Medical Secretary

Dear bloggers, I introduce myself as Laura. Two days ago, I had my 23rd anniversary and I am a medical secretary. It has now been 2 years since I work in this department, in the Michigan Medical Centre. The reason why I am a medical secretary is real simple. I always wanted to work in health and help others, however I did not have the grades for it, which then leads to this job. In addition, my parents did not have a lot of money, which would have certainly be expensive for them for medical school. As one of those secretaries, we might not be paid much, $14.93 per hour, yet I am pleased with what I am doing, and wouldn't want to do anything else then being a medical secretary.

Like I said before, I was not exceptionally good at school, so I decided to become a medical secretary. After high school, I did some training to do this job and learn it. It took me 3 years instead of 2 years because in the middle of one program, I took a sabbatical break for personal reasons, which did me good.

Presently, I work full-time and I am really happy about it. I need to pay my apartment, food, clothes, etc. Anyways, I'm also happy because I only work on business hours and that way, I have my nights free. Though, yesterday, it was an exception. One of my colleges called sick so I had to take his place. I thought everything would go crazy, though it did not. There was a time where there was a rush and we were only 2 to answer a lot of sick or injured people. Individuals complained now and then, babies cried and people coughed. It might seem awful, but to me it was a normal work day. Dealing with mail, taking care of reports and phone calls, making appointments and normal stuff a medical secretary does. Everything went well, except for twice, when a patient tried to shift in front of the line and when another one called, trying to change his appointment early, when there was no more room. However, this is pretty normal. It occurs currently, more often then one would think.

To conclude this blog of the day, I'd like to tell those who are willing to become medical secretaries or work in health, that it is really important to be people smart, since you will be working with others and interacting with them most of the time. Also, for few advice, it is important to develop excellent communication skills, socialism and sympathetic skills as well as you have to be organized.

Thank you for reading my first blog and I hope you enjoyed it. See you next time!

Newspaper Journalist

Greetings to everyone. My name is Noel and I have been working as a newspaper journalist for almost nine years of my 32 years of life. I have lived all my life in New York City and I presently work for the New York Times, which I get paid $20.18 per hour. As a newspaper journalist, people expect from me to write clear and understandable articles of present events such as news. Everyday, I write newspaper articles on life events that occurred the day before. This sometimes creates and causes stress or pressure due to the fact of finishing an article in time before the deadline. However, the advantage of being a newspaper journalist is that I get the chance to work at home occasionally. 

I realized I wanted to be a newspaper journalist when I was 15 years old. It was my father who introduced me to this job, since himself, he was a writer. My dad would show me once in a while the basics of a newspaper journalist, which got me. Further in time, I got more and more fascinated by this job which eventually became a passion. 

Beforehand, after finishing high school, I went four years in an accrediting college of council and education in journalism & mass communications and earned my bachelor of arts. At school, I had to work really hard in order to obtain a job as a newspaper journalist since there was a lot of other students who wanted this job.   During my education, I would write several articles in my school's newspaper, blogs and in a small local newspaper. With time, I gained more and more experience and with my dad giving me advice, I finally got my first job in a small sports magazine. 

As a newspaper writer, you are responsible to inform yourself on what you will be talking about. Have accurate facts and data, which means you have to do research. Also, occasionally you'll have to interview people or go to conferences, which will then require note taking and recording. However, as a newspaper journalist, the main job you have to accomplish is to write stories, entries or new article.

Being a newspaper journalist might seem easy to become, but on the contrary, it is quite hard. To be an excellent writer, you must be word and people smart, since you're job is to write articles and stories and since you have to work with others and sometimes do interviews. You also have to obtain different skills, such as being creative and having a great deal of inspiration, being an excellent writer, making your point clear and not turn around in circles, as well as being open-minded when people criticize your writing. But last but not least, you have to have confidence in you and in your writing, or it will show in it which will affect your writings. 

Veterinarian

Hello, my name is Tyler and I am 29 years old. I presently live in Canada in the province of  Ontario. It has been about six years now that I've been working as a veterinarian in the Vet Pet hospital of Ottawa. I really enjoy my job, yet it hasn't been easy to become a veterinarian. I've always wanted to  be one since the first time I went to a zoo. Love for animals and to save them made me realize I wanted to do this as a job. I have been working extremely hard to end up as a vet. It is determination that lead me to success.

It took me a long time to become what I wanted to be, but I finally made it. First of all, after high school and doing my undergraduate courses, I entered a veterinary medicine accredited college for four years. During these four years, I did not have time to have a high social life. I mostly spent my time studying in books. However, it payed off when I earned my DVM, which is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. Then, I passed a GRE, Graduate Record Examination, and aced it, which I was really proud of myself. Afterwards, I became a veterinarian's volunteer and slowly gained experience and my license to become a true vet.

Until then, as a veterinarian, I diagnose the health problems of animals, do occasional check-ups, treat animals, vaccinate them against diseases, and sometimes perform surgery or euthanize animals. Also, to be a good vet, you have to be body smart since you'll have to work with you hands and be vigilant. You need to be confident in yourself and be meticulous for when you'll have to do surgeries for example, to become an excellent veterinarian as well. One advice I'd give those who wants to become vets is to never give up, even you face obstacles, because at the end, your hard work will pay off and you'll be proud of yourself.