Absolutely correct!

• Let's Talk - Tired MT
  • Disgruntled - TiredMT2
  • I don't know if it is the Companies trying to rip off MT's but - MTSO seeing it 2
  • One thing I have realized since I left MT....sm - Marie
    • I think one reason MTs find it hard to have diverse skills (s/m) - Burned
  • As long as this country allows greedy companies (s/m) - Burned, 2
    • To the poster below who equates the BIble Belt with political views - it has nothing to do with religion - see message
    • Wrong - if you had gone to college you wouldn't be having this conversation. - Bad choices = no options.
      • Sounds like all the doublespeak inflicted on us at our employee meetings. Finger-pointing, no const - Burned
      • So how many years of college do you have, and why do you still transcribe? (n/m) - ??
        • I am working towards my master's and I don't transcribe any longer. - nm
          • What field? (nm) - ??
            • Working towards my MBA (business) - nm
      • Eewwww... you don't talk like an MT, you talk like mangement. Ick. (n/m) - Burned
        • Oh, God forbid anyone talk like *gasp* management! - We don't actually WANT to be smart,do we?
          • Have you ever known anyone in mgmt. with ANY basic intelligence? (nm) - Burned
            • Apparently management is smarter than you - they're your boss! - LOL
          • No matter what the intellect, or the job or pay, management SUX!! - Yada
            • that's what all unsuccessful resentful people say - nm
              • So what is it that you do that you're so successful at, & how much do you make? (nm) - Yada
                • I own several rental properties, buy houses and flip them and - sm
                  • are/were u an MT/ME? *curious*...sm - jes wonderin' why you're here ...curious
      • Going to college does not change things - sm
        • You are so wrong! (see m) - Unbelievable
          • college or not - deb
          • the people who really make BIG BUCKS are business owners - my take on it
          • Absolutely correct! - sm
        • certainly going back to college doesn't protect from outsourcing.. - JoV
          • College is sometimes nothing more than a 4-year babysitting service. (n/m) - N.K.
            • That's what all jealous uneducated people say - nm
              • you need an education cuz you're lacking - see inside for an important lesson on same..sm
              • you sound completely narrow minded....nm - so much for all YOUR education!! *lol*
              • there's all kinds of *education* and education - does not stop until we die.....nm
                • that's another thing uneducated people say - nm
                  • evidently you have no clarity about all....nm - education and where all is gleaned from..nm
          • College education and outsourcing - Hot and sunny
            • I doubt that any radiologists here are sweatin' bullets, hon - they are educated professionals
              • Ours do - hosp. is considering having our x-rays done here, but READ in India! (nm) - B.K.
                • Maybe that's a good thing - it's a reason for the Indian docs to GO HOME - buh-bye
          • But it does open our options to move on to careers rather than joe-jobs - college degrees open doors
      • And we were supposed to finish school and work FT (sm) - Retired MT
        • You're supposed to go back to school because of this government??? - Are you serious???
          • Yes, quite serious (sm) - Retired MT
            • Retired or retarded? Anyone can retire if they set their life standards low enough - I don't plan on watching TV in my sunset years
              • All you fans of the government must be from one o' them RED states.......... - Blu State
                • Same reason you do, except I don't have anything to complain about! - LOL
                  • Actually LIFE is very fulfilling. It's working that sux! (sm) - Blu State
                    • Does working interfere with your incessant TV watching? - such a wonderful fulfilling life you lead
                    • I'm not in the Bible Belt, o judgmental one, unless you don't know geography either. Another r - Roll over on the couch and check out COLLEGE on Go
                      • I don't recall mentioning couches or TV-watching! Net-surfing is okay if one can't sleep, bu - Blu State
  • I understand your frustration but this is happening in all fields. - It's called change and evolution.
    • Exactly! How many blacksmiths do you know? - nm
      • Four. And they make very good money. - :-)
        • and how many IT technicians, how many programmers, how many help desk people? - HUNDREDS is a lot more than four
  • Back in 1983, there was an article - none
    • I was making 6 cpl back in 1975! There is DEFINITELY something wrong! (s/m) - Burned, 2
      • In 1989 I was making 6 CPL..now 9 CPL - for nat'l and 12 CPL privately...nm
      • there's no stopping outsourcing now - Around the World in 80 days
        • There's more than one job path so the best thing to do is - get an education & do something else
      • I'm tired - typos ... (sm) - Burned, 2
        • AAMT didn't cause conditions to plummet BUT - Mary-Land

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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.