Now I get it...
Posted By: madnewMT on 2008-06-25
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Okay so I have only been an MT for two months now, after going to school for a year, but this really, really ticked me off.
A friend of mine called me today about an "MT seminar" that was going on in my area that she had heard about. I already have a job that I enjoy, although I don't make a whole lot, but I decided to call and check it out to see what it was about. I figured it may be a good way to network and learn something. I guess I thought it was like a career fair or something. Well I call and I get this guy on the phone and ask him what exactly the seminar was, and he says "well what do you think about working from home?" to which I reply "well, I already do, I am already an MT." he gets kind of quiet, and then says "oh, well this seminar is for people who want to work at home and make up to $2,000 a week by typing medical reports. All you have to do is sign up for our" yada yada ya. To which I calmly replied "you know, thanks to companies like you, you have now turned a decent profession into a get rich quick scheme. It is companies like you that make it so hard for us that went to college for this to get a decent pay!" I also told him that I wasn't mad at him in particular because he was just trying to make a living, but that I highly suggested he think about where he works and what he was doing to those of us who are trying to make a living doing something we love, not just because we get to work from home. He did apologize, and I hope he passes it on to his boss or that they hear it on the "recording for quality control".
This upsets me to no degree. Why is there not a standard for MTs? Why is it that joe blow off the street can get a job doing this if they are lucky enough to pass a test? I mean I've passed some pretty hard tests in my day without studying (pre-calc, yuck!) just by getting lucky. I understand that most of the population thinks that we just "listen and type" but it is so much more than this. I got into transcription because I love the medical field but I'm not much of a hands on person.
I know this has been talked about before, dragged out, and talked about again, but is there really nothing we can do? Are we really doomed to make less than the fry cook at Mcdonalds? I think this is an honorable and much needed profession, but it seems no one else sees it that way. I have tried to be optimistic about it, but I think MTs are a dying breed and I have hoped in for the last leg of the ride.
I wish we could do something. I just don't even know where to start!
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