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If you consider an 80-hour pay period (which I don't do), at $27 per hour with the 800-number company, you'd make $2160.

At $33/hour, paying $1.80/hour, you'd make $2640 minus $144 (a deductible expense also), still netting you $2496 -- substantially more than the company giving you the toll free number and less pay.

Makes no difference to me.  I personally wish you all would stay away from MDI-MD so I could have more work ... LOL

and expecting extremely experienced MTs, forget it. You're not going to get it.  If, however, you're willing to pay 9 or more cpl then you will find what you're looking for. There ARE experienced MTs out there who will work their fingers to the bone IF they are compensated well and treated with respect.

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. 

state board out of curiousity and there are very few.  Does New York have a shortage of transcriptionists??? 

Just curious - if there are NY'ers - where in NY do you live? 

Are there are any CURRENT Breitner MTs out there?  Would like to talk. Please reply.  Thanks.

My theory is that the majority of MTs working today are in their 40s or 50s and are female.

Am I correct? We shall see....

company.  They haven't laid down a lot of the rules in writing, or even verbally, but several other MTs have told me how it is.   They are very strict and I got fussed out because I didn't respond to an IM immediately.  I'm still on probation for another 2 weeks and I'm curious if I'm doing what they except of me (my QA scores are great so I know I'm doing quality work) and they have nothing to say to me, or they are waiting until probation is over and then will lay everything on the line.

I think maybe most companies seem strict at first because they want you to understand you can't have 24 hour TAT.  Some companies allow a long TAT, most don't.  I know a lot of MTs who work for spending money and aren't interested in FT work, yet they take FT positions and then don't work a required schedule. 

I also think that if you produce a minimun line requirement, produce a good product, aren't constantly taking time off, etc. that the company will cut you some slack.   Good reliable MTs are scarce these days. 

I read a lot of bad about SoftScript on here, but all of it was 2 or 3 years old. I'm wondering if anybody has any current information about the company they'd be willing to share. I've been talking to them about a job doing editing work and am curious to know if their reputation has improved at all. Thanks.

edition and the CD that comes with it is an outdated spellchecker and not the dictionary on CD-ROM.  The Stedman's one is just the CD and they are always more than the book.  The have more detailed info on the CD.  I have an older version of the book and I think I've used it 2 times in 10 years.   When I update my Stedman's now I buy the CD and I might use it more if I had it on CD versus the book, though with their CDs now you can only install it twice.  They also have the book, but it is about $50.  

Check the classified board here and check half.com.  You can most likely find it cheaper at either place. 

Cover story:  Are MTs Paid Fairly.  This story needs rebuttals.  (I don't know if I spelled that right -- too mad to look it up.)  There is another article about MTing as well as some good letters to the editor.  No, I didn't write them.  Not promoting self.

Look, this magazine wants feedback.  Controversy creates publicity which creates readership.  Please think about sending your own letters to the editor.  Write what you write here.  Let more people involved in our field know your thoughts whether they be MTs or not. 

No, I don't work for ADVANCE.  I'm just an MT just like most of you.  I just want our voices to be heard by more people who call the shots that affect us.  This is one venue.  Even if you don't like the publication, fight back and make your voices heard!!!  What a lot of you write here would be fantastic letters to the Editor which would reach a wider spectrum of our associates than this forum for MTs.  We've got to keep the topic of the MT situation HOT in the media.  You can submit articles to them as well.  Get busy, PLEASE!!

I know that a lot of you guys are anti-CBay because they outsource but I've got to go where the money is instead of sitting here posting on forums while I wait for some work to come in.  My question is....Anyone currently working for Cbay as QA? I've done my interview and tests and the pay/benefits are very alluring.  I'm tired of MT work and want to move up/on without having to work 12 hours a day. I've read all the other posts "hating" on them but is there anyone out there that has had a positive experience??? Aside from sending work overseas, how are they really?

Because the clients don't want to go by the BOS rules.  Therefore I am not going to bust a gut to memorize BOS rules if I'll just get scolded for using them because they go against account specifics!  My employer tells me an account is VERBATIM - but I have to use BOS rules.  OK, it can't be both - many clients are either not aware of or not interested in BOS rules.

In this industry they want us to know EVERYTHING, ALL the time, yet treat us and pay us like trained monkeys.  So go ahead and stuff the newbie's heads full of BOS rules, hire those newbies, then tell them to scrap the rules.  Makes sense - why?For each client you have new rules or just flat verbatim.  Just let us concentrate on our account specifics - please!