The only reassurance is self confidence

Do you seriously expect answers to that many questions?  If this was a paid survey - maybe.  I'll give you a general answer to the gist of your line of questioning.

Why do most of us work?  MONEY.  I'm willing to stick with any job as long as my bills get paid.  It is not to my benefit to keep changing jobs and going through the hassles of learning new software and platforms, and starting out again with no seniority and tiny PTO accumulations.  IMO, transcriptionists job hop mainly because companies overhire and make glowing promises.  Some things I can put up with - the rising costs of insurance, new company policies, requesting me to change my schedule for the good of all.  I will grumble, but I will stay.  If and when I cannot pay my bills due to CONSISTENT lack of work, or being forced into new platforms where it is impossible to make any money, I will move on to the next company.

Meanwhile I am constantly looking for ways that I personally can improve my production and be the best that I can be, and I don't blame the company if my own personal issues cause my productivity to suffer.  Given the option I would stick with my current job forever AS IT IS TODAY.  But clients come and go (yet nobody carries on about THEIR turnover), the industry constantly comes up with new standards that rip off the MT, company policies go into effect that whittle away paychecks by reducing line bonuses, glitchy new software is introduced that reduces productivity, new off clock demands that require us to donate unpaid hours, etc.  If the companies weren't constantly throwing curveballs like these that for some are the final straw, less MTs would on the move.

I have not been an MT all my career life, and if and when I cannot make a living being an MT, I will go back to coding or find another genre.  Yes, working at home has spoiled me rotten and I would really mourn if I had to give it up, but realistically I realize it is a possiblily.  It is a hassle to change fields, but I am not afraid because I have portable clerical skills that will always be in demand somewhere, and know I am capable of learning whatever I must to get the job done and keep the paychecks coming.

• Does the Medical Transcription industry encourage job-hoppers? - curiosity killed the cat
  • answers - Carly Sighman
  • I would respectfully use the words "force" or cause to describe....sm - CindiRI
    • I can relate. Out of everything you said, what always irritated me most..sm - lil
      • forgot to add..sm - lil
  • why not??? - Webmedx'r
  • Personally speaking here ... my opinion only ... - SM
  • The only reassurance is self confidence - will hop if and when I must
  • All I know is that my first manager - Z
  • wow, what a long list - marilyn
  • The job hoppers are 2 kinds-SM - answer for you
    • Mts have "personality disorders" ? Like, wanting to be paid what their worth and not lied to? - lbl
      • Like Suze Orman says... - Stop putting yourself on sale
        • When was the last time Orman had to get a real job? - Bonnie Blue
          • Her job is advising and consulting. LOL - She used to be a WAITRESS!! :)
            • Point is, she lives in an ivory tower - Bonnie Blue
      • "ONLY a profession of predominantly women would call the other women crazy for wanting the basics - Could not agree more. sm
        • You said it! Women defined careers just don't pay - Carly Sighman
  • How is this going to help you find a job? What is your point? - Lonnie
    • She wants reassurance. I wish I could give - it.
    • what makes you think she is trying to find a job? - n/m
      • Maybe this part (see inside) - not Lonnie...
        • She also asked for name of company - Carly Sighman
  • Most companies fall short on their promises - IC MT
    • An IC can only be treated as an employee if she - allows it. nm
      • Yes, I agree, and I also think this contributes to - IC MT
  • I'll bite - Anon
  • Yes - they do.

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them to have said while I was spending $500 to get a new computer

in order to type their work, that they probably would not have SE

in a couple of months, and just rent a computer until I could move over

to Employee status.

But you know what, when I was an employee they made it impossible to

make the lines in order to be an employee because I mostly crap and was

working 12 hours to get 1000 lines (and I know I can do acute care as

I have done this work for 20 years and had just left a hospital acute care setting where I had no problem making 1200 lines a day.

I'm just about ready to dump this whole thing.  But thanks for your

reply.  I'm still steamed that in dozens of phone calls my supervisor

couldn't have shared any of this with me.  That's what she's there for.

type.  I've been doing it for years.  I only re-read reports that the dictator is extremely nonsensical, can't put a sentence together to save his/her life, or if the dctator just seems like they don't know what they are doing.  But other than that, I feel pretty confident that I put out accurate reports.  I generally get 99-100% on my QA evals and I'm one the high producers in my department.

I've trained many a Transcriptionist who double, triple, even quadruple check everything they type because they just don't trust themselves.  If you are a newbie, I can understand not trusting yourself yet, but generally if you've been doing this for more than 2 years, you should know what you're doing and you should trust yourself.  If you don't, then you're in the wrong business.  Unfortunately, we are in a profession were we are expected to be both accurate and productive.  If you have a problem achieving both, then again you're in the wrong profession.