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to the job being considered on the very outer fringes of importance, and our pay going down, not up.
And reason #2 is more practical: I find it nearly impossible to fit the long word 'transcriptionist' into most spaces on forms, including tax forms, that ask for the type of work you do. So I use the shorter "transcriber".
And #3, I just never liked where the 'ist' word came from (AAMT), and that it came about at pretty much the same time as our wages, job satisfaction and respectability all took a nosedive. |
I never liked the 'ist' because it feminizes the - sound of the job, which may have contributed -sm
