Is anyone on here a sonogram/ x-ray technician?

I want to make a career change and I am looking into doing sonograms or being an x-ray technician. I would like to speak to someone to get a little info on the jobs.

Thanks so much! FM me if you like

My FH is a Sonographer or Ultrasound Technician (same thing). He LOVES it and it's much more than telling people what sex they're baby is . . . he doesn't even do that. He finds cancer, he attends in surgery so the surgeon can see where he's going, he scans veins and arteries to find clots, obstructions, etc. He diagnoses anomalies intra-uterine, to determine if there is Down's Syndrome or other problems (never knew they could do that, but they do!)

It's very exciting, and challenging, and he absolutely loves it. I've been to the hospital a bunch of times, and he gets to do more exciting stuff and work more closely with doctors than the x-ray techs do.

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Posted by KK Holiday

I want to make a career change and I am looking into doing sonograms or being an x-ray technician. I would like to speak to someone to get a little info on the jobs.

Thanks so much! FM me if you like

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OMG- are you my lost twin?!?!? cause i just got laid off and want to do the EXACT same thing- i went to brandford school in Garden City to check it out for ultrasound- its seems amazing!!!
but i live in suffolk county so i really want a school closer- i havent found any yet-
do you know of any schools out in suffolk offering either program?
there is a program at nassau community college for x ray tech- again alittle too far for me...

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Posted by cynandkeith

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Posted by KK Holiday

I want to make a career change and I am looking into doing sonograms or being an x-ray technician. I would like to speak to someone to get a little info on the jobs.

Thanks so much! FM me if you like

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OMG- are you my lost twin?!?!? cause i just got laid off and want to do the EXACT same thing- i went to brandford school in Garden City to check it out for ultrasound- its seems amazing!!!
but i live in suffolk county so i really want a school closer- i havent found any yet-
do you know of any schools out in suffolk offering either program?
there is a program at nassau community college for x ray tech- again alittle too far for me...

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can we all please be new best friends? i got laid off in october and have seriously been thinking about becoming a sonographer too! it would be great if we could all share our research with each other

Yes we are all new BFF's now!
so the only 2 programs I found out are in Nassau-
the sonogram program at Brandford is about 2 years long- and you have the option of either night school or day school- then there's an internship in a hospital like the last couple months of schooling
and they said if you do well they most likely hire you after.....
thats all i know so far....

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Posted by cynandkeith

Yes we are all new BFF's now!
so the only 2 programs I found out are in Nassau-
the sonogram program at Brandford is about 2 years long- and you have the option of either night school or day school- then there's an internship in a hospital like the last couple months of schooling
and they said if you do well they most likely hire you after.....
thats all i know so far....

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do you is this Stanford Brown?? I just met with someone from there and she said tuition is $33K!!!

I can't afford that!

My mom did X-Ray for the last 30 years... i wouldn't recommend X-RAy, rather do something more advanced and less likely to give you harmful radiation, such as sonogram or ultrasound.