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When I was first switched to EditScript (the part of eScription's 3-part program MT's work on), I built up speed as I learned editing on it. The official staged adjustments in line counts were made as the computer learned the dictators, but as I continued to improve I was making good money at it, a bit better than transcribing. Then inexplicably I started making less and less, as did others I spoke with. My income continued to drop, even as all counts and rates seemed to remain the same as they were reported to us. I tend to be a trusting sort and prone to look first at myself for explanations of problems, and took me some while to recognize and admit that irregularities in my own production just didn't explain the long-term trend in significantly smaller paychecks.
My employer undoubtedly had some pressure to try to make things hold together with the hospital I was assigned to because my main account started shifting offshore, not that we were told why we kept running out of work more and more until it reached critical point and they absolutely had to.
The lies that came with that last are why I went looking for a better employer, but on scanning the EditScript forum and the web, I found indications that people with other eScription-contracted accounts and companies were having similar experiences, both having trouble making the money they had before and with accounts moving offshore, so I went looking for a job with a company that was not involved with eScription, even though EditScript is a wonderful program, my favorite of all the platforms I've worked on.
My personal experience was in early 2007. Now that eScription and editing itself are more established in the market, maybe counts and incomes have stabilized with the MTSOs that work with it, but I'd get assurance of that before I committed. |
The income problem isn't with EditScript itself SM - MsIndigo
