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a month ago and can't afford the $125 to quit.

Do they still charge you $125 to ship back the computer if you're there for more than 45 days?

but have you tried cut and pasting document into a Word document just to get a rough idea?  Or is that what you did already?

My first year as FT IC, when I had the accounts set up I did a guesstimate of my income and expenses, go ahold of the required Federal tax forms, and did a mock-up. This gave me a ball-park figure of what taxes would be due the Feds. After the first year when I paid it all in one lump sum in April (having stashed the money monthly in a savings account), then the Feds sent me a pack of quarterly payment slips.  From that point on I paid quarterly.

You can pay as much as you want to the Feds (they'll take it!), and I tried to hedge on the side of caution, so sometimes I got a refund. Most of the time I had paid my taxes fairly accurately.

The advice to talk to an accountant for your state is a very good one, especially if this is your first at-home business venture. Usually CPAs don't charge a horrid amount for a consultation and it can make things a lot easier for a newcomer to Schedule C.

You can e-mail me with more specific questions, will help if I can. Good luck to you! 

Lots of work.  Decent dictators for the most part (in my pool).  I like the management team.  They answer  your questions and are very nice and very  helpful, as are the QA people.

I opted for full time and work Sunday through Thursday on the day shift. They are very flexible too if something comes up during your shift. You can pick a schedule that fits your needs and don't necessarily have to do 8 hours 5 days in a row.  I like having my two days off together (Fri and Sat).  Haven't had that happen in a looooooooooong time.  :)

The platform takes a bit of getting used to, but my old platform (MQ) was cemented in my brain for the past 4 years.  The team and QA people have been very helpful with that as well.

It was only my first week, but it went very well.  I like it much better than my old job.

Good luck!! 

Okay, I graduated from a branch of CareerStep in 2000, but the company that did the training was only training for one physician group.  The training was very localized to acute care (so I have trouble with other specialities, but I am learning) and when I started working it was acute care.

Problem is that once I was given this job I found out they didn't offer benefits if you weren't full time...and they couldn't move me to full time.  I left to start working in high tech with medical benefits.  Since then I have worked per diem (The company would call and ask me to cover for MTs on vacation or for excessive workload) but I was paid cash or off the books; so I can't use these companies as references.

So many companies say no newbies...but I am not a newbie.  I also have trouble passing the tests that others give because of how limited my training was.  I score a 92 and they want 95 or I score 84 and they want 85.  It's so close!

Any ideas on what I can do?  My last few job positions were with small companies (really just one MT saying they own a company which is really just a group of MT's using this one person as a recruiter)  and the lack of support or even professionalisim is appalling.  I was actually accused of lying on my resume with the last one.

I took these per diem jobs hoping they would result in more permenant employment, but no such luck. 

Any suggestions would be helpful, it seems that I am somewhere between newbie and experienced even though I have 9 years of experience!

Thanks 

and I'm only getting 8.5 c.  I'm FT, acute care and do the weekend.  And I have 18 years experience with acute care.  That totally sucks. I'm so depressed now. I wish I would have never read this whole thread. 

week.  I really like their program.  It is much easer than MQ DQS.  Yes, every report I did was an ESL.  The easier ones are probably going to VR.  I am going to give them some time and see how it goes.  I think eventually all MT companies will be like this because VR will get the clearer speakers.  It pays to be proficient in ESLs.  Of course, the accouts I do at MQ are over 50% ESLs and so far the work at Transcend has not come near the difficulty of some of the ones I do at MQ, but that may change, I am trying them out.  I also think their voice quality is not as good, kind of like light static on the line.  Their communication is much, much better than I have ever had at MQ.  All I have to do is email or pick up the phone and they get right back to me.  I never, ever get a response to MQ.  If I can make as many LPH at Transcend as at MQ, I may quit MQ, not sure yet.  So far I have found Transcend superior to MQ, but MQ is the only service I have worked for at home, so nothing to base it on.