What exactly do you consider *decent* money, (sm)
Posted By: One man's dollar is another man's penny. on 2007-06-11
In Reply to: I have a flexible schedule, I make decent money, better - why I stay
and what part of the country do you live/work in? What's "decent" pay in rural Kentucky or Iowa is food-stamp time in Los Angeles, Portland, San Diego or New York, just to name a few.
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One year and you make decent money? What is decent money to you?
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Decent money is out there
Most of you know me from this board and I just want to share this with you guys. One of my gals that I met through a nephew's baseball team -- he and her son played together and we go to the same church. She had two terms of medical terminology/some transcription underneath her belt, many years in the law field as a paralegal, etc. She wanted to work at home, make some extra money, etc. I took her in and started her on my psych accounts and the onto some IM accounts. She got the psych accounts quite well but had trouble with the IM. We butted heads several times over scheduling, etc. She did not understand the 24 TAT and so on. But we perservered together. She finally got a job in an attorney's office part-time doing some medical review, etc. and quit me. On good terms. Then last November I helped her land a GYN account that we started off together and I just handed off to her as it was not worth my while to drive 25 miles for what dictation was there. It was my business name and years in experience that landed the job. She took it over and tonight she informed me that she is so glad that I kept at her and perservered with her as she is now making $42 to $45 an hour typing for them. She is like me charges only .12 cpl but because of auto corrects, macro's and shortcuts that I helped her with, she is making good money. If fact in Sept when they add another doctor she is going to quit her legal job completely because she makes more with this account with less hours or if she keeps the legal job she is going to do what I did and mentor and help someone else break into the field. Again these are tape accounts, with pick up and delivery and the little accounts no one else wants but they provide us with a good living. Again, I don't look at the cpl but at my hourly rate and that is what keeps me happpy. She just wanted to thank me for helping her out and I am really happy for her. Yea we spoil our accounts but they reciprocate with decent money. So for those that want your own accounts, keep at it, takes time and patience but you can get there. I had most profitable year ever this year and less hours.
decent money
Better than I would make at a 40 hour week clerical job in my area. Much better. I don't have benefits, but I don't need them because my husband has great benefits with his job. I DO get quarterly bonuses though that are more than my yearly bonus at my previous office job. No, I won't get rich doing this. And yes, I put in a lot of hours. I work hard. I research. I have invested in good reference materials. And I love my job.
They also do not pay mentors decent money
so no one I know would never work for them. Companies like that do not need to be around.
I am, but not because of pay. I make decent money, more than I would
make in most fields today that don't require a degree or experience. I'm just burned out with the monotony of it. Type, type, type and then type some more because the account is behind and others aren't pulling their weight, so type, type, type, go to bed without spending time with family, exhausted, kitchen not cleaned up, and get up the next day and do the same thing all over again. You have no control over your paycheck because you are paid by production. If you have one of those days where you get the worst dictators or the sound quality is really bad you don't make your lines. If you don't feel well you don't make your lines.
I've done this nearly 20 years, about 19 more than I ever thought I would, but I'm tired, I don't enjoy my job, and I want to do something different. My problem is that I need to be home 5 more years and I don't know what I can do and make the money I need to make.
I make decent money at my
I just feel like a cog in a machine, unappreciated, unnoticed. I work for a hospital. I have also felt this way working for large services. I would like to feel that my time and services are valuable and appreciated, but I just don't seem to feel that way.
I would be 43 and have no life at this time and wish I was making decent money, but not ;0( ...NM
NM
Decent money won't be there until you've had years of practice. Maybe do
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I have a flexible schedule, I make decent money, better
than I could make working in an office, even though I haven't had a raise in 5 years and not likely to get one anytime soon. I homeschool my children, we don't have a 9 to 5 lifestyle, DH doesn't have a 9 to 5 job and it allows him a 3 day weekend so we like to travel. I am able to work anywhere I can get internet access so we can pickup and go at a moments notice w/o me having to worry about work.
I hate office politics. I don't have to spend $$ on clothes as I work in jeans or sweats, or can stay in my jammies all day. We only have 1 car and that works for us now, but wouldn't if I worked outside the home.
Life is just less stressful not having to get my kids up at 6:00 a.m. to get ready so they can catch the bus by 7:00. My DC would be getting home at 4:00 or later if they were in school and by the time they did homework and we had dinner it would be time to prepare for bed and we wouldn't have much family time. By homeschooling my DC have been able to explore their passions, have really developed a love of learning and we have developed a wonderful family bond. We spend hours every week talking about world events, relationships, etc. My DC are my #1 reason for working at home. When they have left the nest I may consider working outside the home, or at least exploring other work-at-home options.
