My 2 cents worth here (smile) ...

• Protecting your employability and livelihood (SM) - MT Pundit
  • Adaptability - MTH
  • Valuable post, thanks. MT plus Skills Upgrade minus Complaining = Dollars. NM - MsIndigo
  • My 2 cents worth here (smile) ... - Former MTSO
  • My turn to rant - sort of - Malki Reed
    • Bravo. Well said! nm - HolidayMT
  • Well if it's a competition, I guess - Me
  • Comments - Lillybelle
  • Pundit's rant - Mary Thomson
  • I believe clinicians prefer experienced MTs. - CalifRADMT
  • Well said.... - nowherelady
  • You sound like most MTSOs who don't - want to pay what people are worth.
    • When do physicians give feedback to MTs? - Never heard of that happening. nm
      • When you have your own accounts, they do! - But, then again, most times they trust the MT
        • But poster talking bout working through MTSO, - not own accts. nm
    • Bravo!!!! - Georgia MT
    • She's bbbaaaaaackkk. - nm
  • Agree with most of this but not all. - NM
  • a bunch of hooey, and over-generalized. - sm
    • I've lost track of how many people who've asked about it to NOT - go into MT - a sweatshop industry. n/m
  • new MTs vs. experienced MTs - never2late2learn
  • An experienced MT, I agree and disagree with you sm - Lyndia
  • Good read. Thanks for posting. - nm

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on the subject.  Found this address for him:  oreilly@foxnews.com 

I stress heavily the security aspects of having all our personal info floating around Indiastanippines.  Anyone who posted a comment under TravelinMT's newspaper article might want to send O'Reilly a variation of that.  I'm all for pouring on the heat and letting everyone possible know about this.  Sent Glenn Beck the scoop a couple of days ago:  me@glennbeck.com.

Vive le revolucion!

I started doing part-time when working at a hospital as an Admin Sec/Assistant as docs were unable to find decent transcriptionists.  Went to full-time as my hubbie was a trucker and gone a lot and started in 1989 full-time.  At first did brochures/flyers to offices, subcontracted to local companies.  Then they started coming word of mouth.   I have not added an account for 5-6 years as have had enough but recently one of my favorites passed away and so will be adding another after Chrisitmas.   Have thought about expanding more with more IC's but I really have trouble finding people that are dependable and realize that sometimes work comes first and it is my name out there.   Since I am a small MTSO I can only pay 8.5 to 9 cents per gross line but all they do is type and I print, deliver and pick up.  My oldest psych account has been with me since 1988 and my latest since 2000 so they stay with me.  Pay on time, treat me pretty well and so can't complain too much.   My last mailing, mailed out about 90 to 100 flyers and got 5 phone calls and 1 account but again that was 5 years ago. 

Some of you have to realize the cost of running and maintaining a business.  Though the doc gets $50 to $60 per office visit, more with labs, but think of their overhead in the office.  Also lots of times they only get 60 to 70% of what they bill out.  They not only have to pay me for the typing -- 35 to 40 lines,  (3-4 dollars) but the receptionist, billing clerk, nurse and themselves.  So the docs are not getting rich and I again say it is the insurance companies that put the squeeze on them and causing a lot of them to look for cheaper ways of doing things. 

To many variables -- are you married, what are your deductions, etc.  See what was held out when you were an employee and match that amount.  Your SS will be 7.5 more but some of your deductions can offset that.  Buy a copy of Turbo Tax and do a planning sheet on what you have made this past month or expect to make.  I pay very little but then I contribute a lot to my self employment pension.  How long have you been an IC -- i f just starting won't have to worry for a while.  But without knowing your entire financial picture it is hard to estimate whether it be 10 or 15 or 20%.   I pay less than 10% but that is because I have many deductions.  Look at last year taxes and see what you paid.  If that is what you are estimating on making divide that into quarters or monthly.  If married have hubbie over withhold.   Again without more info we are just guessing.   Patti

Here's a dollar.

I'm paying you in advance for the next nine accurate statements you make. 

more people get out and adopt a pet instead of just talking about it.  It is really a problem and the shooting of innocent dogs is sickening.

I just adopted one and did my part. 

One is obviously an older ESL gentleman and he always says, "Thank you kindly for typing."

The other is younger and he says, "Thanks for typing this up and have a great day."

QWERTY ergo sum...I type, therefore I misspell.

I cannot claim the credit for this, but I thought everybody could use a little humor today. 

nm

:D is a wide open smile.  :) is a regular smile.

And to the poster above it, who the heck made you the board police?  Ella can post here if she wants.

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!!