What you do in your own bedroom is your business
Posted By: Don't shove our faces in it on 2006-01-17
In Reply to: You are - quite welcome!
But when you try to shove it in our faces and try to make us like it, that's another matter entirely. Keep it to yourselves and leave the rest of us out of it. It is NOT an "alternate lifestyle".
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I use an extra bedroom. Just bought a 4 bedroom house so I can have an office, for one reason.
Nice and cheery, sunny, comfortable and a room all to myself! Love my office.
Unfortunately it is legal..so yes it is business and they will continue with bad business practices
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bedroom
I'm in a 2 bedroom place with my bedroom being the biggest, rather large for an apt. I have it set up that one part is more of an office, then the bed. My supe told me never to work in the bedroom because your mind was always on work then...which I never found.
Only other choice is the living room and with the kids and TV....forget that one!
In my bedroom.
That way I can work at any time without disturbing anyone or having anyone disturb me.
Guess it's just what works best for you in terms of space and solitude.
The dog thing though, don't know what you can do about that!
I'm in my bedroom closet, too! (sm)
Didn't wanna say that cause it sounds weird, but it's big, has a window, and shelves. It's quiet and out of the way. I can close the door and forget about it when I'm not working, but can't quite remember when that is!
Wow, I really don't feel so alone now! 
My office is also our 3rd bedroom.
I wanted to be able to use it as one of my business tax deductions and we have the extra room (just husband & I).
Just this past few months, I decorated my office in a tropical theme and bought the desk of my dreams (and it was cheap!). :D I love being able to sit at my desk and look out into our front yard, see the trees, our driveway, road, etc. My office is very cheerful and since I spend SO much time in it I wanted to love "going to work" :) I feel so lucky to have my own office.
Yes, in our bedroom, large though 27 x 12 - sm
We plan to build though in about 3 years (have some property)...getting a home office then....either a separate room or a room off the bedroom, but my own space anyway. Can't wait!
In my bedroom, no fluorescents.
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I have a bedroom that is used only as my office
I just love my office. I have it painted in a soft yellow and decorated in tropical decor with a wicker chair and storage chest with a decorative bamboo room divider. I have an artificial palm tree and palm tree & mirror wall hanging, as well as an artificial plant hanging from the ceiling and a decorative shell type thing hanging from the ceiling. I have an L-shaped desk with a hutch that sits in the corner where I look to the right out a window that has a bamboo type shade on it which I keep rolled up and a nice tropical/palm tree valance on it. I have my PC, a laptop, and two printers on my desk. I am going to buy a rolling TV stand to put one printer on (that I use with my laptop) to clear off some of my desk. I absolutely love my desk and my view out my front yard. I feel so lucky. :)
Years ago I had to work in our family room with the kids and TV in our old house - not good. Now, in our new house, it is just my husband and I (and our three Shih Tzu). :) I feel as though I live in this room so wanted to love coming in here and I do. :)
I use an extra bedroom currently. We
homeschool and I also have a couple of bookshelves in my office filled with school stuff and a 3-drawer rolling cart filled with school stuff, plus another desk and printer stand in addition to mine, and a 2-drawer filing cabinet. When I am organized and have everything off the floor and clean I am very comfortable in my space, but when I have piles of books and other stuff on the floor and on the desk it isn't as pleasant a place to be.
I have worked in a BR that I had all the baby's things/toys in and that wasn't so bad because at the time I didn't have all the gadgets I have now.
I have also worked in a corner of my den and I liked being out with the family and the kitchen was right off the family room, but it is hard to work with someone watching TV and talking around you.
I am in our bedroom now, but am setting up - sm
an area in our dining room slowly. Will still work in the BR (I think) during the day; but will move out to the DR when DH wants to go to bed so my typing does not keep him up. That has been a running battle for years and finally bought a new CPU as a backup and now am loading all my programs, etc. which I don't have the time to do of course. Just need to finish doing that and get a new monitor as I am using an ancient one right now that is probably around 12 years old now, huge bugger. If I like it out there more I may work out there during the day too.
