No way, in New York or CA you can't live on $11.50 an hour.
Posted By: MT on 2009-03-23
In Reply to: Pay issues. - Frustrated
I understand your message and get what you are saying; however, it is literally impossible to live on $11.50 an hour in those two states, and probably a few others. You can't even get a 1 bedroom studio apartment for less than $1500 a month, not including utilities, then food, clothing, and other bills. Sorry, can't do it.
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I LIVE IN NEW YORK, BUT...SM
right now work as a ful-time employee status. Do I understand your post to mean that I, as a New York resident, cannot work as IC if I chose to? Thx.
Not every one can live off $11.50 an hour
I am not one here that complains about my wage as I do very well with MT, but I would be looking for a new job if I was only making $11.50 an hour. Consider yourself lucky that you have what you have making that wage. There is no way I could do it. We pay over $1100 a month for a 600 sq. ft. 1-bedroom condo for 3 of us. We pay another $250 a month for electricity. Once you factor in the higher cost of food and gas that we have to pay because everything has to be shipped 3,000 miles, there is no way I could live off $11.50. We only have 1 car and rarely go out to eat or spend money on extravagances. I recently had to buy clothes because I was still wearing my maternity clothes from 2 years ago that had too many holes in them. So we are not splurging. The only people in my area of the country that live off $11.50 an hour are working 2-3 jobs to survive. So just because you can live in your area of the country on what you make, don't judge others say we need to reevaluate our lifestyles. I don't think it is a bad thing to just want to get paid a decent wage for our job. For what its worth, Wal-Mart here pays their door greets more than you are making as an MT. Does that seem right?
$45 plus tip. Takes about 1/2 hour. Live in Central FL. nm
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I think I misstated it - the at home people live within an hour of the hospital - sm
this is what the hospital is absolutely positively trying to avoid - having people all over the country doing the job. If the equipment breaks, if there are meetings, etc. - these cannot be done with transcriptionists all of the country.
You must live in a metro area because rural areas pay even less per hour.
Of course you can buy a big house for 130,000 in a smaller town and the same amount won't buy you a pot to pee in, in a place like San Diego or the D.C. area. It's all relative.
New York City, New York
York, PA here. Hi to the both of you!
New Rochelle, New York......NM
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Upstate New York
I have finished my MT course and I am waiting for my results, hopefully this week. I live near Glens Falls, New York, and was wondering if there was anyone here who was from my area. I would love to hear from anyone in the vicinity. Elsie
My New York relatives used to rag on me:
and say when I visited, "She's from Massatoothetts where they thay 'Pahk the cah in Havaad Yaad.' " (Note: My relatives have no teeth, hence the lisp.)
Cue the banjo's.
anyone from York, PA area? sm
i am looking for info on an OB/GYN named, Rosean Freundel. i can't find her on any of the MD websites. anyone have any contact info on her? she delivered my SIL's baby and she needs to request her records. she delivered at York Hospital about 2 years ago.
Amherst is near Buffalo New York
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Stephanie from PA: I've been to York sm
to the H-D assembly plant a few years ago. Loved the area there and the proud people working for H-D. So sad to see the demise of the jobs in the PA steel mills and the loss of jobs in the American auto industry to foreign manufacturers. Very sad, indeed. I come from a manufacturing area, now virtually ghost towns with just service jobs left.
Johnson City, New York
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York, PA too! small world (nm)
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There's the liberal New York Times for ya.......
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Sent It to New York Times and Associated Press
Send this or your own letter. Let us know if anyone gets a response.
Hi Ella! I'm from New York City
I grew up in NYC.. multicultural, diverse, many different neighborhoods. I love NYC . Rude New Yorkers are a stereotype. All kinds of people here. Visit it sometime.
Love your posts, though... ths is an MT board - active, retired, former, and anyone who's thinking about becoming one.
Does anyone know anything about the Greenwood Lake area of New York?
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I'm in upstate New York, haven't had a problem. Mine is hvc. Where are you?
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Just curious: I RESIDE IN NEW YORK and you in a little village in the Midwest, right?...nm
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Depends on the pay and account. My lowest average is $15.52 an hour (roughly 182.6 lines an hour) w
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why no, i don't live in snobville. did you think you knew me? i live in heritage hills a suburb
it takes a little longer to get to work and shopping but thank god i have some privacy and am away from the congestion. lovely trees and lakes all around. maybe about 20 minutes to a large shopping mall. but no, i don't even know where snobville is.
