I have come to the conclusion
Posted By: Miss Willy on 2007-07-31
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that it doesn't really matter what people say about any particular company. To find out what they are like, you must work for them. Some companies may be better than others, but opinions vary. If a company has trouble with paying their employees, well that's one thing everyone should know. But, all transcriptionists have varying work experience, years worked and what type of work they can do. Some can't do ops. I have done acute care transcription for 28 years. How does that compare to a person who has a year or two or even ten years. I have watched the trends in transcription and quite frankly, it stinks. Companies don't want to pay holidays usually. Some won't let you take a day off without pay to go see a doctor while offering you health benefits. Some want you to have such and such equipment at your own expense, unlimited long distance at your own expense, DSL, cable, Word 2000, 3000, XL, and on and on and on. A while back someone asked about Webmedx. I answered that I had 99.9% ESL doctors. It was disputed. On the account I was doing, I had ONE English doctor - all the rest were ESL. I didn't exaggerate in any way. For me, that was the way it was. For someone else, it could be completely different, but I sure wouldn't try to work for them again. Amphion has ExText. If you like to fill in democratics and not actually make money, that is the place for you. Transcript-USA has a horrible system, Cquence. Heaven help the person who works for them. You won't be there long. So when I ask about a company, I don't want to look in the archives. Personally, a person should state how much experience they have if they remark on any company. Everyone is different. A new person can tolerate more with a bad company because they don't know any better.
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I have come to the conclusion that
No matter what company you ask about on this board, you cannot base going to work for them on what you are told. For one MT a certain company is terrific and for another it is horrific. I am once again working for a company who got honors on this board, who promised me a certain amount of work each day and an increase. So far, I am out of work almost every day and the increase is long past due. If you are looking for a new home, read the ad and judge for yourself if this sounds like a good place to work. Then, make your list of questions to ask the recruiter, put them in an email to her and have her confirm everything that is written there and send it back to you. Keep that as a record of what you were promised. If after working for them you find that things are not what they were to be, shake the dust off your tailfeathers and move on. There is no sense in questioning, complaining or hoping for help, because in most cases you will be ignored. I also get a bit upset with the issue of companies who offshore. What makes the difference if you work for a company who offshores work, as long as you are given your fair share and a paycheck? I have worked for 3 so-called All American companies and I really don't see that this makes them treat their MTs any better. Outsourcing is here to stay. From our clothes to the food we eat, they all mostly come from other lands. We might as well accept the fact that MT work is going to be done to some degree off shore and just live with it and do the best we can here as American MTs. When I accepted the facts and developed the attitude I just described, I found myself more content and less stressed about this profession. Rely on your own instincts, talents and abilities and know you are the best you can be. If that isn't enough for whoever you are working for, they aren't worth your time.
I think I have come to the conclusion..sm
I am going to stick with my measly 15-20 hours a week at my MTSO and do something else on the side to make up for money I am not making MTing.
It is not a foregon conclusion that in nursing
odd hours, shifts or days, except perhaps in the latter part of the nursing program that incorporates the practicum. The options that nursing offers to you are far broader than an MT can ever hope for. In Houston, you can even do 3 16-hour shifts over, be considered full time and be off 4 days. You may also want to consider nursing administration, which has a more traditional schedule structure of M-F 8-5. No doubt the schooling and maybe first year or so would be pretty rough, but in the long term, the pay-off will be well worth it.
In terms of your babies, many of us do not have the luxury of even having our children as long as 1 or 2 years. I was a single parent and had no choice but to put my son into day care at 3 months old. Back then, I worked M-F 8-5 in-house jobs, but when he was 9, they started outsourcing and I came home to work. Even then, I still continued him in day care/after school programs for a few more years because he loved it. Being an at-home MT, I was a slave to my office even when he was home and missed out on many a soccer game, birthday parties and all PTA meetings. He is 31 years old now, a great son, my best friend and no worse for the wear.
You are fortunate to have found a calling to follow at this early stage in your life. I say go for it whole-heartedly. You are much, much stronger than you think and your kids are too.
I can see how the posts might lead to that conclusion
I think a lot of people just know there are a lot of KS people on the board and so throw the questions out there. I don't think that's necessarily management's fault.
Very interesting conclusion. My first and continuous 3:00 am (sm)
thoughts were OVERHIRE on the account to keep contractual agreement re: TAT.
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