Another happy bedroom worker...
My only complaint is that my carpet is cold when I step from my bed 2 inches to my computer during my morning commute...
speaking of "working from your bedroom"
I used to hate when people would think that I worked at home doing one of those jobs you see posted on phone poles "work from home/make 2500 a month part time, etc. Even by bozo cousin had people calling me about "how to get started".........and then there were the nosey neighbors, who would get so curious as to what you did do at home to earn an income,
Finally came up with a great response that just shut them all up in their tracks....
"I love working from home, never have to worry about getting dressed and can make as much money as I want without even having to leave my bedroom depending on how much I felt like producing each day w/o getting sore muscles"...left a lot of them to wonder LOL
What I do in my bedroom, I don't think of as work, hehehe
:)
sort of, I'm in our bedroom closet.
The three other bedrooms are occupied by our kids. I used to have one of the bedrooms before daughter moved back home, but I rather like the closet, it's very quiet.
Master Bedroom--one day will have my own space though - sm
probably in 5 or so years....going to move and build on some property we have 12 miles from where we are now....so it with either be an extra bedroom or "the study" downstairs. My husband will be happier as he has trouble falling to sleep when I am working (noisy/hard keyboard).
Thanks but where did the 850 foot bedroom come into the picture?
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The phone in my bedroom does not have the ring on
my hubby with his line of work has different sleeping hours than me so the phone does not ring so he wont be bothered. Other phones in the house have the ringers on. That solves my problem.
Office in livingroom or bedroom?
Would like your opinions, advice, pros and cons on whether you have your office in a main part of the house or separate room. Right now mine is in a main part of the house, but I get constantly distracted by disabled husband, TV and dogs barking etc. If it's not my dogs barking, it is the neighbors barking (all day long!). What do the rest of you do?
I have converted a bedroom into an office. (sm)
The windows all look out into the woods so I can take a restful gaze when I want to. If the door is open it leaves me a clear shot through the living room and the front door so I can see if anyone comes in or out and I didn't hear them. My elderly mom lives with me so I don't want to be too isolated. We live in the country so dog, cat, chicken, cattle noises and a train that runs not too far from my house are all part of the natural background noise and I don't even notice them.
Have bedroom only for work place
Sit to where I can see out to the mailbox and my driveway. I have my television in here though and also husband wanted to join me so he has his computer desk right behind me. He could have had his own room but he wanted to be close to his honey. It works out really well.
I made my business your business by posting and...
I totally respect everyone's opinions. It is easier for others on the outside looking in. That's why I pushed the "post reply" button yesterday. I trust my fellow MTs and I know the more I read from you all, the more confident I am becoming. I just need that final push, not from him though. I also wanted to let you all know that the physical abuse while I was pregnant was documented by my doctor and the hospital. I only wish I had known then that it is a felony to abuse a pregnant woman. I also photographed my face from a couple of weeks ago and told several people in my circle. I had such high hopes for us. Now...not so much. I'm not saying that I won't try to get him to church, but I realize that God can only do so much for someone who isn't listening. j
Business is business. Internet forums are
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What other profession allows U to make money in ur bedroom?
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I used to work in the master bedroom and now I have my own office. I could
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I have converted a bedroom to office. Can shut
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separate bedroom makes sense
at my last 2 places that I lived I always had my office in a separate room but Iwas on 1 floor and I guess I felt more "together" that way. I am going to give my upstairs extra room a chance. At least I will have a window that sees a pretty scene small creek, tall trees. The only downfall my little dog cannot look out the window there as the windows are too high! Thanks all.
No never, I'd procrastinate if it was on. My husband comes in the bedroom at night after dinner,
and turns on the TV, the minute he leaves (generally after watching it for 5 minutes) I turn it off, otherwise it would just be on and he'd be at the other end of the house watching TV in the LR, waste of electric and distracts me to no end. But I can relate with getting motivated, I am not as devoted as I should be but plan to really get serious in the Fall when school starts up again. I had planned to buckle down this year but life did not let that happen unfortunately. For now I plan to just work late, get up early.....the kids do not allow much work during the Summer, at least not all day.....I can squeeze 2-4 hours in during the day but it can be tough. Just do the best you can.
