Hmm, the nasty posts have been coming from those who are either jealous or doubtful.

I have not read any positive contributions from posters who are complaining they don't make enough money working for the nationals. They are only blasting away at those posters who have taken the risk and initiative to get their own accounts. If they have something positive to say about what they're doing that makes their job profitable and fulfilling, I'm just waiting to hear it. I think they just want to complain and see how many people they can bring down with them.Go figure.

• [sigh..] I know I'll get flamed for this, but - sm - 'Shroom
  • I just got an idea - mg
    • So true - (sm) - 'Shroom
      • If you spent some time working instead of - haunting these boards and being paranoid, sm
        • Oh dear, haunting is my pastime... - mg
        • Well, then why don't you take your "holier-than-thou" - sm
          • Why is it holier than thou to tell you - YOU CAN MAKE MONEY? Open your eyes
      • Something Scary! - MTheaded
        • SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME - old schooler
        • under your post, it says Reply By E-Mail - they don't know where it's going - see messa
          • PHEW! - MTheaded
        • If you click on "posted by", you get a - - 'Shroom
          • Thank you! - MTheaded
  • boy - mt
    • A 2-day strike will not hurt patient care - - see message
      • Tell you what - you strike and I'll make my - usual $200 a day. Have fun. nm
  • Where do I sign up? - AnotherOldTimerMT
  • one day - me
  • Well, as far as I know, MQ already does this! - sm
  • No flame--commas & periods go inside quotation marks--ALWAYS. - midwestmt
    • Sorry, but that's how my editors want me doing it. - 'Shroom
  • OR, instead of being funny, it could hurt patient care. - What we do really does matter. nm
    • And the current state of MT affairs doesn't do that ALREADY? - 'Shroom
    • oh come on. - mg
      • Comedy board is for LOL! - why not go there and post?
        • And "harrumph!" to you, too! Geez.... - 'Shroom
    • I hope it is not MY report or someone - in my family's that gets laughed
      • How can you take everything about MT so SERIOUSLY? - No one else does, or else they'd pay us.
      • please - me
        • I laugh at the comedy board not at a strike. - If you can't hang with the big dogs
          • What is your problem? - Cardiology MT
            • There is so much anger in all parts of the (sm) - Food for thought!
              • anger - Lisa
            • Hmm, the nasty posts have been coming from those who are either jealous or doubtful. - sm
              • Anytime someone makes a suggestion for an -sm - My 2 cents (per line?)
          • So go hang with the dogs at the AAMT/AHDI... - mg
            • I don't know who that is and really - if you can't hang with the big dogs
              • We can all sit here at our home computers and (sm) - My 2 cents (per line?)
              • Count me among those who agree with this poster. - sm
                • AMEN!!!!! I wonder how much money she's - making sitting around complaining? NONE!
                • Management again. SO annoying..... - My 2 cents (per line?)
                  • HA! Wrong again. - sm
              • The point is the post was a JOKE... a little humor!!! - mg
              • You surprised me! - anon
  • At least our line counts would be up for that day. nm - M.A.

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After the transition period (2006), the VHF channels (2-13) will remain available for DTV ...

...and the analog TV service will end on all channels. 

Your TV screen will go black, unless you have cable or satellite.  I did not mean there would be no more public TV, just no more 'free' TV.  You will have to have a dish or a cable modem...

In other words, beginning 2006 (which will last a few years to transition, to my understanding, and the prices are supposed to come way down for the special equipment), there will be NO MORE analog (or FREE) TV. 

This site explains more from the FTC, and it looks to me like the government has select channels etc. 

http://www.fcc.gov/oet/dtv/tvchfreq.html 

I don't need 9 accounts to have to get work. I rarely pull work from most of them because I have get enough from my primary.

It is utterly ridiculous that you find a negative thing to say about everything you read you nasty, nasty lady.

I am an 80's teen, so he's a bit before my "time", but I still absolutely LOVE him! He is so awesome. I'm jealous.

Hope you have a truly wonderful time...think about all us back home while you're there!

I don't that the responders were jealous but sharing their experiences with you and telling you that there is a chance that you may not get that raise even though you feel -- and I agree -- you probably deserve it.  But at least they stayed through your move with you and you no longer have to pick up, deliver, print, etc. and kept you at your same rate while someone in the office was doing that.  So that saves you time.

