

Loni — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:34:47 GMT

The problem is that the field has become saturated with graduated students and they are being hired instead of the experience Tech. because they start out with a much lower salary. I see in my area that the student's cannot find jobs, go and volunteer in the raadiology department to get experience until they can find a job and they get end up getting hired without benefits and a much lower salary and the experience Tech. is let go after the graduate prove her or himself on the job.

Mammo Jobs in the South

MammoTech 08 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:40:12 GMT

Hi all. This is the first time posting to this forum, and I am beyond frustrated right now. I have lived here for almost 2 years, and have applied to every Mammo/Rad Tech positon available to me. There are 4 or 5 facilities near my home and not one has replied to my application. I am originallly from New England, and have 30 yrs experience in Radiography, 20 of which are in Mammo. Can anyone tell me why I am not hearing from rthese facilities? Is it a matter of not what you know, but who you know? Any input would be greatly apreciated, because I am at the end of ny rope right now.