Sickest thing, I made more money my first year as MT as I do now, for working
Posted By: less hours. FIRST YEAR!!! on 2005-11-25
In Reply to: How many MTs made more per line 10 years - ago than they do now? - just curious. nm
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I made 21,000 last year working part time...
hoping when my youngest gets a bit older (she is 16 months) I can make a bit more...
Made 60K last year working 50 hours a week being paid on gross line
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You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
really? made more money as an MT?
Wow, you must have had your own accounts independently then, right? It seems with some of today's trends in the MT field, that the pay will be not as good as it was, or harder to make equal to or close to what an RN would make.
I have made SO much money doing MT,
if I were doing it over again I would have finished my degree (which I am doing now). I have been an MT for 25 years, as a hospital MT and an MTSO. The money has been very good. Being able to be home with my kids through the years was good. But in other ways being home has been bad - for one not being able to walk away from work and leave it at the office. I feel like I should always be working because there's always more money to be made. I know over the years I have thrown 100% into my business and home/family have suffered. I really think that other than being physically available for my kids, my home life was better when I worked in a hospital - because then when I was off work, I was off. I came home and started dinner and cleaned the house while it was cooking and settled in for a relaxing evening. Now I am often still working at 6 or 7 p.m., fast food dinners, house not cleaned, etc. Yes, it's POSSIBLE to organize yourself so that you take care of those things too when you work at home, but I think for a lot of us we get into a rut. I feel psychologically healthier getting out of the house, etc. Which I am doing now that I am back in college and I will never go back to just being at home full time again.
Another downside - weight gain from being sedentary!
there is still money to be made in this sm
business. But, after over 30 years as an MT, I would suggest that you PLEASE work in-house in a hospital for 2-3 years before you ever come home to work on production. The schools are not telling the students this information and they are doing their students a great disservice.
Our 16 year old son has been working for a year now to pay for his truck.
He's learning how to sand and do body work and how the engine and transmission go together. My parents didn't buy cars for my siblings and I either. I had a 20+ year old beater car until I could afford to move up to a a newer one.
I see all the nice new cars parked in the high school parking lot every day. It's nice that so many disrespectful punk kids get handed something nicer to drive than what all the teachers drive. Oh, well. Honestly, I think most of them borrow Mommy or Daddy's car or are the child of a doctor who can afford to hand them everything.
Hopefully, my kids will take better care of their cars because they bought and built them on their own. You're not going to grow up to be responsible if you don't work hard for something and expect Mommy and Daddy to bail you out all the time.
Oh, my Dad lectured us on even allowing our child to have a vehicle because Dad didn't have one until after he had worked his way through college, lettered on the football team, got straight As, lettered on the baseball team, yadda yadda. He either walked or hitched a ride. Yeah, well, times were different back then, Daddy-O. LOL At least my kid has the opportunity to work and earn his own car.
I made my best money doing ER. Granted,
I got 13 cpl. But the doctors said the same things over and over and there were I think only 6 or 7 ER doctors for that hospital. I worked 4 hours a day, 7 days a week, and made $1000 a week. Loved it!
T-chart changed all that. 
While I have made great money doing MT,
if I had it do over, no I would not go into MT. I would have finished college and gotten my degree instead. I am back in college now to get my degree, but it would have been so much better if I had done it years ago.
I agree with the MT who says after 25 years she is working harder and making less. It's the same for me. I am getting burned out after all these years, I can't type the long hours I once did, I can't see doing this for another 20 years. If the money was there like it used to be, that might be different.
made more money 15 years ago than I do now. nm.
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Is there "bad" money to be made?
Just wondering in this economy if anyone would say, "Oh no, sorry, that's bad money." Unless, of course, it's the world's oldest profession which sometimes I think pays way higher!
Actually, I made just under 56K last year...
It is only in the 40K range for the first year. 
I made $13,000 last year
working full time. Constantly out of work. I moved to a different company in September of last year as an IC QA and still had the same problem.
I made 33K last year. nm
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I made $45K last year doing rad, 9 cpl.
I make a lot more there than I do with acute care.
Gotta love it.
I made over $20,000 my first year.
I graduated early this year and I worked 30-35 hours a week and pulled in just over $20,000. I started in acute care and then switched to a clinic account which I make a lot more money on.
Wow. I only WISH I made 31K per year!
Last year I made $36,000...... BUT
I work 12 days on and 2 days off.....anywhere from 8 to 12 hours per day just to make a buck.
Oh my goodness! They should quit then - if no money is to be made.
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I did secret shopping......made some money but it
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The most & easiest money I ever made typin'
was for a hospital that had all these kickass "normals" for OP notes. The docs would say, "Please use my _____ template" and that was it. Some ortho templates were an instant 100+ lines and they took mere seconds to zap in! Those days are long gone for me but I remember them fondly.
I knew they made good money...
I used to work for Kaiser in California. I really wanted to get on with the transcription department but there was NEVER an opening. I really miss working for Kaiser. I have not been able to find a hospital like that since I left. I now live in GA. The Kaiser here is not the same -- much smaller operation here. But I knew it, I knew it!
:)
If I made $250,000 a year and had Air Force One to myself, I'd
take a lot of vacations, too.
