Shortly after high school I began working at The Hayward …show more content…
So after I moved my roots back home my sister-in-law connected me to an opening at Bay Radiology. Again I was back at the front desk doing the clerical work I was oh so familiar with yet now I am doing it for a radiology office. Since being at Bay Radiology I have had the opportunity to talk to the technologists about their different fields of work. I have seen and used an x-ray machine before and observed a few ultrasounds but what fascinated me was seeing the MRI machine and how it functioned. I’ve been a test patient a few times and was a bit wary about laying on a table and being slid into the center of this ginormous machine. Before sliding in the tech asks all these questions about past surgeries and metal in the body, I was a bit confused and had no idea that the MRI machine was a magnet. After getting started the noises were so loud, it sounded like alien life forms were trying to communicate with me. I was mystified after coming out and seeing all the images. How could you see inside my body without any pain at all whatsoever? I began to be more involved and learned as much as possible in my reception roll as I could, I took interest in the back office and preparing the patients before getting an MRI. Working in the front is a great job, but it is a means to an end for me. I need something more challenging, something that catches my interest and will keep me on my toes every day. Magnetic Resonance Imaging is what I want to do, as I started to research going to school and talking with my coworkers The Gurnick Academy is what caught my