This is no hobby for me.
Posted By: There are single Mom's working for minimum wage on 2007-02-26
In Reply to: I am just totally amazed at this what some people think is fair for us!! - Not amazed anymore!
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? 
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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
Toughest hobby I ever had.
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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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Aha !! Retired and painting gourds as a hobby? Envy you. nm
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