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ICs Want To Hear From You - Disgusted

Posted: May 30, 2014

I recently took a job as an IC, thinking it would be great to make my own schedule. HOWEVER, I have to work when the work is there. There is no making my own schedule. The work flow dictates when I work. There is no work on Monday or Tuesday. Maybe a few reports trickle in late Tues, but then more work comes late Wednesday afternoon, then work Thurs, Fri, Sat, and by Sunday no work again. Account is for clinic docs, no acute care. Is this the same experience you other ICs are having. I'm so disgusted with this. Got outsourced last summer. Went from making $1100 after taxes to now barely $600 for 2 weeks. Platform is crap, there is no money in this profession anymore.

IC - Been There

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You sound like me three years ago. I went to work as an IC, only because I could not find a decent employee position and it was a nightmare for over a year. I felt like I was chained to the computer, wondering when work would come in. If there was some and I didn't jump on it. immediately it was gone. I tried second jobs to supplement and that was a total nightmare and counterproductive to say the least. I kept looking and never found anything decent, so stuck it out; then the worm turned! A couple MTs quit, she got a couple of new accounts and now there is more work than I actually want and I can more or less make up a schedule for myself. All I can say, is hang in there, but if you don't think it will change or just can't take it, look elsewhere. There are no decent jobs out there any more. I don't like being an IC because of the taxes, but like I said, I could not find a decent employee position and I am so done with the big companies, i.e., Nuance, Keystrokes, M*Modal; been there done that and never, ever again. Good luck, it is hard to make a living at transcription any more. I actually do have good accounts and no voice and no ESLs, but it is clinic notes and you really have to grind them out! I like acute care, but had to pick my battles!

The MTSO cannot pull jobs out of the air. Of course you work when work - is there. How could you work otherwise? nm

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