$18.5K two smaller nationals. nm

• $$ - Nosey-Rosey
  • Ask me next year. sm - Can't say
  • close to 17g with 15 days off w/out pay, w/benes at national - nm
  • About 16,500 - A
  • A lot! - asdfjkl;
  • 16,000 mid year, feel bad about myself after SM - $$
  • $$ - TMI but....
  • as of June, I'm at 47,000 and that was with one month off! - nm
    • Who? What? Why? When? Where? How? LOL - PLEASE TELL US
      • auto text, auto text auto text - I also have ... - noname
        • Hi. I emailed you. If you didn't receive it please - Amy
        • Oh.. "off the books" pay? You mean tax evasion. LOL nm - Oh Really?
          • I do pay taxes --- MOST DEFINITELY PAY TAXES - no name
            • Maybe I misunderstood but you said they pay you "off the books" -- so you don't report THAT - Oh Really?
  • $36.5K, national and - no life
  • $1,200 month working part-time with National/other. nm - That's all I can stand
  • I probably shouldn't bite, but (sm) - here ya go --
  • $18.5K two smaller nationals. nm - IC
  • half year mark - Patti
  • $15,000.... Hospital employee, telecommuting from home, working less than full-time. - nm
  • $18,000+, small national. nm - WAH
  • 20K as of the end of June ... sm - Dana
  • $6K....would have been more but my kid comes first! - nm - Laura E.

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I am hoping to get some names of some good Small National companys to work for. 

Thanks in advance for your help!

I may be needing my own health ins. coverage in the future and I was wondering if anyone knows of any good companies that don't require acute care experience (and preferably will accept dial-up - but that part could change). I have 12 years of multi-specialty experience and have always worked as an IC but may need to consider employee status. I need to work from home due to health issues.

Thanks so much.

The smaller ones have better accounts, useful macros and expansions, decent line rates, nice supervisors/owners, but probably IC with no benefits.  I don't care about that as long as I can crank out the lines in a small amount of time.

shift key on the righthand side of the keyboard.  I keep hitting the keys beside or below it.  Do you eventually get used to it?  Right now I am looking at the Goldtouch and the Kinesis Maxium.   Would appreciate anyone's input. 

Disagree, no matter whether you are an I/C with own accounts or with a national or even small MTSO, we are all at the beck of the doctors.  If they are off or do not dictate, there is no work.  I do not think that the majority of you realize how hard is to balance out having enough staff to do the work to keep the accounts and also keep them busy when the work does not come in, especially when the help does not think twice about someone in the family being acutely ill when they are not, taking off for children field trips on a whim, children being sick or whatever the excuse is not to work.  It takes quite a juggline act to accommodate both employees and acounts themselves.   That said -- flame me as I have already been burnt many times by people who do not have a work ethic or want to work when they want to and not when the work is available.

I have been in this business over 20 years.  I started when we used IBM Selectrics and tapes.  I have seen this business changing over the years, some good, some bad.  One thing in particular is the very large national companies getting more and more of a monopoly in the transcription business.  This has had an impact on the MT.  I am making less per line than 15 to 20 years ago, and I seen that is widespread in this industry.  I see it is getting more and more impersonal. 

20 years ago many MTs were getting 7 to 7.5 CPL.  I see that still happening.  Adjust that for cost of living increases and inflation, and I feel wages have gone down.

Now we must compete with overseas work and if an MT wants to do VR, they must take a pay cut, at some companies of up to 50% of your line rate. I remember many years ago when they were talking about implementing VR, we were told we would not have pay cuts, just be able to type more.  I knew then that they were lying, of course they would cut our wages.  They will squeeze and squeeze to get the most money for themselves.  Many of these CEOs make millions, but what about all the unethical business practices.  Remember Enron. 

I feel most of these changes are because of the a few very large nationals changing the nature of the business.  Of course, they want to make as much money as possible.  Everybody does, I cetainly do.  But it seems to me they are doing it at the expense of the individual MT. 

Did you know many transcription companies actually train the MTs in India and then give them a job.  If you are in the good old USA, you pay for your own schooling and are lucky to get your foot in the door because of no experiernce. 

I think if there were fewer nationals and more smaller companies, maybe the MT would benefit.

wife's kind of job......need a second income to live.

It is no longer a career

It is no longer a respectable job.

They have lowered it to _drop in_ make a few bucks_go to bed

But don't expect or receive RESPECT, A LIVING, OR ANYTHING ELSE

from a transcription company.  They are there to make the profit

OFF OF YOU.

Bows sounds real darn good - when do we start - I'll make the

wagon to sell them from - I'm pretty handy with power tools now since

my husband left because I had to type 26 hours a day!  Stupidly he thought

we should have a life.