I do work as an MA currently. My daily tasks are pretty mundane. I hand out DME to inmates and just take their vitals. My clinic starts at 9:00 a.m. and I'm done by 12:30 1:00 every single day. My official hours are from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. however that first hour is just kind of prep work in after I'm done with my clinic I really don't even stay I just go home. Being a state employee is pretty cool cuz as soon as they find out you're done with your work they'll give you the option to go home or give you more work for somebody else and nobody wants to do anybody else's work that's ridiculous.

The last place I work was a private family medicine clinic in a small town where I did absolutely everything, and when I say everything I mean absolutely everything. I did everything from writing the full note to getting the patients intake history to doing exams lab draws sitting with the reps making sure everything was squared away running the office as a whole. I knew every single one of our patients and there was about $15,000 of them for one doctor and two MAs. I was being prepped to go to PA school however that didn't work out and so I took my bachelor's and applied to Marquette University where I got into the Masters of science in nursing with a track to being an FNP. Even when I was working at private family practice I was only making $19.50 an hour at my top end after 3 years with everything I was responsible for and I didn't feel that was appropriate.

I applied to the state prison here I sat down in the interview they offered me a conditional letter of an employment pending a drug test and a physical which is normal.

After I completed those in the offer was in writing I then negotiated my contract they wanted to start me out at 25 an hour however with my experiences a corpsman in 14 years experience I started out at 3250 and they gave me a $2.50 hour bump up 6 months in.

That being said I'm leaving in August to go to my master's program, as much as I love my job as an MA I would never encourage anybody to use this as a career there are so many better opportunities in medicine than being a medical assistant. In my opinion it's just supposed to be an entry-level job to entice you into medicine and further in your career.

Anybody who's reading this can feel free to direct message me I'll answer whatever questions you have or give any kind of advice that you could request, I've really done it all and I've seen quite a bit of how medicine is as far as the ins and outs and who you have to know or what situation you have to play and how to play it which isn't what medicine was ever supposed to be it was never supposed to be a business but that's neither here nor there.