6 months and still searching!
Posted By: MissaMT on 2008-12-20
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;) So, I've taken the ball into my hands, and I must say, it hasn't helped!
I've applied to numerous companies that were willing to hire a "noob" but heard nothing back from any of them.
Does anyone know of a few more I could look up?
I graduated with a 97% accuracy, so I'm not worried there. Let me know! Any help is appreciated!
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I found a job after about a month of searching
I have read the threads with so many negative comments about Softscript, but they do hire new grads.
You might find something searching for the ABC+Z system. And
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Keep searching the boards for the info you seek. And go thru an MT program if you haven't already
k
I've been searching for quality MT school- glad I found this Board
It appears that everyone can agree on M-Tec or Andrews School--by the way is that Linda Andrews and not Andrews/Holbrook?
I want to get started with training soon and I'm having difficulty deciding. I've taken both their tests and they both seem like good choices. Decisions, decisions...
Going on three months...
I am new also and just started working for an MTSO about three months ago. The first month I was only making 100 every 2 weeks, but I am now making 350 every two weeks on part time. I think when you get into two and three different MTSO or whatever, it would just get way to stressful and hectic. I would personally try and find one company that had enough work for you or another company that just needed a fill in, then together you should be able to pull of at least the &500.00 that you need.
Thanks Camry
GOING ON 4 months though..
I take too much time out to research because I want my reports to be blank free. I also feel like I just am not getting the speed I should be. I am starting to wonder if its because mine are short dictations and it is taking so much time to load each one and then do all new demographics. I have found I am faster on longer dictations.
Lets just keep on truckin!!
Good luck though!
That's exactly where I am at after 8 months.
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40K? IN 18 months?
I have been an MT for 9 years . First year made 30K. Second year 33K. Last year, my 8th, I made a whopping 36K. Full-time. Lots of normals/expanders. You definitely are NOT going to become rich in this field. If you want 40K within 2 years, you are going to have to do something else. If you can wait several years, you may be able to do 40K, if you are lucky. The pay for this field is actually going DOWN not up .
Me too, they said I could try again in 3 months.
I took my time with the test and got through the entire thing. I don't see how I was that bad. I'd like to know what my shortcomings were too. They said I could try again in three months. Good luck to all of us.
MT for 6 Months....sm
I have been working as a MT for about 6 months. I guess I am still considered a newbie. I make $.09 cpl and I am an IC and currently transcribe for 4 different CRNPs. Some days I may transcribe for 2 of them and then there are days that I only transcribe for 1. When I have 2 of them to transcribe for, I would say that I average 800 to 1000 lines for that day and it ususally takes me most of the day. If I have just 1 to transcribe for then it would be between 400 to 500 lines a day and it only takes me a few hours. Does this sound right for someone that has only been working for 6 months or should I beable to do more lines in an 8 hour period?
I began at 65 LPH. At 18 months, I am at 350.
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I've been at this for 6 months...
I'm an IC getting paid per MB of dictation, but it averages around 6 cpl. I've been trying to decide if I should stick it out until I can put 1 year of experience on my resume or get out of there. The problem I've seen is that none of the companies are paying newbies worth a toot. Right now, I have a dream of a dictator. I'm the sole MT on this account through a national. Is your work easy at least, to counter the lower pay? That's what I keep telling myself when I'm tempted to run for the hills. You never know what you'll get with another company. The work may be awful.
YES! 37 complaints against the company in 36 months.
THAT is why they changed the name and the website address.
Congratulations! I have been looking for months, but am not giving up.
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In the first 6 months of this year. I'm not new to this, though, so I moved on. nm
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did it in 9 months of about 35 or so hours a week
Worked HARD those hours too! :-)
You can collect unemployment for three months. NM
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6.5 cpl for acute care and then to 7.5 within 6 months - NM
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I think I posted this same post 3 months ago....
and today I look up drugs every so often but still NOTHING like I use to!! It does get better trust me. I have been doing this for 3 months and loving it.
It gets better. *hugs*
Worked for Spheris for 6 months.
there are better places to work for that pay much better. For the new MT, they have a great training program and mentoring, but I did not stay there longterm as the pay was very low and the benefits were awful. I only wanted to be an employee for the medical benefits, but their medical was more expensive than if I purchased it on my own. The account I was on was also horrible (mostly ESLs). I was stressed day after day trying to make my line count. Since being away from Spheris, I have never had an issue with meeting line counts and actually do 2x the amount of lines each week working 10 hours less. I don't know what it was about there, but I just couldn't get over 120 lph. I would never go back there, but I did learn a lot while I was there.
10,000+ dictation minutes in 6 months.
I went to Career Step so that is all I can compare it to. According to the eSmartMed site, Career Step has 1320 dictated minutes to transcribe (not sure if that is accurate as it has been so long since I went through the program, but it is probably close). It took me 7 months to get through Career Step doing those 1320 minutes, so I don't see how it is possible for a student to do 10,000+ in 6 months. If I had had to 10,000+, it would have taken me years to complete the course, not months.
It only took me a couple of months to get out of unpaid status!
Great to get my foot in the door!
took me 9 months to graduate from Premier Program with M-TEC
Worked at it 5 days a week, just like a job.
What are their expectations of an MT with 4 months of experience?? What company?
Geez
We only hire a New Graduate with 8 months experience or more
We no longer hire new graduates right out of an MT program. We recently did away with our Apprenticeship Training Program and only hire new graduates with 8 months or more of MT experience.
A frriend who was there ran out of work all the time (within the last 3 months) & the techs screw
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Career Step only give you a year, so at M-TEC you have 18 months and will learn a LOT more.
Your post made it sound like you would rather take more time to do the course, but there's a reason M-Tec requires it done in 18 months.
You can't really learn if you drag it out longer than 18 months. You have to keep doing it, working at it, familiarizing yourself with it, in order to learn it. That is why they push you to not drag your feet, either do it or don't do it!
Good luck to you.
Accustat Carolinas pays some 2 after they work for free for six months...just crazy.nm
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so you've been MT'ing for 6 months and I've been at it for 25 years but I don't know
what I'm talking about...that's a good one. The purpose of this board is for experienced MT's to give information to new MT's. One of the developments in this field is its recent downturn. We have a responsibility to be upfront with what we see, know and any conclusions we might draw. With less than 1 year of experience in the field, I hardly think you're in a position to give an educated answer regarding things like job markets, global influences and technological challenges. But then again, people like to only listen to things they like to hear...so have at it!
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