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Actually,medical assisting is a stepping stone to nursing since so many cannot find a job as an MA and end up going to nursing school. They kick themselves for taking out loans to do something that they never got the chance to do. They were fed all this baloney in the afternoon commercials,in ads in the papers, by the admission recruiters,at orientations,and by the instructors-most who have no teaching experience and certainly no certificate to teach-about how "Medical assisting is the fastest growing field!" and told repeatedly that lie about MAs phasing out LPNs. They were handed out paper after paper from the US Dept. of Labor showing MA's income and it's never low. Even the very intelligent ones can fall for it. Then they graduate and are offered jobs (if they are at all) that pay less than $10 an hour and they think they can do better cause they were told they would and they turn it down,only to regret it months later,when nothing else turns up.

If you look on the MA forums of Indeed.com,you will get a pretty good idea of what it can be like after graduation. It can be incredibly hard to find a job if you do not get hired in to where you did your externship at. All of these offices are insisting on experience. Choose your externship site wisely.