IF it is secondary income, where is the harm? As long as you work around your kids (at night, naps)
Posted By: They get to use their brain -sm on 2005-08-08
In Reply to: It always amazes me that people start - I have 5 children that go to daycare/school!
a big plus when you are around kids all day and bring in a little cash to help out the household.
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Split - first in the morning before kids get up and then the rest during baby's naps.
It helps that I can do an entire day's work in 3-4 hours.
Well, work is super busy..so not much time..no harm no foul..sm
Working 14 hours a day puts a cramp into watching the news lately, so have not seen much, nor had much time to really think about it. Did the donation through both of our work, caught a bit of news...but I cannot help anymore by sitting in front of a television, so a bit slow on the news intake here.
Isn't he normally around at night w/the kids once he's home or is he a
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The kids were awesome last night. nm
Kids used to like PB on tortilla and rolled up. Could do night before and not get soggy.
:)
Outback Steakhouse for DH & I - it's date night. Kids get...sm
Pizza Hut delivered at home.
Don Pablo's happy hour from 6-8. Only night I get out with no kids and meet with friends. NM
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Just last night I took a long document
with 3 jobs in it - figured it out with spaces and w/o spaces - both 65 character - note you said 55.... There was a 15.4% difference in pay.... I would suggest you just take a document in Word and do as I did but figure a 55 character line - Word does not have real accurate line counting program apparently - but I used the same document for all my figuring so worked for what I needed it for.
Thanks! Been a long night and drew a blank, LOL.nm
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Kids are demanding and so is MT work. My question is how CAN you do this with kids, rather than how
When you have two young kids, 11 months apart, (like I stated they are now 4 and 5) and have been doing this since they were born with no help from their father and no family around, YES, the kids get neglected. Part time might work but living on one salary, part time, is not an option. How can you possible tell me that anyone with two young kids can stay at home and work a full-time, 8-hour shift, and still give their kids the attention they NEED. I dont care how good you are at multitasking and how great your organizational skills are. It is a very difficult thing to do. And I am offended by your post making it sound as if it is easy to do.
I do agree that it can depend on how well your kids behave and how well they are able to play on their own. But my kids were not able to play well on their own. They needed constant attention.
So please take the time to realize that there are people out there in different situations than your own.
Reading our posts should help you to understand that everyone has a different situation. I believe everyone should have the right to shares their experiences as it might benefit the original poster in her questions and concerns.
I dont think anyone should be bashed for taking the time out to write about their experiences. I dont usually come on here to argue but you really ticked me off with your post. And try reading the post correctly. I said next time around I would have put them in day care. What I DID do with them was set them up to an activity like art or put on a movie for them. Geez.
What? Don't like changing adult diapers all night long?
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Long night, HELP! disk or disc herniation.nm
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My QA has 3 kids and works ALL day long!
You do what you have to do!
As long as you have someone with the kids after school and can
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work 2 jobs - see income going down -
as I still do mostly transcription but both are heavily into VR with huge pay cuts and I am so fast at typing that I will lose money big time - FT national 45,000, PT small company 13,000.
How does income tax work when you're IC?
I was offered a position from a company as an IC, and the contract had a clause about being responsible for your own tax deductions, etc. As I have only ever been an employee, I am not entirely sure how this works. If you are IC how do you pay taxes? Thanks!
74K solid year income + MT work
I saw in the Education Website a 74K package + some MT work that could get you into 90K a year after taxes. Is it worth it?
Poll: What do you consider a good income for MT work currently?
You can answer in your subject line. Talking about gross annual income:
1) $20,000 to $30,000
2) $30,000 to $40,000
3) $40,000 to $45,000
4) $45,000 to $50,000
5) $50,000 and up
6) $60,000 and up
MT work - IC or employee or MTSO, even QA work could be included here.
Ooooh, lucky you! My kids would have sniffed them out long ago :)
Nothing lasts in this house. But I've found the perfect hiding place. No self-respecting teenage boy would look in their mother's underwear drawer. 
I taught the trick to my 11-year-old daughter too and she hasn't had anything missing since.
Morning baby, morning adult. Kids born at 11:30AM (both) are night owls, however. Go figure! :) nm
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Not sure, I have deductions for federal income tax, SS tax, Medicare tax, and state income tax. ???
