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The grass is not greener - I am staying put

Posted: Feb 16, 2010

I was hired twice in the past 6 months and quit both jobs within 2 to 3 days. Thank goodness I did not quit my regular job! Both jobs sounded absolutely wonderful and both turned out to be total nightmares!

I no longer look at the jobs listed here or anywhere else, for that matter. You know the old saying "better the devil you know that the devil you don't know." Wow, how true that is!

It seems that the companies who are now looking, are all at the bottom of the heap. Good companies are not looking for MTs because no one is leaving. Makes sense in these times especially. So, I am staying right where I am and be grateful that the company I wanted to run from was sure nice to run back to.

I am getting very close to the same idea - sameboat

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It's kinda sad, though. I'm still running back to a salary reduced from what it had been. That seems to be the nature of the beast these days though. Crikey. I have a freakin' degree from a reputable school, too--it's just in something I can't do anything with.

Grass not greener - Came to the same

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conclusion. I was job hunting hard and heavy for about two months, and not only was the grass not greener, it wasn't even nearly AS GREEN as where I already work! It just took getting job offers that didn't meet half the criteria that my job meets. I thought I could make more money somewhere else, and that was my motivation, but I could only find a miniscule amount more per line (converted, as I actually get paid for characters and spaces, not lines), but had to work weekends, or 2nd shift, or be locked into a schedule, or have crappy dictators, or run out of work. I could go on and on! I'm staying put for a good, long time...

What I did was start finding ways to work smarter and be more productive, and with my accounts the dictators are really great, so it was really a no-brainer.

I consider myself lucky now, and I'm glad I had the experience of the hunt to make me realize that. I look at my job in a whole different light, and try to protect it a little more, if that makes sense. I know I sound like a crazy person, but that is really what it did for me!

grass is definitely not greener - old mt

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I've been with a company I love - but work has been slow. Ventured out to part-time work for other companies three times and all three were disasters. I'm just spending way less and getting along fine. 3-1/2 years until I can retire - too old, too tired to put up with the nonsense some companies are shoveling out for awful pay. I find the grass is not only not greener, but quite often yellowed from being peed on!

You took the words - old mt - Grass not greener

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right out of my mouth! Quote: "I find the grass is not only not greener, but quite often yellowed from being peed on!"

That is the precise sentiment I was looking for in my post above; it just didn't come to me last night! I LOVE it!!!

Well... - cindyoh

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sometimes you get lucky. I'm not a job-hopper and really did not want to leave Spheris, but the pay cut was too drastic, so I did leave reluctantly last year. Got hired on elsewhere, smaller place, decent account, money better than what I left, and I'm very relieved the chance I took paid off for me. Hanging on at Spheris would have done me no good. But yeah, I think you guys are right for the most part.

I guess I'd say beware 6 one one versus half a dozen of another - sameboat

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Such as (example), old company forces VR at much lower pay rate versus new company pays higher but has platform that ensures you will produce less lines. That kinda thing. The paycheck you end up getting turns out to be pretty similar, and you've had to start over with PTO, etc.

You are right, sameboat - grass is greener

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That is what I ran into. I could find a job that paid *slightly* better, but I heard the platform could be cumbersome, or they were very strict about sticking to an exact schedule, and who knows how the account/dictators would have been? I was only concentrating on finding a higher pay rate, and not thinking about any of that stuff. Fortunately (now) for me, I didn't get an offer that didn't require at least one weekend day, or I might have made a BIG mistake! Had I found a M-F job that paid more, I probably would have taken it...

After reading some of the posts on here over the last couple of months, and hearing that a higher line rate might not end up increasing your pay if you have to deal with other hurdles, I changed my thinking on that subject! Plus, it's not that my pay is low, per se, I just thought I should be able to find better. I was naive.

Oops! Meant to say - grass not greener, not IS nm

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What is so sad is... - Anne

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is that we (I include myself) are just so ready to accept all this that is going on like this is okay. Where are the MT associations/AHIMA bigwigs to stand up for us. I feel like employers treat us like the materials they can so easily crumple in their hands and throw away.

Please,please if you are a newbie out there looking to get into medical information services, DO NOT get into Medical Transcription or Medical LANGUAGE (What a Laugh!) specialist area. We are all dinosaurs getting ready for the big hugh rock to fall out of the sky.

I appologize in advance. It is just the way I see the world today. If you really want to, Please, Please get a job with a hospital. Do not go with a private company. You are wasting your time.

so true - newbie

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The medical field will always be around, but the muckety-mucks think way too much of voice recognition and too little of us anymore. It's not a field I'd advise anyone to go into anymore except maybe part-time to make just some spare change--and who the hell's in that lucky a spot anymore?

What's really disgusting - MT schools call MT industry - recession proof!

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Yep, I got spam today for MT training, telling me I could work at home in a recession-proof industry! I could not believe my eyes! Its blatant lies like this that show me even when the industry is utterly dead greed and exploitation will ALWAYS be around.

amen n/m - Jasper

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