Our third bedroom serves solely as an office. I love it! nm
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I'm in 2/2 condo. Office is half of large bedroom. Den
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I started too but home office got moved to bedroom. sm.
Now have to use earphones when husband is sleeping. I actually prefer the earphones just because my speakers weren't the best but it worked well the other way too.
I've thought about sitting in the camper or locking myself in the bedroom before,
but those wouldn't work either. I've been trying to take a nap all weekend due to lack of sleep and a nasty cold, but every five minutes, someone's pounding on the locked bedroom door and whining for Mooooommm!!!! Cripes, sometimes I can't even use the bathroom or take a shower without five or six interruptions. As much as I love them, my entire family has been driving me apestuff this past week. My office is currently in the living room with the phone, TV, video game system, stereo, front door, and most of the household foot traffic running through. That's going to change soon when we turn the old dining room into a private office with soundproof walls and a locking door. 
Nope, happy to be paid 30,000 a yr to work less than 8 hrs a day, in the comfort of my bedroom,
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I took the doors off a big walk-in closet in our bedroom and set up in there. Cozy, cute, out of
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For a business ad?! A business that deals
''Transcriptsis'' x2
''with good track record''
''serve our clients of all sizes'' (I know what they mean, but I just think the wording is funny)
''strive to achieve highest possible quality'' (once again, they never met an 'article' that they didn't hate)
''all departments including H&P...'' (or a comma, for that matter)
Is that really any of your business?
I would think that it would be very wrong of you to spread the information you found on Google while searching for the patient's name. Are you 100% certain that it is the exact same person you are transcribing? Even seemingly oddball names can be duplicated and how would you look spreading around gossip? Even if it is court-documented, it really is not your story to tell, IMO. I would love to know who is telling you to put it on the news. That is about the craziest thing I've heard in a while, although quite good for a laugh.
MT business
It depends on how large a business you want. There are still some small accounts, (10,000 to 18,000 lines) per month that are still on tape that you can get. Also the digital is not that hard but I will not pay for anyone to transfer my files, I can do that. I do not have a phone in system but if someone were to ask I would probably start out with the ones that charge so much per minute and use their system until I knew for sure the account was staying. Where are you located, have you networked with anyone in the area? Are you set up for tapes as well as digital? If you start out alone, you have no back-up, you have to do everything. When you hire I/C's sometimes they are dependable and sometimes not. You will not earn much off of them if you want to keep your accounts. You will not be able to charge as high as the larger companies nor go after the larger accounts at first. It is a fine line as to having enough help and enough work and that is why you hear the complaints all the time, "We have run out of work" as you have no control over how much or when a doctor dictates or if he takes time off. But would I give it up, probably not as the money is good to me. You can E-mail me with any specific questions, I have been doing my own small MTSO for over 20 years. Been through it all, ups, downs, good times, bad times, and everyting in between. My accounts have been with me from 6 years to 20 years so I feel that they are pretty stable.
Well I am sorry that you are using this business as sm
your excuse, but hospitals pay their people for holidays and if by chance you have to work them, they pay you time and a half.
I do not know why a business owner cannot take these things into consideration when setting up a business. This is a business just like any other business and if you have employees, those employees need to be given the same consideration as any other business. IC status is different, but I find using the nature of this business as an excuse just a little weak.
A good business head would enable you to provide benefits for your employees and if you have already made up your mind it does not, then I think probably it is because maybe you need someone else to do that figuring for you.