A co-worker made this last year sm
for a Halloween office party. So cute to see a plate of mice with licorice tails and almond ears. She actually put these on a huge cookie sheet with a Rat Cake in the middle. (rat cake was covered in chocote icing-- inside was a red cake, actually quite delicious.) LOL Rats and mice. .... not too scary for that age group though.
http://starchefs.com/features/kids_cookbook/html/recipe_03.shtml
I charged by the gross line and made more money that way.
Not getting back - how much we made gross for the year. nm
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Full-time without OT. Made about 40K last year. nm
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So if someone isn't rolling in money, they have made a life choice mistake
and are living in squallor? Uh, I don't think so. If you're not an MT, why are you even here? You certainly aren't a very helpful or happy little elf.
so far no one has posted they've made 100 grand a year. nm
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I think good money is 50K a year.
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I made a whole $12K this year, granted when my daughter got cancer in March - sm
my income took a big hit as I went "on leave" from my FT job, and cut back on my PT job drastically. I did not get back to working a more normal schedule until October. I now work 2 PT jobs. So had I not had a 6 month hit in the pocket book I expect I would have made over $20K this year, not a fortune. My goal for 2006 is $24K, and as I am going to try my best to "work smart", I should be able to acheive that, staying disciplined is the key, of which I am sorely lacking. I am lucky that I don't have to live on this though, I'd be starving. As it is I have to play catch up on a lot of bills since I lost 6+ months of income, not fun.
One year and you make decent money? What is decent money to you?
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You made $90.00 in 3 hours working as a lifeguard? LOL!
Cute. What are you doing posting on this board. This isn't BayWatch, it's for MTs!!
No, they aren't. I made $10 an hour working
in-house plus measly production bonuses. I made $30-50 per hour working IC at home for a small MTSO.
made pennies working on-site-sm
but I live in an extremely rural area were the pay is generally lower across the board for any type of job. I also drove an hour each work as well, to the next town over. Around years ago the transcriptionists in my hometown were making 7.50/hour. So I am pretty proud of my 9 cpl job.
35,500 a year is darn good money to me!!!!!
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Did you watch the CMT thing on her..she really had it rough and made it
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If you could share one thing that made you more productive
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Check out same thing made by Koss. It is $19.95
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I would keep working, but put the money - sm
into a money market, or into my IRA, or anything that will earn interest. Then you can use the interest it earns for extras, such as vacations, etc. And you'll always have that windfall to fall back on should you ever lose your job, have unexpected expenses, buy a house, etc.
Even if you take the time off to see your daughter and it is unpaid, now you can afford it.
Congrats on your fabulous luck! :D
It's MTs like you who are just working for 'fun-money' that
You settle for less, and you're complacent with an MT's paltry earnings because you don't need it to survive and feed anything but your ego.
Made 11-12 cents a line working for a service in 1989
sucks
I agree, and I do the very same thing with my money. NM
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no such thing as free money
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No such thing as "good" money sm
There is money for some - is there any such thing as "bad" money? I was told by a health information "director" with high-level degrees who outsourced 12 million lines per se that we are a "dying breed - dinosaurs" who are going to be obsolete. I wanted to bite her head off. But truthfully, that's how some think of us. So if you are making "good" money, then thank your lucky stars because it may not last. Then you will have to join the ranks of those who are struggling. My past experience is that those who make "good money" don't brag about it. I'm not flaming you, I'm just asking you to have a heart and realize that you have to walk in others' shoes. Sometimes they pinch and some day you may have to wear them. So please calm down and let others speak from their hearts, not their pocketbooks. I used to do a platform in MT on career day at a local college but stopped two years ago because I told the director that I in all honesty could not encourage people to spend two years tuition on a career that may be outsourced and/or obsolete. I really meant that. Nuff said!
I think it's strictly a money thing. An
experienced QA makes more than promoting an MT and offering her peanuts. Some companies would rather save a buck than make quality a priority. Perhaps it's better to stay away from those companies anyway.
See post above about a money thing.
That's all that it is. Promoting someone inexperienced to QA for less money. I miss the days when quality mattered rather than this greedy corporate mentality that seems to rule now.
year os working...
I agree, you weren't nasty or rude. However, I just wanted to say that unlike you, I do believe places hire untrained QA and training people - as a matter of fact, I know they do. Not making any judgments on OP's situation, but just saying it is plausible.
Is it possible to make good money working for someone else?
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I did the same thing nearly a year ago. sm
I got sick of talking to Abduleebadabaabah..
"And many tank yous for calling "company name" and how is it I help yous?
I had one foreign guy figure out that I was on the east coast and he said, "You musta be happies with the snows, yes?"
It was August and 98 degrees.
I got shut down with that major company at least 5 times a week. I made sure that they knew that my biggest gripe with their company was that their tech "support" staff was not even in our country.
I've been with a reputable local company for almost 12 months. I have not been shut down once and the only time I did have to call tech support, I talked to a guy named Mike who knew that there is no snow in August. 
Just had to do the same thing this year--sm
I got a letter from the company that I was an employee due to IRS guidelines. For what ever reason they did not tax $24,000 earned in first part of year. Called IRS and they told me to fill out the form. Just heard this week that they were ruling in my favor--not only for 2005 but going back to 2002 when I began working as an IC for them. Have not heard from the company yet though.
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