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By: lolabees

lolabees — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:54:13 +0000

I agree. Good for you for making that change– that’s a tough one. It’s good to see that you are reaping the rewards of that hard work. Actually, dental school debt was a qualifier for me. The day I paid it off for good, I felt really free to move on. It was like a clean break.

By: dinkerson

dinkerson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:52:32 +0000

For a lot of people debt is the hindrance. This was the case for my wife and me, until we finally woke up and changed our whole outlook on finances.
But until we were willing to overhaul our spending habits, we were allowing debt to rule over us and keep us from doing everything that we wanted to do. Damn. That sucked too.

Glad to say we took care of business and went debt free. Took four years of misery, but the payoff has been better than either of us could’ve imagined.

By: lolabees

lolabees — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:33:55 +0000

In reply to macky bennett. Aww, you're sweet! Can't wait to hear how it goes. I'm sure you'll do great things. You inspired me to call her in the first place!

By: macky bennett

macky bennett — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:18:34 +0000

Laura,
You really inspire me. I just called Shawn. It’s time to figure out my next chapter.
Macky

By: lolabees

lolabees — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:57:09 +0000

Haha! I love your description of working in the dental offices. Yeah, it seems most of the pedo prophys get done by the assistants.

It sounds like the program you did worked well! What I love about your story is that you have made all these changes at 50. It goes to show that it’s never too late. I know people that I used to work with who are SO unhappy, and their excuse to stay stuck and miserable is that they are “too old” at 50 years old. That’s BS. I know that’s probably driven by fear, so I understand that, but it’s so sad to see people suffer when they have a choice to change.

This is the other great thing about hygiene– you can always work or temp part-time to help pay off some of those loans. As you know, it’s worth the trade off.

By: Donna Guerrero

Donna Guerrero — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:38:11 +0000

Sounds like a program I went though called discovery- training . Com
It made me address issues in my life that I was still hanging on to and release me from there bondage so to speak . I went back after 25 years gone and got my hygiene license it was hard as hell but I did it. I had always felt like a failure because I never followed through .. Once I got it I was like yuck this sucks … I ‘m nothing more than a mouth maid subjected to gross stuff in people mouths , hateful assistants that think they know more than me but don’t want to suffer through school to get a hygiene liscence so they undermined me out of jealousy , dentist that don’t know the first thing about running a business and there either busy doing the assistant or there grumpy wife has them by the balls and is running there business into the ground . Now granted there where some good dentist and nice assistant and I was never a queen bee type hygienist .. I used to he a assistant a long time ago so I got it and always did my own stuff and some of there’s if I had time .. Many assistants where shock that I would get down and dirty with them and clean .. I always looked on it has we’re a team and we all want to go home at 5:00 lol.. I eventually did find my nitch with pedo .. Love me some pedo but those jobs are hard to find and now dentist want to replace us with assistants so save a all mighty dollar.. So after going through discovery training I realized I wanted to work more with people and the whole life not just there mouths.. I will graduate may 12 2012 with my BSW in social work and one year more for masters.. I love what I do and no it doesn’t pay as well but I go home happy and fulfilled .. I don’t need muh stuff at my age 50 and I love helping others in various parts of there life. I still kept my liscence in hygiene and I still temp .. I will have about 30 thousand in student loans when I graduate and I will probably die before there paid off but I am happy and that matters most of all.