I am not being mean in saying these things, but even small business owners I know are able to work it out that a holiday is a holiday (whether you have to work it or not) and an employee needs to be compensated in some manner. To me, there is no excuse for not doing so.
new business
My opinion would be to let them either work at home or at the company. I prefer to work at home, but some people may not. As far the pay issue--when I started doing transcription I made .06 cpl and I think that is a fair rate. Hope I helped
This is really none of my business, and I know that,
but the more I read of your story, the more absurd it becomes to even think of staying with this man. I'm truly sorry. I know how hard it is to leave, as I had to that in my former life, and believe me I wanted my marriage to last "til death do us part," but that ain't always possible. I too TRUST in the Lord with ALL of MY HEART and SOUL, and as I said, sometimes it just ain't possible. The Lord will guide you through this. Guess it is just that as an outsider it is easier to see the forest for the trees.
Been there on business
I used to work retail management and my company had a resort there. I have been there several times to meetings and we always had some time to do things. I always enjoyed it and would like to go some day just for pleasure. There is lots to do there.
New business
I have a small transcription company that kind of fell into my lap, luckily. It has been a year now, we have five girls and are doing a really good job with one large account. I had tons of experience as a transcriptionist, but never as a business manager, so I took my time. Now I am looking to get more work. Anybody have any thoughts as to how to reel them in?
I have been in this business for
always been cherrpickers and probably always will be, just like bad drivers, you can't get away from it. I have given up and just do what comes up. Saying anything doesn't seem to help.
I would say the same - none of your business
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None of their business......sm
I am an IC for 3 companies, and pick up another prn. They just want the work done as agreed up front...none of their business how many or who else you work for.
own business
Is there anyone out there kind of enough to point me in the right direction of starting my own MT business. I have been doing a lot of research but found some outdated books online. I need to know how to write up the contract. Can I do this myself or do I need it done legally? the choice of software and line counting software. It would mean so much to me. I know a lot of you have done everything on your own, but don't I need to have a good starting point? If someone could e-mail me with some or little info, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you again.
As if anyone's business
I was on my way out the door for an appt and no, not for an interview with someone else and prior to that was working. It came about because we are not getting paid for specials on an acct that included interventionals but yet are in the pool and wanted to know what constituted a special or interventional for you all. Plain and simple to answer. With coding changes through the years things have changed. Obviously gave some pea-sized brains something to "not" think about. It is funny how so many can read something into nothing. Nice bunch that answered though. Trying to stir up a pot. Not any more. So for all of you other there that thought otherwise, oh well. You all look like fools. Tee-Hee.
as an IC you are a business
Rates are lower now than before, but as a company for yourself you need to make adjustments. If you treat this status as a job you will never be satisfied.
I hear a lot of people talking about how much they make - I would love to know where they work for that - they have to be employees. The nationals and smaller companies are not paying it most times to IC, and private clients for the most part aren't putting out 14.00 an hour to start.
This is my business, and like any business I do what I have to - work long hours, have other US MT's to back me up and take a lap top with me when I am on vacation.
Not like the manager of my grocery store goes on vacation and the store closes, or my doctor and no on-call. I am a professional business woman and work as such. I want more money and give them the quality so I get it. But I never run out of work either. Does not matter how much you make if there is no work.
Can't get more when they do not want to pay - you negotiate like any other business and if you want to work, you will.
If you want to be an employee - then you can demand the benefits, pay etc, and they can decide someone else can do the work - lets just hope that person is an American.
Either way - good luck to all - it is a challange
We have business name and tax ID #
and same companies do have a problem especially since HIPAA.... some have wanted me to become a SE and others have refused to pay me under company name - claiming I need to sign the confidentiality paperwork under my name and if I use my name and then a dba - it opens me up to being able to subcontract out my work....it has gotten much more complicated since HIPAA. In the eyes of the IRS you should have a dba and advertise and work for more than one MTSO and be independent - both for your sake and your MT company... not sure it is necessary to incorporate but that is your decision.
