Good read. Thanks for posting.

• Protecting your employability and livelihood (SM) - MT Pundit
  • Adaptability - MTH
  • Valuable post, thanks. MT plus Skills Upgrade minus Complaining = Dollars. NM - MsIndigo
  • My 2 cents worth here (smile) ... - Former MTSO
  • My turn to rant - sort of - Malki Reed
    • Bravo. Well said! nm - HolidayMT
  • Well if it's a competition, I guess - Me
  • Comments - Lillybelle
  • Pundit's rant - Mary Thomson
  • I believe clinicians prefer experienced MTs. - CalifRADMT
  • Well said.... - nowherelady
  • You sound like most MTSOs who don't - want to pay what people are worth.
    • When do physicians give feedback to MTs? - Never heard of that happening. nm
      • When you have your own accounts, they do! - But, then again, most times they trust the MT
        • But poster talking bout working through MTSO, - not own accts. nm
    • Bravo!!!! - Georgia MT
    • She's bbbaaaaaackkk. - nm
  • Agree with most of this but not all. - NM
  • a bunch of hooey, and over-generalized. - sm
    • I've lost track of how many people who've asked about it to NOT - go into MT - a sweatshop industry. n/m
  • new MTs vs. experienced MTs - never2late2learn
  • An experienced MT, I agree and disagree with you sm - Lyndia
  • Good read. Thanks for posting. - nm

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Goldbird

...and now that I've cleaned my office, I can't find the book I read it in!

I did look up an association of science writers and they have lots of info, and this page seems to have a link to the discussion of whether science writers need a Master's degree. It's too early in the a.m. for me to have read it, though!

http://www.nasw.org/resource/beginning/archives/000184.htm#more

Diane

I am in a similar situation.  I have no idea what to do either but don't want to turn either one away.  One I have had for 3 months but get paid equivalent to once a month which sent me on my job search in the first place.  Two of the jobs called me back and they both want FT.  One is more flexible and the work is easier but the other seems more reliable and answers e-mails right away.  They both have direct deposit which is huge for me.   The one I have now doesn't.   I am so confused.  Need to make a decision today.  Maybe we should team up?

Let us know how what you decide.  I will be checking back to see how things went.  Good luck.:)

Why does anyone still work there?

I don't get it.

you've forgotten your own words! Your post above is 100% different "flavor" to it, now all positive and cheery! Your first post was 100% doom and gloom every which way, including "raining on your parade", and "if you want to go forward"...God, sounds like she's talking about jumping into oncoming traffic! Here is your quote:

My first boss (the one who hired me as a new grad) gave me some words of wisdom that I haven't forgotten. She said that transcribing at home with small children NEVER works under any circumstance. Either the work will suffer or the parenting will suffer.

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How can the word "NEVER" in caps be interpreted in any positive way? You took about 8 paragraphs to cover every aspect and completely dash this poor woman's dream.  I'm not blind, I'm not talking about day care at all, I'm talking about the total negativity of your original post! You know exactly what I'm talking about, cause you added some sugar to your second version! And that's much nicer than the first!

Some of my stuff has been acting weird, too.  Just curious...have you tried uninstalling the Update w/ Service Pack?  Long story short, my DBF is in IT, said to uninstall the update, but when I tried it said "this update cannot be uninstalled."  Oh great!!!  Guess I should have known to have him install a Service Pack manually.  They can screw things up big-time sometimes if they're not done right. 

Anyway, ditto on the heads up folks.

I saw a similar ad, maybe the same one as you, and I too wondered how much could be done in an hour.  It sounded like it could be fascinating but I too was apprehensive about how complicated it would be and what the hourly pay would amount to. 

I used to do this kind of thing back in the 80s and charged at a minimum $25 an hour based on the time it took me to transcribe.  I got plenty of work, but it was often a headache trying to follow along and keep track of who was saying what, etc.  If it was really difficult, I'd contact them after an hour or so into it and tell them it was going to be pretty expensive and give them the option of taking it elsewhere.  They usually told me to keep going and they'd pay whatever it cost and then tell their friends so I'd keep getting more and more of it.  Sometimes it seemed like no amount of money was worth the hassle of it!! 

Just re-posting about speakers, as I did not get any responses: Note: I have the couple speaker brands that were originally mentioned written down.

I would like to get away from headphones too.

Where do I find those speakers mentioned (or other good ones I can use)?

Right now I am plugging my headphones into $30 speakers I got at Best Buy. They sound crappy without my headphones.

Thanks for any help you can provide.