if you are directing your comments to those types of individuals....

• Newbies, ya gotta learn one thing here...sm - Frustrated MTSO
  • replies - Amanda
  • update on my newbie's response!! too funny!! sm - Frustrated MTSO
    • A stroke of luck! - sm
    • maybe her son will go to work for her too. nm - Old MT
  • It's unlikely that she would understand - Sandy
    • with my 15+ years experience, I could never be as arrogant...... - lucky2bmting
      • Are you working for a good company? - Curious
        • i work for one national, one smaller, and have one private account. - lucky2bmting
      • Geez Louise people - Sandy
        • MT education - olddog
        • if you are directing your comments to those types of individuals.... - lucky2bmting
          • THANK YOU!!! - NEWBIE
    • I don't agree with you! - NEWBIE
      • Um. What? Your message doesn't make any sense. - Sandy
      • What don't you agree with - - Misha
        • Reply - NEWBIE
          • Then you don't have what it takes to make it - Milton's Red Stapler
            • are you joking? what kind of QA is even remotely close to that post? - lucky2bmting
            • screen name - Lisa
              • Remember, that stapler was the only thing that - Milton's Red Stapler
      • I think the MTSO probably does give equal chances - Milton's Red Stapler
      • Internship - jwhitman
        • Now there's a newbie I have hope for! - Misha

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"If any company offers you a position but want you to buy equipment/software up front be very cautious." If the company is offering you a position as an independent contractor, the IRS expects you to provide your own equipment. You should also be prepared to buy your own reference books and possibly even software to access the account's system or transfer files. Sometimes services will provide that but by law they are not supposed if you are working as an IC.  I had a friend who owned a service that the IRS came after. She had mostly IC's and the IRS said they weren't IC's because they didn't fit all the IRS requirements, one of which was they should work for other employers than the service. So if she had been providing equipment for them also, she would have been sunk. You can do an internet search regarding IRS rules for independent contractors, if you feel you need to be educated on the issue.

Also "If a company offers you a position at a radiculously low rate also proceed with caution and come here and ask about them."  When I started as an MT 25  years ago, I drove 80 miles round trip to go work in house for a service. I sat on a metal folding chair in a stinky, smoke-filled room with 20 other transcriptionists, banging away on a Selectric set up on a banquet table, for $5/hour. The point is, if you really want the job, do what you have to do. Remember there are probably 100 newbies applying for every job posted on this board. A service might be willing to give you experience if you trade off on pay. After all, it's basically the same thing as "buying" experience...if you work for 3 cpl instead of 6. Some people on this board will disagree with me but all I can say is I see postings here ALL the time of people in your same position.  What I did was work for cheap to break into the field.

I have recently completed a Medical Transcription Certificate Course at a local community college (made A's in every single class including Anatomy and Physiology prior to) and even have a letter of recommendation from the Head of Centralized Transcription, which was my instructor, also.  Anyway,  I was really hoping to secure an at home/online job and, even with over 1 year of legal transcription/dictation and the 5 months of transcription classes, I'm wondering if I just wasted all that time, effort, energy, money, and memory for nothing.  Does anybody have any suggestions?  I'm tired of looking at ads, only to find out afterwards, that most at home work offers are scams and most employers on here require many years of experience and won't even give a "newbie" the time of day.

I'm getting really discouraged.  I understand the importance of experience, but there are some people who actually can catch on pretty quick without a ton of experience.