IMHO, helping humanity is along the lines of teaching, volunteering, nursing, working with

• Any MT in it for recognition and helping humanity only? - Or in it for money. No I love helping ppl but more
  • I'm in it because it's all I know how to do. How did (sm) - Helping Humanity - NOT!
  • What's behind door #3? - justmetypin
    • I hear ya! - Rad MT
  • IMHO, helping humanity is along the lines of teaching, volunteering, nursing, working with - Hospice, etc. This is a job. nm
    • This is the kind of attitude - that makes people depressed about their jobs.
      • I KNEW someone would post this type of hooie. Just - want to know, money or do gooder rewards?? OP
        • What is wrong with both? - What made you so cynical?
          • Working for offshore owned companies and feeling - like a tool, same as a computer, not a human. nm
            • Then you need a new job. - They are out there, you just have to search.
              • I do have a 2nd job with US owned co. that I love. Foreign - co. has a few redeeming qualities so will stay for
                • Don't stay too long. - Nearly had a nervous breakdown staying with the wr
  • Only because I need to work and this is all I know - sm
  • Money only. - Hayseed
    • Hayseed, you crack me up! I LOVE your posts & your humor! - Helping Humanity - NOT!
  • Not for recognition - MT
    • Unfortunately, it mostly benefits those who pay us squat. nm - Helping Humanity - NOT!
  • anyone who does not have to work to survive - - should be helping humanity - no message
    • from each according to his ability, to each according to his need? - oldMT
  • In transcription for recognition and helping humanity? - Msla MT
  • ppl but in it more for money. Pick one or the other. - nm
    • Money for me. - nm
      • In it to lesson annoying contact with the management species. - Helping Humanity - NOT!
        • That is definitely one of the ancillary benefits - Rad MT
        • I MEAN *lessen* - arthritic fingers let me down.... - Helping Humanity - NOT!

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I'd check with a college counselor/advisor on programs they have for women over 30 to return to academia and enter new careers.  Then I'd ask to take some career tests to see what your interests are and what you'd be be suited for.  Also, there is scholarship money available for women over 30.  Ask about it.  

Since I've already raised my kids, I'd also like to state that jr. high and high school are the years our kids need us at home the most.  Those are the years they can get into the most trouble if left to themselves.  If he's already 9, why not just enter college part-time to finish in about 6 to 7 years?  But definitely go talk to a college counselor.

QA gets the pits because the good ones aren't hard.  I've never done QA, but I know the reports with blanks I do have are from really awful ESLs or Americans.  I think I'm pretty good with ESLs, but some of it is just flat mush.  And of course there are those folks who don't really care about what they're putting out, figuring QA will cover their butts.  You're going to get the dregs just by nature of your job.

As far as going back to MT, if you love it, do it.  Life is short, why hate your job?  It's a big part of your life.  I work for MQ and I'm doing fine, contrary to all the nay-sayers out there.  I'd say research companies or look locally, because it's not all as bad as you might hear.  I've worked in offices, as an IC, and now as an employee at a national.  Good situations are out there, just do your research, and take all the complaining with a grain of salt.  Complainers are usually the loudest people on the boards, it's human nature.  Email me if you want to chat more.  Best of luck!

Okay, with an hourly rate you can do some figuring.  I believe that, even though one would typically have more experience doing QA, they do not necessarily make more money on a per hour basis because their line per hour rate is much lower than the MT rate to make up for the greater number of lines done when editing.  I think QA is primarily a bonus in that you don't have to do all that physical typing.  I think MT and QA makes about the same amount per hour in general.  Assuming this, then you can figure out where you are pretty much. 

If you type 160 lines per hour at 0.08 cpl, then you are making $12.80 per hour.  I don't know for sure, but that sounds like a pretty average number of lines per hour and line rate for many MTs out there, so what you are making sounds pretty average, IMO. 

If you want to challenge yourself, however, you can do better.  I can do almost 200 lines per hour and make 0.09 cpl, so that's about $18 per hour.  That's as an independent contractor working at home through an MTSO, not an employee, and not as an IC on my own accounts (make much more on those with no MTSO middleman).  Even if you stayed with the 0.08 cpl and upped your lines by 20 an hour to 180, OR if you went to 0.09 cpl and stayed at 160 lines per hour, you get a raise to $14.40 per hour. 

Hope this helps!

I have this to say to that person

1.  Its stealing from your fellow teammates.  You are awarding yourself 4 hours of their shift and their work because you're too lazy or too incompetent to get your speed up.  They have bills to pay just like you do, and are sitting there out of work because YOU stole it.  Especially if THEY are honest and only work approved OT.

2.  Its lying to your employer and yourself as to how efficient you are, when you are falsifying your time card.  It is also putting them in jeopardy with the labor board, should you both get caught.

3.  Its bragging to post this - bragging that you are lazy and incompetent, and like to steal work, so you think you're smart and slick to have found a way around hard work and better skills.  Shame on you!

Thank GOD where I work the ONLY way you can type a job is if you are punched IN to the time clock.  So I know you're not my coworker.  I pity those that are.

MT Word Seeker is definitely better IMHO.  The search results are more to the point, perhaps because it searches 1100 medical / MT websites. 

MS Word's AutoCorrect.  I bought is and asked for help in transfering my AutoCorrect entries to it.  The owner kindly answered she would do it FOR me . . . for an additional fee of $25!!!!  Being as I had just paid $189 for it, I thought that was terrible!  Her instructions for doing the transfer do not work.  I honestly think it is just a ploy to make more money.

I finally did the transfer myself, after numerous tries.  Now I don't even use it.  Since it isn't anything "special," it isn't worth the trouble.  I much prefer IT to SpeedType.  In fact, ANYTHING other than SpeedType is better, in my opinion.