I take pride in what I do, but....
Posted By: goincrazyquick on 2009-01-09
In Reply to: Job pride - MT
I no longer see this as a rewarding career. I make less now than I did 10 years ago, thanks to voice editing and outsourcing, this job does not pay me what I used to make 10 years ago, and I only had 3 years experience back then. So, for me, while I take pride in producing quality reports (98.5% was the lowest I ever got on quality control, EVER), I do not feel this "career" will last me until I retire. I love the personal benefits, and I love that up until this point it allowed me to be a stay at home mom to my son, while supporting myself and my son (single mom), but that pay is so low that I can't afford much. I'm much faster actually transcribing than editing, yet more and more reports are edited and so its harder and harder for me to make the money I once made so easily. It saddens me to see how little respect this career yields, yet I still hold pride in producing reports to the best quality. I unfortunately would not recommend this career to anyone new, and I myself am looking into going back to school next Fall to start another career. As long as this job holds out until I finish school, my son and I will be fine. While I still love my job, it just doesn't pay well, everyone I've tried to hire through pays what I was offered 10 years ago starting at a company, and that's sad to not have a raise in 10 years and to have to work harder to get less pay, so for my son and myself, being a single parent, it just does not pay what we need with more and more demands and less and less pay.
However, until my last day I will always work hard at producing the best quality report because I do take pride in my work. I always will.
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