POV IS EVERYTHING IN THE MT BUSINESS
I empathize with all of you. The MT industry is definitely going downhill. What makes me especially angry is that it seems that the hospital HIM departments are responsible for a lot of what goes on, especially the misunderstandings between doctors and MTs. During my very short time of working at a hospital, I noted that the department manager was too chicken to actually communicate with the doctors. All she did was speak softly and flatter them whenever they would call to complain, and she would go in to that familiar rhetoric about being so sorry and having a talk with the offender, etc., etc. It made me sick to listen to it.
In a few short years, I will attain the label of geriatric. I guess I lived my life backwards. I was an RN first. I really wanted to be a psychiatric nurse, but was stuck in Med Surg. Just couldn't find the right opportunity, though I did get to work on one temporary assignment at the jail with the alcoholics and drug addicts. Then, I did word processing. Twenty years ago, I was commuting via subway and bus 2 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening, earning about $10 per hour as a word processor. I made more money then than I do now, but I also had expenses for transportation and wardrobe, and I was not paid for those 4 hours a day of commuting.
I've been an MT for almost 2 years. I went into it blindly. AS has been my pattern in life, I always believe the good reports and think that a situation is going to be wonderful; I am often disappointed. I've been waiting for my supposedly dream job, for a company that, one year ago when I took their tests and scored 97, required 2 years of experience. Now that I have 2 years of experience, I see that they are requiring 3 years of experience.
I live in a rural area. The local jobs are mostly all just a bit over minimum wage. So, I am thankful that I can work at something at home. I just could not afford to earn minimum wage, while still needing to provide gas and wardrobe, not to mention the commuting time.
I did work as an MT at a local hospital; not so local, as it is 60 miles round trip. Talk about office politics, it was awful. The manager had no clue what medical transcription was all about. She was not a very good leader, and her top priority was to make herself look good. The health insurance benefits were wonderful. But, I couldn't stand working there. Working at home is so much better in my case, in my opinion, at this time.
I feel lucky that I bought a home a few years ago and now my mortgage is a little less than the rent for a local one bedroom apartment. I realize that, if I have to work another 10 years or more, I should change professions, too. I figure that I could become a psychiatrist if I wanted to go through medical school. I guess I might try for a PHD in psychology and become a therapist or something. Unfortunately, I am now spoiled and don't want to commute to work. I know of no way to be a psychologist from home unless I move to a home that is set up for seeing patients; this one will not work for that.
I think that I am going to become a professional nutritional consultant. That way, I can be a nurse and a psychologist all at the same time, without having to stick needles into anyone. Blood tests have their place, but I am not one that ever was good at drawing blood or starting IVs. I might have to consult with someone's MD, but not all of them are bad. They can often be trained to treat you with respect. I never allowed a doctor to talk down to me when I was a practicing nurse, and I certainly will not allow it now. It makes me seeth when a doctor spells easy words for me. This morning, a doctor spelled FLATUS, as if he thought I wouldn't be able to figure that one out!!
Also, one of my pet peeves is that people take way too many prescription drugs for chronic diseases that could be corrected nutritionally. So, this is probably going to me my next profession.
I've often wondered how a person gets a audience in front of the US Congress? Do you submit a request or do you have to be invited? I think I know how to send out press releases, and I bet we could find the email addresses of major newspapers and start submitting. Remember that big report that one of the major morning shows had about how great it is to work at home as an MT? Well, I wonder if they would like to hear the rest of the story? Actually, I realize that many of their feature stories are promoted by the advertisers. So, unless some big group backs us up, it is not likely we will get that type of coverage. I guess we will have to contact some news journalist who covers stories regarding the underdogs of the world. Did anyone contact Oprah yet? I think this is not just an MT issue, but a woman's issue, since most of us are women, and as such, seem to have less respect in this country.
I usually edit my postings, but decided to just let this one go through as written. Recently, I read a story about life decisions and the theme was that, whenver we make decisions, we must be aware of how our decisions will affect the next 7 generations. I really wish that the last 7 generations would have considered that. And, as MTs and as mostly women, we must stand up for our rights to be treated with respect. Consider the impact on the next 7 generations.
Thank you for reading my message.
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