 Again I barely pay attention to the cpl that I receive.  I look more at the hourly rate that I need to make and see how that works for me.  Especially since I also do mostly clinic notes like you and have the same dictators and can make so many templates, macros, auto corrects, etc.  -- I can type 300 to 500 lines per hour.  So at 12 cpl that is good money.  I utilize hundreds of short cuts, do not do repetive typing at all.  So that is money in my pocket and I feel a raise as I am working less and making more.  The MT world is going the same way as the trucking profession did several years ago and I lived through that with my husband.   10 to 15 years ago it used to be so lucrative driving a truck and now a days you are lucky if you break even.   Look at the foreign truck drivers that cannot speak English and or read the road signs.

I still feel that it is the insurance companies that are getting rich and I know that the physicians are not getting rich from them when they receive anywhere from 60 to 75% of what they bill out, but the insurance company does not cut our rates 60 to 75% when we use their PPO's.   If you raise your rates 1 cent per line, that is about an 8.5% increase which over five years is not that much.  I did raise my rates this last year and explained to them that I had to either raise my rates or get another account and then they might not be receiving the same service that they were these past few years.  They all said "Raise them"  so I did.  All you can do is to be honest with them, do not be defensive but do be prepared that they may not like it.  I think that is what everyone was sharing was that be prepared for the worst, hope for the best and go for it.  After having some of my accounts for 5 to 18 years I still get butterflies in my stomach when I raise the rates.  But even though I have only gone up 3 cents per line in 16 years, my production has doubled so I  work less and make more. .  .Anyway that is my thinking for what it is worth. 

it's called a life!!! Woohoo!!!

I tried to use quotes around jealous, but it wouldn't let me post the message... And I don't mean jealous in the sense that you know it..... I just mean that everyone is soooo surprised and so eager to tell me that I'm so lucky and that I better not take it for granted... and that is fine.  I am wondering WHY that is the way it is.  I think it is awful for us as MT's, the career I thought I would be able to raise my family on, has gone from what it was to what it is.  For God sakes the cost of living has skyrocketed, and I have never received a raise in five years.  Now everyone would be happy to be making what I am making... however I can never imagine working for 7, 8 or 9 cents because I feel I am worth SOOOO much more than that, and I think you should ALL feel that way.  Outsourcing is a real threat, but not always.  The hospital I work for now, they tried it, and the work was crap, so re-hired my mom and I at 10 cpl.  I am maybe too optimistic but I feel like it is like VR.  There will always be errors...

I just feel awful that people are ragging on me for wanting to make more because I feel I deserve it.  I don't think a one cent raise is that awful to ask for.  I'm just trying to make ends meet as it is you know?  If they refuse it, then I deal with it.  But the fact that I spend so much time looking things up on the internet, doctor's names, new drugs, addresses... and someone expects me to work for next to nothing? 

On a side note, I get NO benefits as I am an IC.  Would someone suggest asking for benefits rather than a raise?  Insurance costs a lot even though I am young and healthy, and I don't remember the last time I put money in my IRA was.

It's just really sad.  I always thought that this would be my forever career and now at the age of 25, i must rethink about going back to school, maybe becoming a nurse, they are in high demand now aren't they?  I just wanted nothing more than to be able to be home with my kids when I have them some day.  Is that such a terrible thing?

 Best wishes to you all

When you said *Sleepless in Seattle* setting of your home - that was one of my most favorite movies - and I remembered the setting well. 

You have to not respond to the perpetrators on forum boards/bulletin boards - these are places notorious for hitting and running away with perps *thinking* they are completely anonymous.  However, thanks to the GREAT supervision of the owner/moderators at MTStars - nobody is anonymous, as they can see all (IPs/DNS/operating systems). 

My advice, Patti, is to not respond to them because, as you just said, you have nothing to prove to anybody and you appear to be humble and grateful for all the goodness in your life today.  (I'm sure you went through lots of *stuff* too in order to get to where you're at today.)  Take care, be well, and know some of us here are very supportive.

I certainly didn't, and nobody got nasty with me. In fact, it was one of the better heated discussions I've seen or been involved in. And I've been in the middle of some lulus!!! (but not here)

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