To Gourd Painter - Need Clarification

• $50-70/hour?? - Absolutely Amazed
  • What's the secret? Well... - MTHeaded
  • That's the amazing thing about the internet... - mtmetoo
    • Suck it up. - MTHeaded
    • There was absolutely NO need for such a remark!...sm - Stick Figure Artist
    • The ignorant fools believe. - The intelligent fact finders read with a grain of
      • Amen...remember what PT Barnum said about suckers... - mtmetoo
  • Not amazing - Gourd Painter
    • To Gourd Painter - Need Clarification - Absolutely Amazed
      • Clarification - Gourd Painter
        • Gourdpainter - JustMe
          • Obviously s/m - Gourd Painter
            • Gourdpainter - JustMe
              • Same page - Gourd Painter
                • I think they stick their head in the sand - JustMe
                  • Heads in sand - Gourd Painter
                    • Gourdpainter, you're right-- - JustMe
                      • Exactly s/m - Gourd Painter
                        • You should be in California-- - JustMe
        • Actually I didn't quote a figure that I make per hour....sm - Stick Figure Artist
          • Stick figure artist - JustMe
          • Learning - Gourd Painter

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I do okay when I stay off these boards during working hours.  Fortunately, I'm statutory now and don't have to worry about minimum hourly quotas.  I can just kick back and relax. 

I had no idea there was that kind of money in gourd painting.  I'm on the East Coast and I don't think that craze has hit here yet.  Maybe this is my chance to get in on it early.  I'm married to a good ole farm boy, so I'm sure he could help with the dirt part of it and then I could just do the painting part.  I'll have to run that by him and do a little more research on this.  I love to paint and stencil crafts; I've done quite few primitive pieces myself.

Good luck in your new career.  Doing what makes you happy is never wrong!

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...  

You are right on.  Some of us are old enough to remember when we worked directly for the hospital.  Rarely, if ever, was there a shortage of work.  There is no shortage now either regardless of the economy.  What there is is an oversupply of typists.   With the health care reform on the table, hospitals need to cut costs associated with their necessary medical record department.  Are they saving money by outsourcing?  I think not. 

Only the American workers in any industry can change the way they are treated.  They must band together by whatever means, not necessarily unionization per se.   While it is about unionization, I would suggest everyone get and watch the movie Norma Rae.  The point is change doesn't happen without those who are willing to make personal sacrifices to see it happen. 

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.

This is a pretty good festival, and right in our state!

46th Annual 

Isn't it bad enough that we all have to worry about our jobs on a daily basis, worrying if work will be there, if the company that we are working for will actually pay us for the many, MANY hours that we have put in and having to work literally almost every holiday because in this industry, that is just how it is?  Now we have to worry for expressing our opinions, something that, IMHO, is my God given right, after all, last time I checked, we were still living in the United States of America!! 

To me what makes this entire situation even more sickening, is that someone is being paid to watch this board.  This company could use that money, the money that they are paying for attorney fees, court fees, etc., to pay their MTs what they DESERVE and instead of worrying about looking bad on a website, they should do everything in their power to make their company the absolute best in its business.  Again, IMHO.

I am a Psych. transcriptionist, but my training does not apply to MT.  I am really interested in the medical field, but would need to complete a program such as Career Step to becoome familiar with the vocab and the format.

Where I live now, Psych. transcription is not a big market, and I woud like to expand what I have to offer.

Sorry if it was unclear before!

I would like to be perfectly clear, as I have received emails asking me why I stayed so long since I said DSG was bad. 

DSG IS NOT BAD! 

Yes I am yelling here, so please hear me clearly.  I no longer work for DSG.  I worked for them and left 3 times due to..... once not meeting my line count, and twice due to health issues of my own and my MIL.  I was more than ready and happy to go back to DSG.  I was very disappointed that I was not welcomed back as my understanding was if there were openings I would be welcomed back. 

DSG always paid on time every time!  Only once (once in 4 years) was my paycheck off, less than $5 and they corrected it right away on the next paycheck.  They were really great about correcting it, not fights, no trying to prove me wrong or anything.  They just took care of it. 

Jodi, Kim and others always answered my emails and questions without making me feel ever like any of my questions were silly or unnecessary.  They went way, way, way above and beyond with me and my health issues. 

