It's the nationalization to be blamed

Posted By: Too old on 2007-01-05
In Reply to: Any 20+year MT's here? - bizzytypist

I used to work for a local service in a major metropolitan area that paid more than the national average. I sat pretty comfy like. Once the industry went national, then ALL companies became national, even the little local joints, unless they refuse to use far away people for some reason. Anyway, she VERY relucantly had to reduce her pay offers in order to stay competitive with the rest of the nation. If she didn't, she'd lose all her accounts to the cheaper places. As it happened, she did lose her one huge account to a cheaper place, and things were never the same for her, OR for me. I believe that's why we're making the same or less than we made 15 years ago.

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Any 20+year MT's here? - bizzytypist
- 30 years. - mtathome
- 37 years. started when i was 15. nmx - tina
- 18 years.. Can I be in the club? - luv2type
- 21 years in April :) - MOMT
- 30+ years, and similar experience to yours. (sm) - Twinkletoes
- Almost 25 years now in MT. - Typingfool
- 20 years as MT in November........wow..... - I'm old.......NM
- Started in 1972, still at it - GloLow
- 30+ years MTing - sm
- Consider radiology jobs that pay by report. - Work high volume jobs
  - This is true. Ever since I began transcribing rad..sm - Radtrans
    - oops..typo. I meant "grateful" ..nm - Radtrans
- Yes, 25 years here - all acute care. You name it, I transcribe it. - mt25
  - Oh, forgot to add my line rate - sm - mt25
- It's the nationalization to be blamed - Too old
  - more $ - AAMT?? - bizzytypist
- MT with 26 years of exp. - Experience galore!!!
  - Yeah, but you probably want more than 6-8 cpl. - deb
    - I actually DID accept a 6 cents per line - experience galore!!!
  - Ms. Galore - I hear ya! - bizzytypist
- I have been doing this for 30+ years, like the poster below, starting in 1975 sm - LTMT
  - Even 9 cpl is chicken-feed. I'm making (sm) - Flipper
  - thanks for replying! - bizzytypist
- Started in 1979 when I was 18, worked in office at MQ while it was still - Transcriptions Limited
  - I started at 19, in 1984. nm - quick typing fingers
    - Started at 20 yo in 1986 :) nm - MOMT

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