That kind of money is what has sent work overseas, IMO.
Posted By: nm on 2005-12-19
In Reply to: Quick question or poll - What does one consider "good money" for weekly bring home income? sm - ExpMT
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ProScript Documentation Services does not send work overseas or employ any overseas MTs. (nm)
The AAMT went overseas because they smelled the money there..sm
they said, MT in the US is dying, but look at this new untapped money field in India! They and all the transcription equipment suppliers. Heck you can sell an awful lot of entry level equipment to newbies over there. So they ditched our interests and went for the $. Shouldn't even be called the AAMT.
that is what gets me, how do companies figure they save money overseas...
they pay you 4 cpl to edit a report, and probably the other person 4 or 5 cpl, that is already as much as they pay one American MT. I realize our MTs also use QA and editing, but on average, they must be losing money this way.
maybe the key is to refuse to edit them. what would they do with that? they could not possibly send reports out without us 'doctoring' them up.
we should just not edit them.
I do think editing the VR should be something we will all end up doing.
shouldn't we have some organization to help us make sure we make at least as much as we do now, though. you are only making 4 cpl, who comes up with that figure, and when did that become the standard? who decided that, what is their reasoning, and why do we have to accept it?
we need help here, especially with all the changes coming. what a disappointment the only organization that probably could have helped us (AAMT) has decided instead to become like any other corporation, just make money, period.
we need a VOICE, a single united VOICE...
we should be putting our heads together to try and do something to save our jobs.
Oh, yeah! And they spend a lot of money in our country, unlike overseas entities.
We've always got Canadian tourists coming through town. They even drive here for medical care because they don't like their own medical care system. It's a give and take thing with Canadians. They're not undercutting and putting us out of work.
I have that kind of money and I'm an MT.
No big deal.
This is not a poor career unless you're not good at it.
What else could you do and make this kind of money? sm
If you still make great money in it, at least 50K per year, as I do, then it is still hot. if not, it is not hot.
kind of like folks who have money sm
don't talk about it but the ones who want you to think they do talk about it all the time! Sounds like a low self-esteem problem to me too!
If you are already making that kind of money
and working less hours then I don't know why you would want to change to an unknown. BTW, would you care to share who you are working for now making over 50K and 6 hours a day? Pls e-mail me privately if you like. I won't post it, I promise!
Money is worthless in that kind of disaster.
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Well, KIND of. If you mean "do I really have to spend money on SM
an expander, the answer is no, you don't really have to - but you'll work a lot better if you do. It's worth $99 (for example) and it pays for itself.
Autocorrect fills up and wreaks all kinds of havoc when it does. Autotext doesn't fill up (that I know of).
Yes, you need an expander. They're capable of much more than just stretching an abbreviation into a phrase.
How ridiculous! Does ANYONE have that kind of money to blow? If I
PLENTY of other things to do with it! Pay bills, go on vacation, put it in savings, pay my kids college tuition.
I didn't see any kind of request for money ????
Did we take the same survey????
I really admire people that can make that kind of money
but knowing the hours she must work, and the days she must put in (probably all week plus the weekend), that's just not for me. Money isn't everything and I'd rather make my $40,000 and have my weekends free and work my 8 hours, five days a week and be done. Again, this is just me. Now if I could make that money working normal hours, I'd be happy. (I can dream can't I?)
yeap, hoochies looking to hook their claws into a guy with any kind of money.
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You gals seriously make this kind of money? I am losing my job at the hospital
and thought I would never find a job that will pay that kind of money and its 14.50. I thought that was good!!!!! So you are telling me if I worked my tail off being an IC I could make more?? Break it down for me? How many hours a pay period, how many lines, how many cents per line?
I was actually regretting losing this job, but may be it is an opportunity.
yes, when all that overseas work comes back
after it becomes illegal to outsource work with our personal information. I am hoping that day comes soon.  
Is it possible some of the account work is going overseas. MQ does offshore you know.
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No, what's sent work overseas is cheap schools that don't teach SM
properly, churning out hoards of MTs who will undercut the good ones and then turn out terrible work.
No, corporate greed is what sends work overseas.
The only reason offshoring is alive is because our fellow Americans are too cheap to pay a living wage. They want their companies to show a greater profit and stock to go up.
I am an excellent MT. However, I can't make squat for money in this field because every single company I get on with sticks me with their lousiest accounts. I've learned seven new accounts in the past month between a small MTSO and a national. That's how it works. You do your best, QA scores reflect it, and they give you their garbage that nobody else will do.
overseas work (Saudi Arabia, Dubai)
A long long time ago, in a place far away, when I was a CMT, I used to get advertisements contracting for jobs at King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia as well as a hospital in Dubai. I just wondered if this was still going on. Maybe they just contracted everything to India (haha). Does anyone know about this?
To Administrators: LawScribe, one of your advertises sends all work Overseas! sm
Thought you'd want to know. I contacted them and was told they do not hire anyone local in the USA, and only hire overseas. How interesting? Since you don't support overseas coming and taking our jobs, I thought you'd be interested in knowing this, or maybe you already know?
Have a great day!
I will never work for another company that supports offshoring to overseas countries
As posted above, I have worked for a foreign company. The company had some US MTs working for them and IMO, they were using us to cover up. I think we should personally stick together and stop the nonsense of our US reports going overseas. I do have one question for those who support the Indian companies and any company that offshore overseas...where is your medical information going? Have you thought for one minute that maybe your own SSN and address, etc, might be going overseas?
