Absolutely correct!

• Wal-Mart doesn't offer health insurance to millions of workers but now they are selling it to - the public thru Sam's Stores. What is that??
  • They do offer insurance to Full-time employees. nm - babs
    • FT jobs is not what is available for the most part. - Management/Admin. are FT
      • I just answered the insurance post. I don't know if they have slave labor or not. nm - babs
        • Well what is slave labor? Unpaid? Do these people willing report to work unpaid? - A slave is ?
      • OMG, you FORGIVE Walmart shoppers? Are you nutz. Did Walmart - ENOUGH!
      • I don't know of any store in my area that hires people full-time. - why bash Walmart?
        • Obviously the poster has a tunnel-vision one-sided view of Walmart. - Liking Walmart better everyday!
          • worker in S. Florida has a bad 'tude..and...sm - i don't know where u live but every WalM
  • Wal-Mart - MT2
    • Actually, they do offer insurance to SM - sm
      • My sources have told me this.... - MT fighting super Wal-Mart
        • Walmart in our area. - mtathome
        • I don't need to research what I said SM - ex-WM mgmt
          • Unions - MT fighting super Wal-Mart
            • Unions protected workers from exploitation - Coal miners, child labor, white lung
              • This is ridiculous. Get an education and become more than an unskilled laborer. - Nonunion and glad.
                • Absolutely correct! - sm
                • part time employees do get benefits - mt25
                • thanks Darwin for your input - sm
                  • it's a natural law. don't waste your time posting - darwin
                    • I love this poster! - Thank you for making sense!
            • Unions may be good for workers short-term, but look what has happened to American car union workers. - Some insight
              • You are right on. There's only so much you can expect to be paid - for the skills union workers have. NM
  • If this is just a nasty rumor, - Heard it in CNN
    • Sorry, this should have gone below - Ooops.
  • My company doesn't offer health insurance. I'll buy it at Sam's Store. - Thanks!
    • It's hypocritical to not give your workers health insurance but sell it to the public to line - corp. pockets. nm
      • It's not hypocritical. It's a business decision. The workers can buy health insurance like I - And lots of other Americans.
        • The problem is this.... - MT fighting super Wal-Mart
          • Unskilled labor doesn't make much more than minimum wage anywhere. - Me again.
            • And my point is this..... - MT fighting super Wal-Mart
        • I bet other insurance carriers have insurance for their employees. Why not Wal-Mart? nm - GIve it to workers, THEN sell it.
          • Hey, I got an idea. My sister works for a jewelry store. - Maybe they should give her a diamond.
            • We have a bowling center - EXMTMT
              • I suggest if you are looking for perks where you work and poster thinks - Go for broke
            • For decades, a company benefit has been health insurance - I think that is her point
              • Everyone is PAYING for health insurance now because of soaring cost - FYI
                • why is insurance so expensive? - jade

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However, I worked on-site and only made $25,000.00 after 17 years, started at $7.00 an hour.  So, the ones who say they made $75,000.00 are not giving you all of the facts.

The realm of an MT per hour is from 13-17 an hour; look it up.  It's true.  However, if you have your own accounts (which I do), I charge more per line and have templates set up so that I breeze through my dictators that I've done for the past 10 years, which yields me around 25-30 an hour.  These circumstances are not common, I know that now. 

I think you're doing great!  Keep up the good work!  I'm not here to blast ya'!  You are the wave of the future; no MT will get rich and never have been rich. 

I think some of us who have been in this profession though see that it's tough to raise rates at this time because of the fear of losing the account to a large company.  I'm just a small guy, I don't require much really, so I'm happy with what I make.  I also love being at home full-time.  I'm able to manipulate my schedule and not feel so "hum-drum."  I learn something new every day, not all pretty either, but I've learned more specialties working online than on-site. 

At this point in my life (I'm in my 30s), this profession suits me just fine.  Advice to new MTs, give it a whirl!  You may be surprised that you really can make some money if you just relax and stop listening to the "nay-sayers."  As a matter of fact, I have never done VR, but think it would be interesting.  If pretty much everything is there, then all the better; this may be another good way for a new MT to break into the business and learn is with the VR... 

Endorsed by an MT who still feels "liked, wanted, and needed" in this profession! 

It is the on-site jobs that gets ya' out there....  Some docs are just great payers and know good work when they see it.  I think they like local because you are familiar with all of the things that go into that report, i.e., referring physicians, facilities, diagnostic centers, etc.  It saves them the headache of correcting all of those mistakes.

My own personal PCP has complained to me in an office visit about the local hospital that uses an outside service and can never get his name right.  The problem is that the physicians are not the ones making the decisions, it is the hospitals that make those decisions as far as in the hospital environment.  I know physicians at the hospital that I worked at that were p'od when they found out we would no longer be transcribing their reports.  They were just so set in their ways and they got good TAT and a good quality report - but no more, and yes I still to this day hear terrible feedback about the outsourced company and how the doctors spend countless hours correcting things.  End of Story...  {sigh}

I wish you the very best of luck!  You'll do great!

and will take better care of it if they have to work for it.  We obtained a loan for our son to have his car and then he had to pay us back monthly, as well as keep up his insurance payments, car repairs, etc.  However, I do know that A LOT of parents feel it is a requirement for them to buy their children cars.  I personally think that is asking for trouble in the long run.  Nothing in this life is free and kids need to know that, especially since they're getting ready to enter the real world.