Sounds like you have the ideal situation.

• Is transcription still a hot job? - curious georgette
  • Why yes! It's very hot in India. (nm) - Well
  • If you are really feeling like this is hard work...sm - work smart not hard
    • Smart MT. Tapes or internet? SM - Lynn
    • PLEASE HELP!! - Camry
      • After 18 yrs of doing MT, here's my take. - SM
        • Sounds like you have the ideal situation. - Lynn
        • hospital work at home - curious
          • Not that many hospitals....... - SM
    • Yes, yes, yes. Go IC and sell yourself. Get out of the house sm - work smart not hard
      • You can't leave out the part where you are TIED DOWN to the work and can't take off. - That's the problem with your own accts. nm
        • Oh, for Pete's sake, just hire another MT...sm - Old MT
          • You're rude. That being said... Some people just work alone for a couple doctors and don't - "hire" anybody. Now get some manners. nm
        • Hey, there we go! Good stuff, Maynard. - Happy to see you, Honesty!!
          • Yep, it IS just one little detail, the fact that you are slave to them, but when they - take off, you're out of work. nm
            • If you can't afford to work for a company and eat, it's IC all the way. (nm) - Well
          • AMEN !! Company all the way!! nm - Sunday morning
      • To get own clients or not.... - Should I or shouldn't I?
    • work smart - - - In AWE
    • How many jobs are out there (without a college degree) that actually pay this well? NM - enuf said
      • I worked in a library for 14 years-- - Happy
      • Are you serious? Have you read this board? - sm
        • If there are MTs losing their homes and can't get presents for their kids, they aren't living - Working Hard
          • (continued) within their means! - Working Hard
        • Those people obviously do not work full time or want to - Reality Check
          • I couldn't agree with you more!!! (sm) - Yes sireee Bob
  • Subcontracting versus IC - Weighing options
    • - sandyGIRL
    • How well can I do working for a co. as sub-c? nm - Just getting back to being a Subcontractor
      • It depends on how smart and how hard you want to work. - What you make depends on you.
  • Depends what you consider to be a hot job - sm
    • 50K is the US average salary...nm - just average
  • Yes. You have to type til your fingers are smokin' to be able to make any money. nm - Fire fingers
  • What else could you do and make this kind of money? sm - ask yourself
    • Nobody makes that in this biz - nm
      • I've made in the $50s and $60s for nationals. - Busy MT'ing
        • Who are the top 2 nat'ls?? nm - Don't know much
          • MedQuist & Speris! nm - RadGuy
            • top 2 nat'ls - wary
              • Not true for me. I worked for Spheris for - Busy MT'ing
            • I guess your answer means "biggest", not necessarily best - Not buying
              • Who are the BEST and BRIGHTEST companies? nm - Gotta wear shades !!
                • Let's be happy, come on who's happy with me !!!??? (sm) - Smiling !
            • Spheris?? Curious again.. - Don't know much
              • I work for Spheris, and I'm very happy there. sm - editor
                • Thank you. I'm checking them out. (sm) - Don't know much
      • My earnings - Albert
        • get outta town! congrats! - nosynelly
        • Get OUT! Good for you Albert! Fire Fingers, eh? nm - She's a Dandy
      • big $ - texan
        • I made a whole $12K this year, granted when my daughter got cancer in March - sm - Laura E.
        • Where???? - annamt
          • I want to make that much $$$ - how????!!!!
            • She said it was LOW at 12K. I think you misunderstood her. - reader
              • making the big $$$ - see about post
                • oops - making big $$
              • We all wanna know with who !! - Curious about big$ Texan

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

as last year and the year before.  If it is Davis then you have to make a decision as to whether or not you like this.  MANY have left what could have been a great position because of her inabilty to respect the MTs enough to pay regularly.  Why others put up with it is beyond me.  Good luck.

1.  CONSISTENT workload so I'm not sitting here on-call for free one day waiting for work, then working a double shift the next day to get it all done on time.