All I want for Christmas is a decent job, a decent job, a decent job.
One that's not 95% ESLs, steady workload, steady accounts, good communication, office staff who aren't rude buckpassers, decent line rate, no offshoring, direct deposit, flexible schedule, not having to do 50+ 30-second reports per day, and a platform conducive to speed. I know it's not possible, but a girl can dream, can't she? This is, after all, my Christmas wish list. I never get what I want for Christmas. Why is that too much to ask for? It doesn't even matter anyways. After Christmas, I QUIT MT!!!! Burger King is just down the street, and they give food discounts.
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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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.
Decent MT job
Good luck in finding one any more. I have checked on several and they are all as bad as or even worse than MQ. That's why for the time being, I am staying with them. Everybody wants us to work for peanuts nowadays, thinks we can just jump from one account to another with 100% QA, understanding totally strange doctors who don't speak English, etc. The people in charge don't have a clue just how difficult this job really is. I wish I could retire!
Money is money and most people will do whatever it takes when in need. sm
if you do bring it to the attn of the office manager, why not offer her a raise to compensate. it is obvious she just needs or wants more money than your office is paying her. I agree, it is a free country and although it seems odd, unless you had it outlined in contract, she can work for whomever or whereever she pleases on the side. at least she is typing and not at a strip joint, lol. I see no conflict of interest, she has experience obviously in whichever field you are in and what is wrong with doing extra in that field. i agree with MYOB "nicely" and concentrate on your reports than looking at older reports and seeing who they are typed by.
I was responding actually to DECENT MT
...rather than EXCELLENT MT.
:)
Nice attide, though.
I don't know companies that charge 18 to 20 CPL!!! The most I've heard of is 13. Who charges 18-20 CPL, please? And who are they sleeping with??? :)
I lie... I forgot that in mentioning sleeping with..... There was a surgical group whose director's wife started a service and charged her husband and his partners 18 CPL.
They now offshore to India, however.
Where is there a decent company???
I would like to know exactly WHERE to apply to a decent company that is not the same as or worse than MQ? I have checked into several and they all leave a lot to be desired. I have lots of experience, have 99% QA reports, and would like to be paid for it. I have not found anybody who is willing to pay me any more than I am making at MQ, plus they have a lot of rules about strict schedules, etc. that were a lot worse than MQ. I would love to quit MQ, but where is there a better place???? Let's hear some POSITIVE answers for a change----.
How does asking someone which companies are decent
equate into having them do your resume and work for you? That's a stretch. Word of mouth is all we have here because the people doing the hiring are naturally going to make their company sound like the best one out there.
Personally, I am sick and tired of searching for a decent MT job. I've been looking for over month now with no luck. It's not for lack of experience or effort. I'm not unqualified or a lousy worker either. I get really tired of being put on the most difficult accounts right off the bat or being bounced from one account to another for coverage. I want a decent platform that doesn't require you to jump to four different places just to find the header demographics information. Time is money. It's gotten to the point that I don't even know what I want any more. Everyone wants full-time, odd shifts, Tu-Sa, or a C-phone. I've seriously been thinking about going back to selling stuff on ebay because I'm so frustrated. I give up.
That would be the decent thing to do
deleting posts where it is mentioned. It seems very juvenile and shady for them to just delete the posts without any sort of response. If you take a stance on something, you should be willing to truly stand behind your decision. They are acting like they are ashamed of the position they have decided to take on this matter.
That's a decent salary.
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Then, I would say 9 cpl to 10 cpl would be a decent offer.
Go for it! 
in bed, and have a husband with a decent job
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No decent MTs just excuse to keep pay low. Pay
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I had some decent Americans,
some decent nurses, and then started getting probably the worst dictator on my account. Is 15 blanks a problem? :o}
Is a decent MT job too much to ask for these days!?!?!?
is it too much to ask for a decent job as an MT anymore? i am so fed up with the big services and how they take you for granted, ignore your requests for help, clunky, time-consuming, line-stealing platforms that i could just scream! (please excuse my lack of punctuation and any type-o's, this is a forum and i just really don't care right now!!!)
i am so sick of sitting at my computer all day long to only get out 500 lines a day and it's not my lack of committment, lack of focus, or any of the like....it's the out-dated, stupid "platforms" we are expected to type in and now they are even setting it up where we're typing in little boxes and not hitting return to go from section to section, i'm sure in an effort to reduce payable characters.
I am just at my wits end. i have been applying for jobs that are not in the field of MT for the last two years and cannot get any replies to jobs besides "work at home" scams and the like.
ANYONE ELSE FEEL ME OUT THERE????
