Aha !! Retired and painting gourds as a hobby? Envy you. nm
Posted By: Sherry on 2009-06-24
In Reply to: Plus - gourdpainter
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Gourd Painting
You lucky soul! I'm married to a bona fide (sp?) city boy (Chicago). Fortunately he's a quick study but we've had some times during his learning curve.
I would love to share the gourd thing with you. As I said, I stumbled on it quite by accident. I'm actually taking art lessons so I'm really more interested in growing the little suckers (or big suckers as the case may be). The craze hasn't even caught on yet in the Mid West so I bet you've got a head start on the East Coast if you want it. Feel free to email me. Just put something in the subject line that will get my attention. I'm thinking of changing my address because I still get so much spam in spite of everything I can do. I'll be posting gourd information on my website at some point in time but I want to get my ducks in a row first.
I'm a midwest MT too (Kansas) ... but my gourd painting skills are definitely lacking too. :( n
to green with envy
MDI is a terrific place to work. They have their priories right and are honest. Unfortunately, they are not accepting applications right now from what I was told by one of my colleagues, but, of course, that could change. Don't give up!
I envy you. 5 years ago at my company I would have said the same thing
Now they are using such unfriendly software, can't fix any of the problems, it seems, and I'm seriously thinking of moving on. The owner hires her friends, and I really don't think anyone is qualified. JMO, of course.
I envy you soooooooo much - good luck!
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MT is a job, not a hobby...
Thank you SM that's also how I feel. Contrary to what some people may thing from my first post, I work every morning, take the afternoon off and then work late at night into the early hours of the morning when my children are sleeping and the house is quiet. I even work Saturday and Sunday nights if I have the work on my system so I'm anything but undependable and lazy. I like not having to work 9-5. The company I work for is very flexible. I guess I'm lucky
This is no hobby for me.
I certainly do not bow down to the nationals. I certainly DO NOT expect top wage from them either. If you think that you are worth more than what the nationals pay, then go out and get your own accounts. You will never run out of work and you can charge what the nationals charge. Someone made the comment that single Moms are trying to make a living at this and cannot take a break because their electric might get shut off. I commented that it is not just transcription. If you do not like the minimum wage type salaries that nationals pay then do not work for a national. If you ONLY have five years of experience then that simply is not enough to give you what you need. Go work on-site hourly with benefits and stop wanting everything handed to you from the internet. Nothing in life is free. You have to work to get it. If you are skilled, you will make some money. As long as people accept the wages that they are handed from nationals there will be no raises. So many times you hear all of the excuses as to why line counts cannot be met. Then why should a national pay you top dollar so you can have excuses as to why you are NOT getting the work done. If you worked for yourself and NOT a national you would have to get the work done no matter what or NO PAY. Call it what you want but until people in this profession realize that the accounts you do for a national is not your account and that it belongs to them, you will feel cheated. Get your own accounts and work hard after your five years of book work or whatever you are talking about. I have a family member that went to school for this and it took her a while. She almost gave up plenty of times. I encouraged her to continue. She is now working on-site and making a nice hourly rate with benefits. But it is not her account it belongs to the hospital she works for. Hello?????? Am I reaching anyone at all? 
Dont' let the envy rear its ugly head of yours.
Toughest hobby I ever had.
NM
MT is work not hobby
Maybe the wording on your OP was off. Are you saying you want to say, for example, I will work Wednesdays and Fridays noon til five. If that is the case and you stick with that, yes, I see what you mean. But it sounded like you said Wednesday, if it suited you, you would log on and work and if it didn't suit you, you just wouldn't. Just random logging on and working. That would not work for an MTSO, which I am sure you understand.
Do you work as a hobby? nm
nm
MT is a job, not a hobby that you just do when and how much you want. How do you expect an MTSO
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I sure wish I could go paint gourds.
Or just about anything else. Too poor to retire and can't think of another field to get into. But best wishes to all of y'all who DO get to leave MT and move on to something else!
Painter of Gourds...
why do you still feel compelled to paruse this board? If was retiring and no longer wanted to be an MT, I think I'd find the gourd painter message board and be very happy.
Why are you finding yourself still downing MT. Not all of us feel we'll have to buy a job. We don't all have bad luck and not all of us are down on the MT business. A lot of us are doing rather well and love this job...
Good luck with your retirement, but something tells me you'll be back after Thanksgiving... 
And if you do paint gourds...
how do you do this and where do you sell them? I love to paint little things like pumpkins and such for Halloween, but have never seen much of a call for it other than that time of year. Would love to make money doing that all year round!
Hey Retired WMX
Is that really you? We miss you so much, our ShortHand guru. I sent you an email.
No. I am retired. NM
Goldbird
Do I paint gourds for a living s/m
I do and love every minute of it.
Do you really paint gourds? Just wondering.
I know it is off topic but cool, I wish I was an artist. I might get into making jewelry and try to sell that. I love artsy stuff.
Oh, by the way, I got tired too of not being paid to sit and stare at a screen and I did find something waaaay better. Still work at home, but for a local hospital, very small, no VR at all, they don't like it. Better benefits, better pay, better perks, better situation all the way around.
So, anyone out there miserable, yes, look. You would be surprised of what you can find. There is life beyond the nationals.
Do what I did and just send or email resumes out to every single thing you see. The final choice is up to you, just listen to what each has to offer and if no good, go onto the next one. Send to local places you would not even think twice about. Local hospitals, small local transcription companies, even insurance companies who don't outsource hire transcriptionists. Just try anything and everything.
Seek and ye shall find. Well, I did anyway. 
Do you have a website for your gourds, gourdpainter?
though gourds and stewed tomatoes go well together...n/m
nm
My husband is a retired
truck driver. The truck driving industry seems to have gone the way of the MT business. I wish you well though. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old and really don't have to work anymore if I don't want to. Gonna go paint my gourds!!
Gourdpainter going to paint gourds and do other things s/m
I would like to thank everyone who has responded to my posts in a nice way. My presence here seems to stir much dissension which is not and never has been my intent. I post on a number of forums that are of interest to me and never in all my days have I seen such HATEFUL, SPITEFUL people as some who post here.
To the friends I have met here, please stay in touch via email.
I wish all of you (even the hateful posters) the best.
Happy! thought you retired. nm
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Retired or retrained, probably. I don't think they care sm
what anything looks like or where it is typed, as long as it is CHEAP.
I'll be retired or dead by that time. Let the
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I directed comments to never worked on VR and those retired
I don’t think, therefore, this was meant for you, directing my comments elsewhere. Sorry your platform is bad and if you read my other postings you will see I don’t assume, tell others their's probably just not as good a system. I definitely am not an assumer.
Seriously, gourdpainter, I have been in the same boat as these people, you are retired, remember?
When I had to work and make a living I took most things that were thrown my way, because I had to have a job. If my boss told me I had time off and then changed their minds and I did not have in writing, then that is what I went along with. I hardly think now since you are retired you have the ability to tell others about what they should do. I have retirees tell me they think I should retire but now I am saying to you, let these people decide on their own what they want to do and it is different when you can afford to sit back and say that. You get retirement, they don’t!
My hubs retired as a fire captain. Great benefits, thank God! nm
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I know of many Teamster union workers who retired at an early age, i.e. 57 yo and have a HUGE
retirement check for the rest of their life. It is a great organization. There may be strikes, but usually get it resolved in a reasonable amount of time and with MUCH better PAY and BENEFITS.
Only from my experience with union workers.
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