2.  CONSISTENT QA and feedback that doesn't change from person to person or week to week.

3.  Ability to specialize and use my Expander or normals so I can crank out the lines.  (Really, why wouldn't MTSOs want people assigned to certain accounts?  Then we'd all be making $30 an hour instead of fighting three accounts all with 500 dictators and hundreds of specialties and ESLs.  TAT wouldn't be an issue if we all could focus on one area and do it well.  Yeah, yeah, I understand about staffing issues and needing well rounded MTs, but this is my fantasy.)

4.  Excellent platform so I'm not wasting time looking up patient or physician info, swapping from screen to screen, or whatever.

The rest of that stuff is a given.  I won't work for a company that cheats me or pays late.

I am soooo very anxious right now.  I have cried all morning and cannot seem to console myself or come up with a solution.  I have been doing transcription for over 12 years and have been home for the last four.  Through those four years, though I love being at home, I have come up with generally zip as far as contentment in my job goes.  I have been an employee status, as well as an independent contractor.  I have worked for places that seemed 'ideal' until 3 months or so were up, then they'd switch accounts on me (starting out on great accounts and leaving me struggling with a bunch of crud nobody in their right minds would want to do), dealing with owners or supervisors who lay out the 'heavy hand' and do nothing but tell you what you DO WRONG (one who comes to mind nearly gave me a nervous collapse--never could please her and who'd want to the way she treated you, sarcastic, mightier than thou approach).. ugh!  I have done basic four hospital transcription, clinic transcription, ER transcription, and I just am not finding 'THE BEST' place to be.  I don't know.. maybe I'm SUPER BURNED OUT.  I never make enough money, don't have benefits, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I'm just finished with this 'career.'  If I find a place where I make a decent amount of cash, I either have to put up with an idiot for a manager/ boss/ supervisor/owner or hideous dictation.  If I go to a place that seems good as far as dictation/accounts go, and the management is decent, I wind up making next to nothing in pay.  Most places I've experienced give you a come-on to begin with, give you a decent account and after two to three months, they switch you to the crap work.  Still, they give you no pay raises for even attempting to do these reports, not like they would anyway.  I think I have worked for at least six different companies since being at home in the last four years.  I am sick of making no money, not enjoying my job anymore and dealing with all the crap nobody else wants to do.  Sorry, I had to vent.. I'm ready to give up and find a job that actually PAYS in more ways than one. 

Anyone who's from Florida or has been there knows the rates for EVERYTHING go shooting through the sky come the season, which is the week before Thanksgiving through week after Easter.

Granted, the weather's beautiful in December, but you WILL pay for it if you go to Disney, make no mistake..... 

My goal is a minimum of $100 per day now.  (My old goal was $50 per day with kids home most of the time.)  I spend a lot of wasted time looking up patient and physician information, and I'd like to be more focused, too!  I tried job searching but I don't have time to do these huge long tests on top of working with the kids still home for summer.  There are some days when I just cruise through and do 200 lines without an Expander on an easy account.  I'm getting better, so I'm not going to dog myself over it.  I look back to what I was producing only six months ago, and I've improved a lot.  The Word Expander helps a lot.  I just wish I could get better and make more money in less time.  LOL  Ah, the elusive dream....

Sorry to hear that you are having a hard time.  I am in almost the exact same situation that you are in, minus the new account.  I am fortunate to be on a great account, but my 10-year-old son does feel sad that I work so much.  My work hours are nearly all during his time off (i.e., after school and on weekends).  It is definitely hard to balance time with him and work.  It doesn't help that my husband works a lot as well.  Oh, and we also have no family in the area . 

As far as advice goes, I guess the only advice I can give is to be patient with him, although you probably already are.  When I take work breaks, I try and make the time extra special.  And if he needs me while I am working, I try and respond immediately without an unhurried tone, which really helps.  If you act relaxed, they also tend to feel relaxed.  I know it's hard when you are stressed, but try and it may help.  I also emphasize how the "extra money" from mommy's job allows us to take vacations and buy little extras here and there.  He understands the concept of extra cash. 

