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it is to the point where I just feel lucky to have 2 jobs and plenty of work at both, at least right now. I have to switch to cardio from OPs, but I am an employee there and they have every right to dictate to me. I needed a change, so this is not unwelcome, exactly.
I don't work for 7 or even 8 cents a line, I do better, but I work my fanny off with 16-hour days, 6 days a week. It is grueling, but I am saving for the time when I will not be an MT any longer. I thought I would have this career for the rest of my working life, but I don't think so now.
Part of what we are seeing is not a bad thing. Smaller, ineffective, and frankly poor quality services are going under and they are hanging on by their toenails in offering less money to ICs. When you can't the quality workers, you can't produce the quality work and you'll lose your accounts. End of your business.
As for larger companies, they are looking at trying to cut work force in favor of...well I am not sure what. Most of them seem to be trying to work the MTs they have harder rather than hire. It is also the time of year and worry over a new president and financial instability of the US as a whole. I don't put too much store in the time of year because I had many offers this time last year.
All of this is going to cause something else that is not too pleasant for many of us. That is, I suspect that the lesser quality, slower MTs who don't take their jobs seriously, will be edged out. I am hearing from a lot of MT friends that their companies are pushing for minimum lines that you make or you are asked to leave. It puts a lot of MTs out of work, fairly or unfairly. We are, like so many other professions, being squeezed until only the strongest and best survive. It is market where the companies are spoiled for choice, which really is awful when you are an MT. The more experience you have the less likely they are to hire you because they are pretty sure you want more than they can or will pay you.
I have decided to suck it up and stay in for now. I don't like making the same line rate that I made 10 years ago, even if my yearly income is 5 times what it was then. I can't have a raise unless I care to work more. It is life. I have a good income even still, I can eat and pay all my bills, AND save 35% of my after tax income. When I have needed more money in the last couple of years, I have looked where I can cut expenses and that has helped a lot. |
I agree with you, but sm - Appreciated MT
