"Newbie" or Not,

You should NEVER accept 4 cpl!!  Wages are going down because new MTs (and offshore MTs) are working for embarrassingly low wages!  I've only been working for a little over a year, but I started out at 8 cpl right out of school.  Part-time or not, you're worth more than that.

You wouldn't take a job at McDonald's for $1/hour would you?

Good luck!  I really hope you either find a new company or tell the sorry excuse of a company you have now that you won't work for less than at least 7.5 cpl.

• Is it possible to make a living off of 4 cents a line? - Newbie trying to pay the rent
  • sure, if you live in India. - yikes
  • No you can't live off 4 CPL. - MTing
    • LOL thanks! - Newbie trying to pay the rent
  • 1000 lines a day is only $40 or $800 a month- sm - XXX
  • "Newbie" or Not, - Amanda
    • I thought being a mentoree that 4cpl was a going rate... - Newbie trying to pay the rent
      • Mentoree - Amanda
  • Plain and simple answer: No. - Rad MT
    • Thanks for the great advice. n/m - Newbie trying to make the rent
  • I've got 35 years' experience, transcribe sm - nfm
  • You would have to do a lot of lines per hour at that rate. sm - depends
  • Another newbie - Not on 4 cpl.
    • Are you doing this fulltime and you working for more than 1 company?n/m - Newbie trying to pay the rent
      • Yes, Full-time. - Another newbie
        • And don't forget that 30% of your IC wages need to go for taxes, too. nm - Earning peanuts
    • What is SR? n/m - Newbie trying to pay the rent
      • Speech, or voice, recognition - Starr
        • Thank you! n/m - Newbie trying to pay the rent

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to look a word up when you're not sure.  You just said that you still have to look things up - good for you, at least you're looking things up.  I'm talking about MTs who don't bother to look anything up, just blank, blank, blank, blank because they know that the QA safety net is there to catch them.

I know, I know, with line rates as low at they are, MTs don't want to spend a lot of time on blanks - time is money, yada yada.  I hate to break this to all you MTs out there that think that way, but quality AND quantity is the name of this game.  Like it or not, you are expected to be both productive and accurate.  This is the profession you chose.  I know you just wanted to work from home, but just because you can look like a slob while you work doesn't mean you can produce sloppy work.  You still have to be a professional.

I agree with whomever it was below that said we are paid to QA NOT to train.  If you're new and unsure, then for a fee I will mentor you, but if you've landed a job as an MT with the same company I work for, then my job is to fill in your blanks or randomly evaluate your work.  I have to trust that you know what you're doing, why else would you have been offered the job?  Although I would swear sometimes that some of the MTs I QA had someone else take the test for them!

I get paid hourly for doing QA, so I'm not complaining about my job.  Actually, MT incompetence is job security for me, but every day I have more of an understanding as to why the line rates being offered are so low.

I have a question for those of you that work for national companies and have a set schedule. How important is it that you stick with your schedule? If you can get all the work done before the deadline, is it okay to take an hour or two off for something like cooking dinner or something like that, as long as your get all your work done by the deadline? Just wonderfing!! Thanks!!!

Julia