I guess the best points to remember are:  Be patient, act relaxed, spend quality time together during your breaks, and maybe allow 10-15 minutes before bed to read a story (if you don't already).  Hope this helps a little.

I had nothing when I dumped my ex - no $$ and really not a pot to p*** in.....but I weighed out the pros and cons and my very own sanity won out.  My sanity was more important than possibly ending up homeless (which I did not end up being).  When I left I remember saying *I cannot wait to be divorced from you one year longer than we are married* - I'm away from him now TWO years longer than we were married and am SO happy I made the decision back in '91 to save myself (and my daughter) and become my/our own Hero. 

Best of luck to you...I sure know it is NOT easy.....

Stop the invites.  Get on with your own life.  One of the posters suggested getting her alone and talking to her.  Forget it.  She's either too busy or only around at holidays - she's using you because she has no where else to go.  Once you cut her off, maybe she will think twice about being too busy!  - Good luck.  This worked for me.  Now I'm too busy and much happier without the "family-users" who abuse their blood relationship and turn them into guild issues.  Too many people think just because their family they can get away with this stuff and consume you with guilt.  I suffered for many years because of family-related guilt issues.  I'm much happier now since I put my foot down -

I have a younger sister who is ONLY in touch when she wants to be invited to Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner at my house, to brag about something, or to ask a favor.  The rest of the year she tells me she is *too busy* to be in touch more when I ask her why she does not stay in touch the rest of the year.  I would like to stay in touch and even have her and her husband over for gatherings, but I really feel as if this is all one sided and wonder if I should continue to try.  Any helpful advice would be much appreciated. 

Any pt report is open reading for anyone in an office or MT pool situation.  Your report could have gone to any one of them.  She was wrong to tell you ANYTHING and should be in trouble for that, not what she didn't tell you.  I have transcribed reports on close friends, neighbors, even relatives, and I NEVER tell anyone anything.  I even try not to let people know who my clients are so they won't know I might see something they don't want me to see.  I transcribed a report on a close friend of 20 years who had a potentially fatal disease.  I kept quiet about it, and it was a year until she told anyone.  That is just part of the business.  A good MT knows to keep her mouth shut or risk loosing her job and who knows what else.  Again, I am so sorry, and you will be in my prayers.

I had been away from MT for quite a few years myself. I learned in a quick hurry I needed to get more computer literate and to get a word expander.  Not all word Expanders work well with different platforms so make sure you check what is compatible with what you will be using before investing in one.   I did not want to tie up $3000 in a two-year course online so I went to nearby community college with an MT program and just took a couple of the specific classes related to file management, transcription editing, and advanced word processing. 

There is an unpaid internship program you can apply for.  It is called AIM.  I believe it lasts about 90 days, and you get continual feedback from QA.

Good luck with your reentry.

I, along with several other employees, have filed a claim in magistrate court.  The company, which was a corporation, has now closed its offices, and are denying that they owe us our last paycheck.  We are going to court to fight it, but I am not sure what we will be able to do.  The labor board told us that since it was a corporation, and since it is now closed, that they cannot help us. 

Sounds like YOU don't have work maybe. But as my own boss, if the company using my services, paying me on production, does'nt have work and thinks I am just going to sit there staring at a blank screen making no money, they are sadly mistaken.  I would be out of that situation faster than you could click a mouse.  I am in charge of my future, my paycheck, my family's welfare.  Why would I give some lousy company control over all of that, if they had no work for me and especially, no money for me. 

First off I'd tell my mom that he's a pig and what he has done. 

Secondly I'd never be around him without a recording device turned on in my pocket so that way you can record his comments, and if he touches you or flirts then get a recording of your asking him to not touch or look at you that way and his response.  Then play the recording for your mom and other relatives.

While it may be true your mother may go into denial you need to stand up for yourself.   My mom was a fool and protected my father when she was told about his untoward advances towards women for years.... and then something happened that made her realize that she had been a fool for years and that he was the one with the problem.