Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out

• how do you stay consistent and productive working at home? - sm
  • productivity - msbeanctr
    • So how many hours a day do you work? nm - Wow!
      • hours - msbeanctr
  • I just imagine myself as a bag lady nm. - Me
  • Just pretend that.... - SM
  • Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out - on days but found I was more productive sm
  • took me a while to adjust. sm - Ah! Summer!
  • The key to doing this is you have to have a routine and follow it. (sm) - Old Timer
    • Bingo about the phone. I forgot to mention that sm - Ah! Summer!
  • I've had a real problem lately, too. - dog days of summer
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I recently read an ad about a company hiring MT and giving a sign on bonus to work the graveyard shift.  I thought about applying.  I did a few graveyard shifts when I was a nurse’s aide though they were not consistent, just here and there.  It was rough, but it was easier for me to recover because I did not have kids back then nor the responsibilities I have now. 

If I did it consistently, is it easy to adjust? How do you adjust?  Do you have to drink a lot of coffee? lol.   Is there usually more work available at night then say M-F, 8 to 5. 

TIA

I have an interview today with a hospital...work in-house for 3 months, then go home, paid on production. I don't know as of yet what they pay production, so my question is to anyone who works for a hospital at home AND has also worked for a national at home...

Which would be the best to choose? The hospital offers great benefits, but the national I work for now also has benefits, not as good as the hospital, though.  Any input would be most appreciated!

If you still want to stay in MTing, which is a dying job, go to a hospital and apply to do radiology.  They sometimes hire people just out of transcription schools.

But don't work at home thinking you will make any money at all - even with 20 years of experience - the nationals have wrecked that. 

Be under the umbrella of protection at a hospital.  That way when your computer breaks, the weather is bad, you are sick, there is no work - you will not be without a paycheck. 

The nationals are selling a line of BULL.  Gradually they have taken what used to be our built-it benefits------------> and moved it over to their pockets and called it their PROFIT.  They are not brilliant - but they are unethical thieves.

When I first started at home I was like, "this is way tooooooo cool." I can get back to some jobs later.  Then later became later or I was up with the sun, etc.

It took me some time (over a year) but I've figured out what works for me. I usually start at 7:00 a.m. and finish by 2:30 p.m. when the bus arrives from school. If I get lazy and read the paper in the morning, I work 8:00 to 3:30 or whatever. Tonight I have had the occasional evening shift because my daughter needed help on her project for school

Other than that, I usually leave my computer unless I go on in the evening to check my email before I go to bed.

I realized my computer doesn't yell at me loud enough to pound on the keyboard for another hour to make an extra $15 or $20.  Now if I were getting double time, this computer would be on all night. Like that's ever going to happen.

oy!  Those poor kids, not asleep in bed yet, and exhausted mom or dad are tryyyying to catch up with dictation ... imho -- the worst ... though I admit I personally have never had from-the-car-on-the-freeway dictation which I gather beats the band! 

Wailing children are so heart wrenching.

and with a really good incentive plan.  I live in the Kansas City area.  $10 seems like a low starting point even with only two years experience which is the usual benchmark for hospital MT jobs. 

It's been my experience that the low end of the pay scale for hospital employed MTs was around $12 an hour.  Also, it's been my experience that the pay offered is usually based on years of experience and how well you perform on the transcription test.

I would say if their pay is that low, they should at least be making it up with incentive and it doesn't sound like they are.

JMO

and all I currently know about the ENT office is that they have some system in place currently in-office that the doctors dictate into using a phone.  Their work is currently done in-house by 1 full-time MT who is retiring and 1 p.r.n. MT.  I currently use high-speed (cable) internet but might possibly be soon moving to a location that would only have satellite for high-speed (or dial up).