If I work for a co. that mainly has VA hospitals, can you tell me what kind of work to expect. sm
Has been a long time since I have been an IC,so I forget what to expect from VA accounts. Will you enlighten me?
I kind of thought this fit with all the posts about low work, no work.
MTs complaining they are not finding jobs, or if they are the pay is extremely low. Seems to be a lot of posting mostly about no work...
I was kind of curious where all the work has been going, much more so than the usual slow times...
what kind of company and where do you work
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When things dry up in MT, what kind of work will you do?
I am finishing my studies to be a teacher and it should be pretty good money and rewarding, but standing in front of people *blech*.
I'm trying to get over my stage fright. Any suggestions for stage fright?
What kind of clinic work are you needing help with??
I have a few specialties under my belt and could use an IC job as I quit my in-house job. I also have a C-phone. Thanks.
It depends on what kind of work you're doing..sm...
If you're doing clinic work, you would need the book that pertains to your clinic. I'd also recommend a Stedman's Abbreviations, acronyms & symbols. I'd also recommend Sander's Pharmaceutical Book. Other than that, I'd use Google and trustworthy websites.
aerobics? If I want to work up that kind of sweat I'll go
delve into the pile of laundry in the basement. :)
That way I don't have to deal with other sweaty people. Eeeeuw.
Yes we are out of work but did you ever stop to think what kind of people they are hiring to flood
the accounts. I happen to know they AINT good and the blanks keep rolling in and are passed on to the hospitals because Amherst QA does not fill them in for whatever reason. Probably too stupid to understand the hard STUFF. I do QA and I know this is true.
i think anywhere from 14 to 20 an hour depending on hours worked, kind of work, etc.
nm
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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Money with no work
Sit down and analyze the situation and you'll figure it out. I know where you're coming from and I've done that.
Hard 2 make money with no work.
didnt work so owed no money
it is bigger equipment and expensive. AND they never worked so I did not owe them any money. Some were so "anxious" to work that I spent a small fortune sending it overnight so they could "get started" because they really needed to work. I want to believe in the best of people, but it is getting harder and harder.
Does anyone else earn extra money at home doing something along with MT work?
I need some ideas. Fall is coming and I will have some extra time and getting burned out on MT.
Yes because i will be spending money i don't have and won't earn anything with work decreasing
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Depending on who you work for.... you can make good money
I usually average between $15-25 an hour doing VR. That is enough for me. I think it helps if you have companies that pay for footers, headers, spaces etc.. Good luck.
I understand... But I will not lose money by doing free work because she chooses to bill (sm)
will a method that requires me to give away free work. I will politely explain my position when we have our meeting. If push comes to shove, I will tell her that I will switch to her method of line counting, but I will need 9 cpl rather than 8 cpl. If she won't do it, I will give my notice.
Thanks for the input! I appreciate your time!
oil field pers a "per diem" which is a set amt of money they get to show up for work that day,
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My dad owns a dental lab - GOOD money, steady work, very tedious though
nm
7 cpl gross and counts blank lines, IC status-- make a ton of money because it's easy work...nm
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Make money? I'm not making any money because of my decision. You read my reasoning
You can agree with me or not, but don't make false assumptions please.
You're working to make money, not to spend money.
These people should be ashamed of themselves taking advantage of people this way!
I also blew some money signing up with Quixtar... The only way to make any money is to bug everyone
you know into signing up. I felt like a snake oil huckster. I hated it. I was flushing money down the toilet from the moment I handed over my money.
RUN, do not walk away! I do an entirely different side business now that I really love (in addition to my MTing, which I also love!) Find something you're good at and that you truly love doing. Then make a business out of it. That's the best way to have a side business. Selling discount toilet paper through Amway/Quixtar? Not so much.
The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
Yeah, money, that's it. I paid $20.00 for my dog. Money is NOT THE ISSUE
walk him daily, play ball daily, he sleeps in my office daily while I work. Yeah, I got a lot of money, NOT HARDLY. And, my dog is HORRIBLY HORRIBLY ABUSED because he wears a collar around his neck. It's people like you that make me sick. I am done defending my use of the shock collar. I am going to continue with it and my dog will continue to be pampered , educated, fed, kept warm, and love me for everything that I do for him even when I remind him that his barking needs to stop. So, with that said, I will not respond to any more of your CRAP in reference to the shock collar.
Also, they could be done overseas..
I proofed Indian work a few years ago and they sound like similar reports--blanks, everything wrong.
For everyone's info, the clinic in town that outsourced to India still dislikes the quality intensely, after all these years, but still uses them because they are cheaper. Go figure.
overseas
The doc that I work for now used to use a service and paid 9cpl.
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We could do this, but then we'd have a small choice of credit cards, cell phone providers, computers, toilet paper, paper towels, food in general, entertainment such as cable and internet providers, clothing, tires, and I could go on and on, but what would be the point? The simple fact of the matter is that this is widespread and there's no turning back on it now. Even in our industry we have plenty of overseas working alongside of us. The way I see it, these people have families to feed as well and want to make a living for them as well. I've worked with U.S. companies that employ both American and Overseas MTs and I have to say that they are more than willing to put in the time and effort to get it right. They are also willing to take English classes to do better. I just think it's time that we end this whole caste system everyone wants to push on the MT world. There is plenty of work to go around, instead of pushing them to the side, why don't we include them and help them become better at this job?
overseas
May I ask what company this is? I would like to work overseas as well.
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