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naps
I have literally fallen asleep at the switch when doing transcription and it looks like this........ ;alsdkvn;owief hpoih poihvpioae and that's when I take a nap because even if I haven't gotten to that point, I find I easily make mistakes when I'm getting sleepy. I take about a half-hour power nap every day around 3:00. I turn Dr. Phil on my bedroom TV and never get to watch it!! zzzzzzzzz
NEVER any harm in asking
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I don't see the harm
I can somewhat understand in an office where you do have to brush shoulders with your co-workers. But here, in the anonymity of this board, I don't understand the harm in answering the question. You can put whatever name you want in that Name: section at the top of a reply, and calling yourself Gauche MT and responding that you make XX cents per line, average XX lines per hour, and end up making $XX for an 8 hour day is not identifiable. Everyone seems to encourage transcriptionists to stand/band together against offshoring and money hungry corporate types.
Frankly, I question the veracity of some of the tales of wages on here, anyway. Having done this for many years, I'm just a little skeptical of those people who claim to be transcribing for an acute care hospital and doing 500 lines/hour for 7 hours a day but then slow down to about 475 l/h, making 12 cents/line plus incentives, and chalks those kind of numbers up to a good Expander program.
Guess I'm just a cynic.
Have taken naps almost every day for 30 years..
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Naps doing ER reports
I was literally falling asleep at my computer with my hands on the keyboard when I did ER reports. Once I woke up and saw that I had typed the words "have fun." really strange since I am not normally a napper.
Power naps.
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No harm in asking. If you've been there a while, they might do it.
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IC sets their own hours. As long as the work is done by the deadline, you decide when to work.
What harm is it to the company for another trans to know
what accounts they have? I know what account a lot of trans work on for other companies! I am another one who doesn't see what everyone is fussing about. It's not like hearing that hospital's name is going to send another transcription company after their work - everyone already knows that they have to have transcription so it's no big secret that SOMEONE is doing it???
primary..secondary
I agree 100%. I was on a great hospital with MQ but they kept calling me to work in my secondary which is one of the worst hospitals I have ever transcribed, IMHO, over 36 years. I frankly got tired of the every day call to work in my secondary so I focused on my secondary, mastered the hard doctors and now my secondary is my primary, a hospital which most dont want to transcribe..so usually there is lots of work and bonuses too..guess **I won**, hun?
primary and secondary
If you want to have a primary and a secondary, Cornerstone has it. I am the QA supervisor and we are looking for ESL typists for a primary with one secondary. Check out the ad posted in the job section either today or yesterday.
I bet you work for Amphion. I had this blank the other night. Never did figure it out. Sorry. n
That's the problem. I work for clinic in day... MTSO at night...
The doctors where I work love my work. They have no complaints and do come in from time to time, so why am I letting this MTSO thing get to me so? I realize working in the office where I work, the scope of the transcription is not as vast as when I work for the MTSO at night, but it is still pretty intensive. I guess I'm just trying to do too much and I'm totally exhausted. Maybe time for a change, but just trying to make ends meet. Thanks again for your input!
I work Tuesday through Saturday on the night shift. sm
I really like the off shifts when no one else wants to work. I get a lot of work at those times, and I don't mind being out having fun when everyone else is at work.
I started with 310 minutes of work on Friday night- sm
talk about being tied to the computer all weekend. Have 131 minutes for Monday's work, fun, so have a busy day ahead! I was basically off the last week in December so it is nice to make up for lost wages.
Secondary, tertiary accounts
Have you tried asking for back-up accounts to work on? I think a lot of us have experienced a slower-than-usual summer this year. Even though production may be slower/lower on accounts you don't work on frequently, having secondary, tertiary or more accounts to work on helps to get through the droughts. Good luck.
Work morning, noon and night.....sort of...have always had at least 2 jobs, sometimes 3 -
in 1 basket. I just make myself a schedule for each job and try to stick to it, or work a lot early before kids get up for school, then work the 7 hours I get free during the day, then another 2-3 at night in order to do it all. Generally take 1 day off (Saturday) and 1 night off a week (Friday night usually) to try and keep sane. It can be done but it does grow old quick....been doing it for 3+ years in varying degrees of nuttiness.