I am very happy where I am at.  I am simply glad that I did not miss this opportunity, which I believe I would have if I had gone back to DSG, as I would not have been looking.  I am very sorry for people who have had a bad experience with DSG.  I am very glad for the ones who have found happiness there.

I always thought that I had found my home with DSG until I was not welcomed back after my leave of absence due to MIL's illness. 

I would still recommend to give DSG a try to anyone, and as a matter of fact I did to someone who emailed me privately based on earlier positive posts about DSG.  She was acute care and always running out of work at her old job.  I told her that I almost never saw acute care being out of work and as a matter of fact that DSG was training me on acute care a little at a time, which I have never been offered that opportunity by any other company. 

So, in conclusion, overall my experience with DSG was good, very good.  Management always nice, attentive, and easy to reach.  As a matter of fact if they ever had openings and I could fit it into my schedule with this new job, I would gladly go back!   

While all the things Stick Finger said are true, and she may make $50 to $75 an hour, it is NOT possible for most MTs.  If she is making this kind of money, and I am not calling her a liar,  there is more to the story than what she is saying.  I say this as one who came from the day when making $100,000/year was quite achievable.....BEFORE computers, using an IBM Wheelwriter, which most of you probably never heard of. 

 What does AAMT have to do with it?  Weren't they the ones who were suppose to be for the MTs?  Aren't they the ones who came up with the 65 cpl pay?  In my opinion they are the ones who sold us out.  I USED to be a member of AAMT and I was certified.  I quit when I realized they were NOT for the MT, they are for making money for themselves.  At least I'm glad they apparently took the American out of their name.

I could say a lot more about the MT business and how and why it has gone to hades in a handbasket but I'm off to paint gourds.

In some ways you are correct.  I have even called my pharmacist to give me the spelling of a new drug.  I would call that conscientious enough.  What I was referring to was ONE word blanks.  I don't know how many reports she went through to find the word or if she left it out, made it up or what but I do know the words were words that I think God Himself would have had trouble understanding as there was nothing in the context to indicate what they even MIGHT be.  That being said, I consider one of TT's Q.A. people among my good friends and we still chat.

I have never  had a problem with Q.A. before except another one of those high fulutin Q.A.s that happened to work for MQ. (NOT the Herndon office but another I was transferred to).    She as much as called me an idiot when she sent back a routine Q.A. and  had changed at the point of INTROmission to read at the point of interim admission.  The report was about a sexual problem.  I was so furious I called the supervisor and her thoughts?.....Oh, I see you are correct but she was just doing her job.  Doing her job!!!!!!????  A few more episodes like that and  I was out of there.  During the several years I worked for ddi, who was reported to have the strictest Q.A. in the industry, I never had anything but compliments.  I don't know whether you do Q.A. or not.  If you do and you are one of the good Q.A. people, who offer feedback when asked and refrain from trying to lord the Q.A. position over the lowly MT, then my hat is off to you.  If, on the other hand, the shoe fits...............

Please note that the company OSi that is being referred to on these boards is Outsourcing Solutions, Inc., NOT Opti-Script, Inc. out of State College, PA. 

Thank you.

with that average... Actually I can't even type 4 hours straight with that! I wear down after a couple of hours. So what I do is I will type and really tear it up for a couple hours straight and take a nice break, do it again for another couple hours, take another break. Fortunately (at least until December 31 anyway...AKA the foreseeable future lol-inside MDI joke) I can do this because of my 24-hour window. I'm going to have to come up with a new game plan as to how I do my work once I have to stick to a set 8-hour schedule.

There have been a few posts that Keystrokes is hiring and a few that Keystrokes is not hiring.  Right now, we are working with our current MTs to make sure that they have the volume of work that they want, accounts that they are happy with and changing our benefits package.  We are transitioning to having primarily full-time MTs, with a few exceptions and have been helping some of the part-time MTs increase their work load to full time.

We continue to grow and will be hiring in the very near future, once we make sure that current employees have everything they want/need.  There are definite gaps that we need filled, all full-time positions, but the openings will not be posted until each and every current employee has had his/her needs addressed.  We are also working on a formal training program for new employees, building a new office and working with MTIA and AAMT on the new apprenticeship program. 

We hope this clears up some of the confusion and questions we have been getting.