 Hello everybody Andrea here. Let's talk about the pros and cons of temping at different offices as a dental professional, more specifically dental hygienists who have just graduated. So maybe you like the idea of temping because that's the only job you can get right now or you like the idea of it and this is where I'm going to talk about the pros. So basically the nice thing about temping is you can pick and choose your own hours. So let's say you don't want to work Fridays. Well whatever offices you tell them that you can temp for, well you can only do any day except for Friday. What if you want to be done every day at four o'clock? Well you can do that. As a temp you can do it because you're picking and choosing the hours you're available to work and let me tell you if an office is looking for a temp dental hygienist it's because they can't find one to work part-time or even full-time. Depending on where you're located around here it's almost impossible to find a dental hygienist. There's just not enough out there especially dental hygienists who are temping. It's still almost impossible because they're being taken by other offices and there aren't enough temps out there. So I tell new dental hygienists if you're just starting, if temping is something you want to do you can absolutely make more money because you can pick and choose what you want to make basically. Of course within reason just picking a number. If dental hygienists in your area are making $50 an hour I'm just picking a number here and you ask for $55 you absolutely can. If you're going to ask for $75 per hour nobody's going to hire you but you can ask for more and I'll tell you why because you're not hired as an employee you're not on their payroll so you have to save a certain amount for tax time off of every paycheck it's not automatically being done for you. Also their employees might have access to dental insurance they might have other insurances that you don't have access to being an employee so the office is paying for their insurance you know paying for these things where they don't do that with you so you can ask for more money and I'll say it again if an office is asking for a temp looking for a temp they're desperate so you can ask for more money I'm going to go over in another video how to do that and how to respond when they're giving you a hard time when they might be saying to you're asking for $55 an hour we would never pay that okay take it or leave it but I'll talk about that more in another video so those are basically the pros of temping you can pick and choose people are desperate you can ask for more money and you know what you're always going into something new but let me talk about the cons of temping especially being a new dental hygienist I feel being a new dental hygienist you're so unsure right you're so overwhelmed I remember when I was first a dental hygienist the idea of temping scares me because I would want to work for the same office to know how they did things how do they do their charts how do they how do they do the checks how do they book appointments you know I would want to do that I would want to know what I'm getting into but if that doesn't bother you then don't worry temping is fine so that's kind of a con there's always going to be something new but what if you're temping at the same three offices well then you get to know those offices and that's a good thing right some some other cons can be you are basically thrown into things so as a new dental hygienist make sure to ask questions as anybody would be needing to know the information anyway it doesn't matter if you're a new dental hygienist or you've been doing it for 10 years you're going to ask things like well where do I find the charts where do I sterilize who sterilizes do I sterilize the instruments after every patient or is there an assistant who does that how do I let the dentists know they're in for a check you know all of these things you're going to have to make sure to ask those questions if you're new you might not know what questions to ask yet if you've been doing it for 10 years you are very well prepared on what to ask because you know kind of how things run so that can be a con but there's a lot of pros there's a lot of cons it just kind of depends on what works for you definitely do a search though in my channel for other things I have a lot of different videos where I talk about temp dental hygienists things like what you need to prepare for what questions you should be asking how much of a percentage should you save come tax time so you guys definitely do a search I have lots of different videos so I do hope this helped with the pros and cons thumbs up you guys please click like if you do like this video that does help me in my channel thank you so much and good luck have fun and I'll see you guys in the next one