If I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep, I work a few hours sm
then I go back to sleep and when I wake up do more hours. A "regular day" no way.
I love the night shift! No interruptions and more work on the system.
I agree with poster below - Power NAPs! I am a napper, need my nap about 30 minutes to 1 hour, before my shift and a pot of coffee sometimes 2 gets me through!
Work Tuesday through Sunday morning on night shift. nm
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what is the harm in telling the rate? i don't u from adam and i won't steal your job.
Training on secondary accounts. Can you refuse?
I have a great primary account. I realize I need a secondary for slow times but the secondary account blows big time. It is laborious (many fields, special requirements that are tedious, etc.). Can I say, "No, but thanks." I reach my required line count with what I have on the primary account even though I am not working a full eight hours. I have taken on a PT job and just fill in empty space by turning around and typing on the other computer when it gets slow.
Any feedback or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
It is 9 in the morning and my main is out and secondary going out from Amherst. No wonder everyone
is leaving. How can you be paid on incentive with the new pay plan and be out of work and stuck in accounts you never heard of. That has to be the most ignorant stupid thing I have ever heard of. Totally ignorant.
Familiar with primary/secondary insurance?sm
My son is currently covered under my husband's (his stepfather) policy. His father and I have talked about changing him to his insurance come open enrollment time later this year because his coverage is now much better than ours. I am considering actually leaving him on my husband's insurance too though, in the hopes that primary/secondary coverage will leave less out of pocket expenses...because it costs us no more or less with him on our policy anyway (same family rate regardless of the number of children covered).
My question is this.....if our policy has a huge deductible then pays at 80/20...and if he was also covered by his father's policy that utilizes office copays...how would that pay? Would his father's policy still not kick in and pay anything until we met the deductible on the primary policy? If so that's pointless...but I don't see the secondary insurance company wanting to pick up all the expenses that the primary won't. Anyone familiar with this situation that has any suggestions? Would be greatly appreciated...very confused. LOL Thanks!
I need to work around my kids.
I need to be able to work around my life right now. When both kids are in school full time next year, who knows what I'll do.
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I have diagnosed myself with motivation necrosis, possibly secondary to DQS. SM
I hope it's not terminal. Not old enough to retire yet. Anyone else with this sickness?
Use main pattern, secondary backup patterns when first SM
isn't enough, and then deviate by choosing the "intuitive" choice for an abbreviation that pops into my brain, on the assumption that it'll be the one that pops in when I need the expansion. Usually it is.
I've always had the drop-down list turned off on my ShortHand program, so I can't speak to working that way. A lot of people clearly like it a lot.
However, when editing rather than transcribing, I question how well one can read ahead for corrections to pop down to and scan the dropdown list too. Fast-reading ahead and even making corrections while listening to the squeaky speeded-up dictation as it trails is how to make good money editing. One needs expansions a lot less when editing, of course, but they're still extremely handy. So if you choose to keep developing a system to work directly from as much as possible, rather than coming to depend on scanning a list, I think it should pay off nicely over the long term.
OTOH, since editing does need a lot fewer expansions overall, an Editor would come to memorize all the usual ones anyway and only have to stop and look at the list now and then, never in some documents, often in others. I'm not tempted to change my routine, tho.
Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out
working the night shift and sleeping in shifts during the day. My kids are way older but that doesn't mean they don't interrupt me. Besides, there the phone issue, more interruptions, the dogs bothered me a lot, too. Love them dearly but, oh so spoiled. It was taking me 10 hours to do what I can do in 8 on nights, plus I manage to get more sleep, if you can believe that. I still get supper on the table, vacuum, laundry, etc. So far it is working pretty good, so I think I will put in for permanent night hours for awhile. No sense in working 10 when I can work 8.
I have little kids, but plan to work around them.
I have no set hours, so when they are ouside playing (they stay out for a while), or when they are sleeping I will work. It is too insane when I try to work and they AR here. They don't really understand the job needs 100% focus. But since there seems to be a wealth of work weekends, I plan to take advantage of it and get the job security and money my family needs me to have.
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