I have 13 years' worth here and sm

• Question for the experienced - Polly
  • been doing MT for a long time!! - oldie
  • Hated my first year - pumpernickel
  • Not to be a buzzkill or anything, but why on - earth would anybody NOW get into this business?
    • You said it!! Exactly my feelings! ...sm - blondie_1147
  • Been in this biz a long, long time, 30+ years and....sm - JJ
    • Agree... - Cindy M
  • I have been doing this for 16+ years and... - Amanda
  • I have 13 years' worth here and sm - Trying to encourage you
  • easier yes, but a job - sm
  • No Fun at All - Terylyn
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  • Yes, I do feel this way... - MtMommyof2
  • going on my 17th year of it and feeling good about things sm - Lorie
  • That depends... - GothMT
  • Well I have only been at it for 1-1/2 years...sm - blondie_1147
  • No responses ... a bad sign? - Polly
    • Would be more fun, if more money and better dictators.sm - WISE1
    • You are not wrong - Long-time MT(NY)
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I think, though, that one reason is this. I worked for 15 years on a hospital platform that had NO spellcheck, NO NOTHING. I had to learn to proof as I went along. It gave me the terrible habit of backspacing when I make an error - something I've not yet learned how to avoid - I'd really like to type and have the spellchecker catch the errors because I think I'd be more productive, but it's turned into kind of like a facial tic, something involuntary!

I would never relisten to anything - unless it's something that gave me trouble while I was doing it - and when that happens, I leave blanks, go back to the first and listen.

To do business at this rate, the hospital would have to be contracting the jobs themselve.  Most hospitals I am aware of, go through a service, which has overhead.  So to that 7 cents you have to add pay for management, building, utilites and all the other costs of doing business.  The services I work for charge anywhere from 11 to 13 cpl, so it really isn't any cheaper to go through a service or have your own accts from the hospital point of view.

In my opinion, it would be better to wait for something that pays a little more.  At 6 cpl you are going to work your butt off.  I mean, if you think about it that's what the people in India are getting paid, either 5.5 cpl or 6 cpl.  I think American MTs are worth more, much more, but that's just my opinion.  If your current job is not too, too bad where you can't wait it out, I would say look around and give it a little more time.  Gook luck!!

Hi everyone. Been reading your postings and thought you could help. I presently work in a clinic but have been mulling the idea of working from home. Would it be reasonable to assume I could make at least $9.00 an hour working from home (realizing I would get paid by cpl) Should I quit my job and go for it?

Thanks

I used to do what you do....I felt like I had a lot to offer, never had a problem getting a job that paid a good wage, great insurance, great vacation.

I got into MT as a fluke and for the 1st 5 years I made a ton of money and worked at home.  Along the way, I became less desirable as an administrative assistant--had been out of the field for too long, I think. 

When the MT pay started going down and I found I had to work 12-14 hours a day to make less than what I was making in the beginning, I really have tried to get an admin. asst. job again, but I am losing the job to people who have been employed right along the way while I was here at home.

Stay with this job--ride it out.  You are likely to have to work 12 hours a day or more to get your lines in and keep your benefits if you come home to work.

I posted a message yesterday on the New MT board.  I haven't seen a response.  Can anyone give me advice?

I am disabled and need to train in a new profession.  After some reading and researching, I wonder if I should learn MT.

With so many jobs going to India, Philipines, etc is there really work (and I mean work that will pay me enough money to more than survive) in the US?

With Dragon, is it easier for non English speaking persons to transcribe?  I am really nervous.  I can't waste time and money learning something that is no longer offered here.Is it worth it?

I apologize for the redundancy.  I am new to posting, and this is my third try.

Hi - I have been a Transcriptionist for 9 years and have considered testing to be a CMT but I want to know if it really matters?  I'd welcome any opinions either way. 

Thanks!

Can one really make a living working for this company???  Is the pay worth while?? Are the benefits there???     

I am a single mother of one and am thinking about going into MT, but with all the downsizing that is going on do you think it is worth it?  I've seen a lot of posts lately about veteran MTs being worried about their jobs.  I don't expect to get rich, but right now i'm umemployed and have been making a living selling on ebay.  I would like a career with more consistency and benefits.

Thanks for any input!!

Kelly

You might want to consider working in-house for a year or so to start out.  It gives you an opportunity to have a "mentor" and get a real feel for how things really work.  In-house also provides better pay and better benefits usually, though not always. 

Working at home is great.  You get to stay in your PJs and save on gas, eating out, etc.  There's none of the cattiness you get in an office setting.  It also requires a lot of discipline.  You have to get used to the solitude and not being able to run to someone for help with something.  It's just you and your computer. 

In the end, I'm not sure if I had it to do all over again that I would pick this field.  It works for me now b/c I don't want to have to start all over again, so I make it work.  But given the chance to go back in time, I think I would have chosen something more along the lines of a physician's assistant or medical administration.  But that's just me.   

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I don't charge extra for using my call-in system.  I absorb the cost of the phone line myself. I figure it's the cost of doing buisness,  For example, I wouldn't have gotten one of my clients if I didn't have the system.  He has no Internet connection (yeah, hard to believe!) and it was too far for me to drive to get tapes.  So, I figure it's worth it for me.  What I make off of him alone pays for the phone line.  Plus, the phone line is a deduction at the end of the year on your taxes. 

If you have these corrected reports available with conflicting QA corrections and being given a date that you must be off QA, I would via telephone speak not to a QA person, but the owner, team leader, some higher up and get some clarification regarding this. If you need to call 10 times I would do that.

I have years and years of experience and once fell into a company that would sent me corrected reports, One would say don't put the word The before a CT scan at the beginning of a sentence,, one would say put the word The before CT scan when starting a sentence, and one would say to transcribe The comuterized tomography scan, and things such as this. I spent a day on the telephone finally with some higher up. I will say the situation kept continuing, It was extremely frustrating to say the least,  and I left and took a different job, but I had a lot of experience so it was not a big problem for me to move on.

I agree with some of the posters here, try to straighten this out, but start putting out your resume in the meantime too.  There are companies that have these type of practices, I know as I ran into one, but in the main, most do not.