1850 lines per 8 hour shift. 15.00 hour - no real requirement
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weird..if you look up the profiles, the "guy from Iowa" is from New York..wonder if he origina
came from Iowa? I don't think Guy will win..thats too easy. It better NOT be that snotty Carissa..that is one show I'd NEVER watch. I like the "Iowa" guy.
Gee, wish all these newyorkers would meet on the New York State board. It gets lonely up here.
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if it is feasable, split that 6-hour shift into two 3-hour shifts. sm
i work a split shift and find that i am much better able to stay focused and get more work done that way. also, being 3 months pregnant you have gone through the very tiring time of pregnancy and you should start seeing an energy perk before long.
Pasted info from their website. York Hospital is part of Wellspan.
York Hospital |
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1001 South George Street
P.O. Box 15198
York, PA 17405-7198 |
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Main number: (717) 851-2345
Registration/Admissions: (717) 851-2231
Billing Inquiry: (717) 851-2102
Care Line: (717) 851-2273 |
why yes the quality of air where i live is quite different than where the city people live.
Lots of pollution. That's why everyone is moving away from the city and areas zoned for multiple housing units and low income housing and trailer parks. Population is dense and near manufacturing. So yes, the air is different but millions of people pay a little extra for the quality, the space and privacy afforded to those who move out of polluted crowded areas such as you defend. There is always a reason why some areas and housing is cheaper than others. Maybe it is the air and maybe it's something you can't quite put your finger on but you know you would prefer not to live in certain areas. You know what I mean or are you living in one of those areas? They tell after awhile you block out the sounds, the smells and get used to the pollution. I don't know. I didn't stay long enough to test the theory. My mental and physical health is way too important to me.
I know they live a long time, so if there is a chance they will out live you - sm
make sure you make provisions for them in your will. I have only had cockatiels and some finches, so don't really know anything about the bigger birds. I love African Grey's but they are very expensive.
I start an hour or 2 early and then take an hour or 2 for dinner -nm
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At 200 lines a day for 6 cents, you are making $1.20 a day or 0.15 hour for an 8 hour day!!!--cm
Did you mean 2,000? Even then you would only be making $1.50 if you work 8 hours a day.
$32/hour? You said $36/hour on an earlier post. Either way would be great. n/m
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Live and let live. Don't force your lifestyle on me.
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I used to live in MN now I live in MS and they were both cold last night!
Will take MS cold over MN cold any day, and I don't miss the snow. I miss the Mall of America, though!
I live in PA, can I help? If they are close to where I live, I would go check them out for ya!
Where in PA is this company?
10 reports/hour or 25 markers/hour
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okay, york hospital said they had delivery records, but no prenatal records. sm
they had no idea who she practiced with or anything like that and of course SIL doesn't know any name other than Freundel. i am also a midwife besides being an MT and in order for me to take her given her bicornuate uterus, i have to have her records. i guess delivery records is better than nothing, LOL, but i have to have her prenatal records. i wonder if there is a clinic there or something that med students rotate through. i couldn't even find ms. freundel on AMA, but she may not be through with her training yet either and that is probably why.
I appreciate your responses. I had an option of line vs hour ($14/hour) but if line pays more...nm
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You must live where I live. I ran into the same sort of SM
situation when I was the president-elect of the local chapter and the VP-elect of the state chapter. I bailed out. There was no fighting it.
LOL! Don't live in NH. Live in ConnectiTAX. LOL NM
NM
Can you live on 7.75 cpl or do you need 9.5 cpl. If I could live at the lower, that is what I
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65 to 75 an hour comes to $15 an hour if u are fast
nm
Each state has different laws. Where I live, if I have clients in the same state I live in, yes I ne
have clients from another state, no I do not need a license. Every state is different. I checked with my attorney and the State Business offices.
I don't. It's not available where I live (sm
I go to my mom's and flip through and don't miss it at all. All of her stations and hardly anything on to watch.
OMG - how do you live without TV?....I'd die
without my sports! Football season is here, college all day Saturday, NFL all day Sunday, and Monday Night. As well as NHL is back. I would die without my TV.
Not to mention 24 hours on Monday night, Boston Legal on Tuesday night, ER on Thursday night, Law & Order and CSI other nights, as well as my HBO and Max for movies.
Don't know how you do it, but bless you!
Where do you live?
I'm tired of it, too. I would love to be able to go outside without getting heatstroke! My animals are in the house all the time, too. Too hot for them to be outside. 
Or go live over there with them
:)
Maybe you could go live in NO
nm
You only live once....
No, sorry for you! Wise up and have some fun - you live only once you know!
Actually where I live...
Its on at 11 a.m. - still 2 darn early for me (night shifter)....but yeah, that show can be addicting.
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