Which route?

Posted By: Siren on 2007-06-11
In Reply to: You're RIGHT ON. (And a day's pay - doesn't even fill my gas tank!

Which route are we going to take? We all need to be sending letters and such to the same media, so there is a big impact. If only a few of us complain to one or two media outlets, the impact will not be felt.

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A challenge to all MT's....sm - dinosaur
- Please ignore the grammar police - I do! They take away from (sm) - dinosaur
  - Good post. I was starting to wonder if possibly - sm - My 2 cents (per line?)
    - You both are very wrong in your assumptions - NOT the grammar police
      - Eubonics is offensive. - sm
        Again, that was someone else, not me - NOT the grammar police
        Ironically..... - NOT the grammar police
- I'll send out letters - letterwriter
  - Thank you, thank you! - anon
  - "The pen is mightier than the sword" - My 2 cents (a line?)
- You would be better of just going to work and not spending so much time tilting at windmills. - nm
  - That mindset is why all us MT's is po' !!! :( - My 2 cents (per line?)
  - That's what I was thinking too. - nm
- Not to be negative but . . . - Violet
  - ? How does MT work translate into *Paris Hilton*? - My 2 cents (per line?)
- We need to get a consensus here of as many MT's... - dinosaur
  - If you don't know grammar, you have no business - being an MT,
    - Get over yourself, Grammar Police - sheesh! - Notta Nazi
      - Oh so very wrong you are - NOT the grammar police
        Business is business. Internet forums are - playtime.
        I agree w/you. BUT, in your 1st sentence...sm - Ali
        Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth sm - NOT the grammar police
        Huh? With all due respect, I think you are... sm - Ali
        Perhaps you are not aware sm - NOT the grammar police
        How interesting! Thank you. nm - Ali
        I see I spelled *grammar* wrong in my post above. *sigh* - Ali
  - I'll write it..I am a professional freelance writer as well as an MT - mg
    - Where can I get freelance work? NM - Elsie
- Is there some way to emphasize the HIPAA discrepancy? sm - searching
  - Maybe searching internet and newspaper archives - sm - My 2 cents (per line?)
  - I am going to look into their specific wording on this today - mg
- Has anyone worked for different companies - mt3
  - yes, me for one - Janine
- I thought offshoring WAS illegal!!! - susancarol
  - It is against California Privacy Laws, and the patient can sue from what I read. - paintyper
- I'm IN!... - susancarol
- Not the grammar police BUT - your post needs some serious editing
  - Oh, get OVER it. This is an online forum, - for chrissake.
    - To quote the original poster - hundreds of thousands of WELL-WRITTEN and WELL EDI
      - That was hundreds of thousands of WELL-WRITTEN and WELL EDITED letters - nm
        There's a time and a place for everything, and - My 2 cents (per line?)
- You're RIGHT ON. (And a day's pay - doesn't even fill my gas tank!
  - Which route? - Siren
    - count me in! why doesn't someone set up like a yahoogroups - sm - LMT
    - It doesn't have to start out at the top - sm - More ideas welcome! :)
      - Count me in! - MTOhio
        Here are some people who might at least LOOK - at the MT situation.

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I don't go that route-my pvt MDs....sm

My private MDs, well one of them knows me for 25 years, almost like family (and there's 2 in that office I work for), and the others know me well too. There's an old computer expression, KISS - keep it simple sweetie! I keep it extremely simple for the billing end of things and I always get paid within 10 days of submitting the monthly bill. I figure if it isn't broken, don't fix it. *lol*

Best of luck!!

I basically tell them I know nothing about that route (sm)
Like you I was an MT for 7 years or so before I ever had kids. And even then I did not have the chance to work at home, nor would I have wanted to, actually. IMO with our work, the choice, if you have high-need babies like mine, is either (a) ignore the kid and work or (b) work when they're sleeping. Which means I don't get to sleep like, at all, because I had babies who did not sleep much.

I would, and have, done what you did the drugstore clerk. You can't tell some people anything.

I personally have told people who asked me, "I wouldn't. You won't make enough money for the aggravation." I've also told them, "If that was your plan, you should have started 5 years ago so you had all that under your belt before you had kids." Depends on the circumstance and how hateful I'm feeling that day. (blush)

A more expensive route...
is Best Buy. I called inquiring about a new computer and they all have Vista. But, they said for 130 bucks, you can have Windows XP installed. I was lucky that my son was willing to let me have his computer with XP as he had bought a new one a while back. Good luck.

I did fine until Hubby went the SE route.
He hates paying taxes and the broker he works for doesn't want to give the going rate that they should get just so he can keep the guys working. He's looking around now, but with all the highway funds going to mass transportation instead of road building, there's not much out there.

Plus he bought another truck and our last tax man took the depreciation route instead of the lease payments. What'dya gonna do in a small town.LOL

Call your local paper and see if they have a route

available in your area. You have to be an early riser and work 7 days a week though. I used to get up at 6:00 to walk. Now I get up at 5:00, walk for one hour every morning with only 65 newspapers, and I make an extra $70 to $80 a week for 7 hours a week.

My sister does 250 papers by car (roadside tubes) and she makes $1000 a month. It takes her 3 hours a day though and she has a full time job, so I think that's a bit much.

Seriously though, papers don't hire kids anymore to deliver because kids just can't or don't want to do it. Besides, who wants their 13-year-old out walking the streets at 5:00 a.m. ?.

No boss, good exercise, good money.

Seahawks lost. I always route for the underdog

Congrats to the Steeler fans.

I went that route initially and lost 60 days

and ended up listing my house with a regular real estate agent. In my post below about the soft market, I also mentioned not to go with a for sale by owner agent. Help-U-Sell and Assist-2-Sell are what I'm talking about. Yeah, the list on the MLS and yeah they give you a lock box but that's about it. With a bulldog real estate agent and company they will go the extra mile for you. That's what my agent did for me and my house is sold. We close on October 9th.

Regarding the lock box, your better agencies have them now that will email your agent when someone comes in a shows your house. It's a good way for your agent to followup. For sale by owner agents don't do that.

Be careful about these flat fee agents, because you get what you pay for.

Good luck!

Anyone with experience with small claims court in NJ??? I guess I am going to have to go that route
to try and get money that is owed me and to complicate things I don't live in that State. If anyone has any info to offer I would greatly appreciate it. I know times have been tough for some of us but after 9+ years I can't believe it has come to this. Thanks in advance for any help or words of wisdom you can offer.

I just go paper route as I find TT a pain in the butt and it takes me longer actually - sm
plus they flag our return every year anyway (4 years running) so I am not wasting my time and money on it. My refund takes 4-8 weeks depending on their inventive reasons to hold our refund, but it always comes through eventually, last year it only took 1 month total. So I am hoping this year to get the same, need to get off my but and it it as we have $1400 coming back. TT is supposed to be reliable, and guaranteed, as long as all the info. you put is is correct and you can back it up, go for it, you already spent the money on the software you might as well use it.