Before OP asks, pay lower taxes due to

• if you don't mind my asking?? - ALMT
  • I think that will depend on what your cpl rate is...sm - MTN
    • good lord but how in the world do you do 300 lph??? - amazed
  • Confused by your post. Can only make $25 per - hour as IC. No can do as employee. nm
    • well i guess that explains it - ALMT
      • An IC working smarter, not harder, does not - work all the time. And pays less taxes usually.
        • Before OP asks, pay lower taxes due to - deductions allowed by being IC. nm
          • I wish you would not make a blanket statement about things you don't understand about taxes sm - think then speak
            • Disagree, as an IC you can take those deductions - plus a whole lot more..
              • Exactly what my work at home employee - relative said. nm
            • Since when as an employee can you get deductions? - I thought employees weren't eligible to claim t
              • Like I tried to say in my last post, it PAYS to talk to a CPA about taxes. nm - think then speak
                • There was nothing in your last post about - talking to CPA. Maybe you forgot to add that.
            • A relative, employee at home, told me she - her deductions less than mine as IC. nm
  • expansion, expansion, expansion - anon
    • well i do too. I also s/m - ALMT
      • You said no IC answers - so I'm confused too (sm) - Carolina
        • IC usually make a lot more cpl - ALMT
          • Not true anymore. - Recent job hunter.
          • Oh, I see now. But I make less than that as an IC (sm) - Carolina
            • REALLY? do you pay your own taxes? - ALMT
              • You pay your own taxes, too. Just employer - takes out of your pay and sends to IRS. nm
              • I do pay my own taxes. Avg $15-20 an hour. (sm) - Carolina

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Just think about what you are willing to work for and go from there.  Or you can just be honest and tell them flat out what you expect.  I did that with the full-time job I have.  I decided that if I were going to go back to being an employee, I was just going to be totally honest about what I wanted.  They pay hourly where I'm at.  When the HR girl made the offer, I countered and told her what I had hoped to make.  And in the end, I got it which was pretty exciting.  Just be professional and honest.

corrections, I always put my initials on the report right after hers and I expect anyone who goes into any of my reports to make a correction to do the same and that includes QA people.  Where I work, the transcription clerk will put her initials in a report even if she just had to go into the report and delete a blank line to make the report upload correctly.  She puts an asterisk by her initials to let us know that she didn't make any changes to the text, just made adjustments for uploading purposes.

I've been told at other jobs by the QA bunch that whatever software we use automatically keeps a virtual record of each person who accesses a report, but I just like knowing who else has messed with my report.  I can't tell you how many times when I worked in the office, an irate doctor has come in saying "who's LN" or "who's RB".  So if QA went into the report and changed something, I want the doctor to see their initials too.

Aargh.  It happened all day yesterday.  When I brought in text that was all caps

IMPRESSION:

and had lower case on keyboard (as always do), it reverses keyboard commands.  This is driving me c-r-a-z-y.

I would never, ever lower my rates.  Is the one doctor in the group that is complaining a constant whiner?  He may just be a tightwad that still has the first .01 he ever earned.  Think about it - we complain about the cost of gas increasing and the cost of groceries increasing, but those businesses sure aren't going to drop the price of their product due to our complaining just to keep our business.  You run a business and the point of that is to earn money.  If you or a family member had to see this particular doctor, would he drop his office visit rate because you complained about his bill?  Never!

Not only that, these are cardiologists - one of the elite money makers in the medical profession. 

Write a note stating that you understand his concerns about the cost, but state that in spite of your expenses increasing along with everything else recently, you will agree not to go up on your rate for a year instead.  Tell him while there is less expensive out there, it comes back to the old saying of, "you get what you pay for." 

I have been doing transcription for many years now.  For many of those years I was paid 9 cents/line per 70 character count with the WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS) program.  I have now been switched over to Microsoft Word and there is a variation in word/line count and a drop in my pay.  Can anyone explain this please?

Was setting up a surveillance camera because I am a single woman who lives alone. 

 As I was programming it, I could a glimpse of myself and nearly fell off the chair!   I loook old and tired (47). 

Have been so busy and so stressed for the last six months, I haven't really taken care of myself.  I just joined gym, quit smoking, am cleaning up my act.

But, nothing is going to take the bags away from my eyes.  Am thinking of plastic surgery.  If anyone has had this done, can you tell me whether it was worth the money to you?

As you know, I am far from rich but have few bills other than the general overhead (no credit cards).

thanks!  I work very hard and it would be a gift to myself.