Try 80% ESL with the other 20% on ASR; any decent doctor is on ASR at 1/2 the pay....nm
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What are you talking about when you say decent?
Would be hard to say, according to what you are used to making. What have you come up with in your calculations?
It's pretty decent
Especially if your account is a tough one with ESLs, etc. 150 lph is nothing to sneeze at. As to getting faster, it's all about your expanders. If you have the same doctors at all, create templates as much as possible for them. Save their phrases, etc. If you type headings for reports, save the headings with the formatting, etc as a macro so you just have to hit one or two keys to bring it up. If templates, don't work, then really concentrate on your regular typing expanders. Any multi word phrase that you use more than once needs to have an Expander or an abbreviation. Any word that is longer than four characters has an abbreviation for me - or at least I'm working towards that. Really work on getting to the point where you don't type any word out in full. That's the hard part. Sometimes it seems like it's faster to just type and not figure out what the expansion is for that word, but it pays off in the long run. The other thing that helps me is to put mistakes in that I routinely type, i.e., teh = the, taht = that. I have found that doing that has made a huge difference - I'm not stopping to correct those automatically any more. Pretty much any typo goes into the library with the correct word attached.
You'll get there. Good luck.
Neither...just a lucky girl with a decent job for once...sm
Have only been at this for about a year now and have found that most of these companies SUCK!!! They dont care about you, they use you and then get rid of you, and they are the rudest group of people I have ever been around...Not one of THEM are you???? Sounds like it.
DECENT BENEFITS/PTO/HOLIDAYPAY
what company are you with that you would get paid downtime, paid pto/vacation/holidays AND decent insurance, need to know that company's name please
You are a decent woman, and that was well written.
I do also think that the moderator needs to ban the person who has been so inflammatory here so many times, particularly on the subject of motherhood. There's no need for responses such as hers to be allowed when we all just want a forum to chat and, hopefully, be supportive to each other. I'm off to watch Lost now, my one great indulgence :)
You can't be a decent MT without the right schooling! I don't care what you say.
Why would any decent MT waste their time with MQ
Don't be fooled by their latest spins. If it didn't benefit them, they wouldn't be doing it. The only ones with a good deal at MQ are the suits. They should be eating some of the slop they feed MTs.
How long to make decent $$$??
This may seem like a stupid question to all of you "veterans" out there, but how long until a "newbie" can expect to make a decent wage in this business? I have only been employed for about 5 mos, so I am trying to cut myself some slack, but minimum wage is hard to swallow. I do reports from a pool of doctors so I can't seem to utilize the full benefits of expanders, and on my best day, I can type about 110-125 lph. Again, I know I just started, but I can't keep making this kind of wage forever. Are there tricks I am missing? Any insight would really be appreciated!! Thanks in advance!!
How many jobs do we take until we might be treated decent
I am on my third in a year
MediSpell is decent and only costs around
It was about $10-$20 when I first got it, but I'm sure it's gone up since then. There's a free trial (or at least there was) and you can compare it to others. Not sure what Dorland's is like so I can't tell you comparison, but I've found MediSpell to be a decent medical spellchecker at a reasonable price for starting out. You can add to it, of course, too, but I don't think they ever issue updates like new drug names, tec. so you might want to invest in a more thorough one later on.
VR decent but long way to go before replaces MT
I was present at a demo of Dictaphone's/Nuance Enterprise and HDI's VR systems. While both were fairly decent, Enterprise even took on one motormouth Ortho at about 50% accuracy, we were told the systems would never replace live people. The hospital I work for is now looking at Enterprise in the next fiscal budget.
Spheris has dialup and are decent enough
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Good MTs won't work for 7-8 cpl. Pay decent $
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I think decent retirement is possible from an in-house job
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for good MTs. If they would pay decent rates,
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Fair pay? Decent benefits? Wow, you really
nm
That's the only way to make a decent wage --
Where can I get a good resume at a decent price??
Anyone used a company with good results that didn't charge an arm and a leg???
I've given up on a decent line count. SM
I'm just waiting to be let go and hope I can get unemployment. I don't know how people get a decent line count on DQS.
Would rather see granny with decent figure in shorts
that some of these young people with their fat bulging out on all sides of their clothes and tattooes on every part of their body.
You are right though..you have to search hard to get decent rates...sm
It IS a shame you have to work multiple accounts to make a decent living. Persistence does pay off though. You can look and look for those jobs offering higher lines...suddently, as soon as you find one and start you will hear on a few more. I just take them all, figure out time and lines needed and set scheduled accordingly so I can balance them all so I am never out of work.
Out of curiosity, how soon do you think they should be able to accomplish a decent amount?
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