Actually I did go to college and I'm not bitter at all....sm

• Forced to work scheduled shifts..no flexibilty..what gives??? So frustrated. - Frustrated
  • Companies have to be sure they are covered for specific times, many - j
    • yes you can..... - me
      • I am an IC also and work - countrymt
    • Wrong answer. You are mistaken. - IC work is flexible.
      • She does not say she is an IC. If they are requiring an 8-hour day then she - j
        • Also, the MQ does not have IC, only PT and FT, so they do set schedule. (nm) - j
    • What's the point of workign at home if there is no flexibilty? - Frustrated
      • See inside .... - deb
  • What about this scenario: - Beyond Frustrated
    • Cannot legally require you to commit time to them as an employee and then not pay you for that time. - seems to me
      • I have to agree - LinK
    • You need to read IRS laws....they have to pay - you for down time if employee
  • If you are paid hourly, you obviously are not an IC. sm - searching
  • Companies have to be able to count on - when you'll work.
    • I would have to disagree. - As an IC it is against the law to require
      • Totally agree with you. Often compare my work with that of a painter - sm
      • You know about the part about independent but - Nope
      • I was promised I would have flexibility, then NOTHING - Frustrated
        • About benefits - Just remembered
        • I have small kids too - SameBoat
          • Ahh..someone who knows what Im feeling! - Frustrated
            • You're not alone.. - lb
        • Your idea of flexibility obviously isn't the same as - your employer's.
          • I did ask those questions!!!!!!!!!!! - Frustrated
            • Couple questions for Frustrated - amybee
              • Oops - amybee
            • I would think a split shift would benefit them! - Hayseed
              • Thank you so much for being nice! :) - Frustrated
              • Dear Frustrated, here's another idea . . . - AgingMT
                • I am an IC too, and this is what I did - melissa
                • These are great ideas..thank you so much! :-) (nm) - Frustrated

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Just showing the other side of it. I'm trying to point out an employer can expect a few oddball resumes from people grossly underqualified and even those new to the whole process of presenting oneself in resume-style dossier. In the same way, potential applicants can find that the drummed-up company names and profiles for a job posting at any website, in any newspaper, anywhere can be nothing but an e-mail dress and/or fax number of someone trying to subcontract work they are subcontracting from someone else...or worse.

What is unacceptable is when companies tout themselves as major players in the medical transcription field, or demand certain professional standards from their applicants, but cannot get their act together to perform professional, honest and effective interview/testing/hiring sessions. It just helps MTs to identify the people who lack respect for their time and efforts as an applicant, as those MTs can expect the same after being hired.

Obviously Indian-based, but they want to train you to be an MT..check this part out..

Transcription is fun for the right person as it allows you to write and if you love to write, then it is an enjoyable career. Some people who do not like writing because they are not creative still enjoy this medical online profession. Even people who hate writing like this profession because it allows for working at home on a flexible schedule.

OKAY.. what planet are they from..Since when is transcription fun LOL...and I'm sure glad it lets me write whatever I want, because I just love to write..LOL and I get to use my creative ability also to write whatever I like. People who hate MT-ing just do because they hate to write and are not creative LOL. I'm sorry but this just cracked me up. I've thought a lot of things about transcription but FUN was never one of them. Lucky for me though, even though I don't like it, I get to stay at home and have a really flexible schedule..NOT.. lol...

Maybe she just has a fun personality?

What a person does for their entire lifetime is a career, a profession.  Some of us went to college, some graduated, some never went to college.  Who cares?  I spent 27 years doing this so yep, it has become my profession......worked Wall Street for 3 years in the 60s-70s, well that was my profession at the time (decade).  Worked restaurants as a kitchen manager for 5 years - that was my profession during those 5 years and what a chef I am....*LOL*

Worked in a major teaching hospital for 10 years PRIOR to doing full-time MT work.....so yep - the medical profession is my profession and I'm a paraprofessional !!!

Dream on..........

I have 2 kids in college, one I helped on the front end and because of this career, one I will have to help on the back end (meaning help him pay off his loans while he is in school instead of giving him money up front).  The Stafford loans have very low interest rates right now, the rates went down.  I live in Western NY and there are 2 MT jobs that I know of at one hospital.  The other hospitals don't have inhouse transcriptionists.  One uses a service (used to be my competitor) and they are giving all new residents laptops for EMR and the other gave all their doctors laptops 2 years ago.  I'm tired of MTing to be honest, 10-12 hour days, 7 days a week, first as MTSO as qualified people were hard to come by and then because either the service didn't pay, didn't pay on time or didn't have any work so I have needed to work for more than one.  I would love to do anything else.

My son is attending college and I have paid for 2 years through a junior college, but it is now time for him to move to a major university. Because of my salary of just over $40,000 a year, he has never qualified for any type of scholarship, only student loans (which I have paid back). Does anyone know of ANY scholarships, etc. that can be applied for? I know nothing at all about how the system works and feel I have failed in trying to help him (it's all I can do to hold down 2 jobs in order to make the $40,000). We even tried to have him set up on a student work program, but they said you could not do the student work program if you were getting student loans. It was like at every turn, there was something to disqualify him from getting assistance. He carries an 'average' grade point (more interested in social aspects, of course, than his studies). He has never had a counselor at the junior college that helped much. He is interested in sports administration, so the junior college counselor did not know what field to put him in, so she put him in liberal arts, and now we find he needs some other classes instead. I'm searching for any help with limited time to search. He tries, but he does not seem to get anywhere either.   ANYTHING ideas would be appreciated, and thanks in advance.

Maybe our children go to the same college.   

I will start

One daughter goes to Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.  The other daughter will be going to UMass at Amerst in the fall.  

We all have "breaking point" for getting cancer.  Has a lot to do with your immune system and what you are doing to your body, i.e. smoking.  One person smokes and gets cancer at 38  _____1_____________ and the next person smokes and gets cancer at 78 _______________1____.  It's individual and you just never know.  However, the fact that a person gets cancer 10 years after quitting cigarettes doesn't mean they wouldn't have gotten it if they had continued to smoke.  Probably would have gotten it sooner, but since the prior smoking has done it's damage, they got it anyway. 

I heard that if you quit before age 35 you can usually reverse the damage and your risk factors, but after that, there's no going back in a big way.  The damage is done.