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Can we have something positive for a change? - Cheesey

Posted: Oct 17, 2011

Seriously, all I read about here are how MT sucks. It's horrible. Get out while you can.

I'm new to this field. This talk is very disheartening. Reading these threads even makes me work less because it feels pointless. So, please, can I have some positives? Something to show me that I can live off this line of work.

How many people are doing well? Good? Great?!

Sorry, don't think many are living off of transcription anymore. - JMHO

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You hear so much complaining here because so many of us who have been here for more than 5 years or so have seen our pay cut drastically. In my case, I've lost my house, car and have had to declare bankruptcy last year. So why am I still here? I'm over 50, have only done transcription for the past 20 years. I'm actively looking for another position but most of the time I can't even get an interview. I can bet dollars for donuts that a younger person will get the job every time. I used to make $25,000 working part-time as a transcriptionist, now I make about half that. I didn't used to need a man around to help support me and now I do, and it really sucks to be in this position.

So, no, I don't have anything positive to tell you right now, except for the fact that I still have a job, and it barely covers the basics I need to live.

I'm hanging in there for now - strawberry

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I still love working at home. I worked as an office nurse for 13 years and I make the same amount of money doing transcription at home that I did at that horribly stressful job. If you would have asked me about my job as a nurse that last year, I would have said some horrible things about it. I was burned out. I think many that post here and complain are burned out. I've been transcribing now for 5 years and I'm going to have to bite the bullet and go to VR. I did a little of it while working for Transcend and I didn't like it, but I think I could get used to anything really as long as I'm able to still work from home. I can understand those MTs getting angry cause they have seen a drastic cut in their pay with all the changes, but many here still have said they make $30,000 a year doing VR! I don't know how and would love to learn, but if they make that much and are able to stay home and work, then really there shouldn't be complaining. Also, if people are losing their homes and cars and filing bankruptcy then I would think a career change would have been done before all of that happened. I guess I'm glad that I didn't start doing this when it was paying the big bucks as I have never seen that. I just don't understand how someone can lose so much by a profession and still continue to do it, no matter what age you are.

Are you sticking with the Q? - wasHappymt

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I remember from your posts you were with eTrans right? I am also. Are you sticking with the Q?. I am hanging in there at least until they change my pay or switch my accounts. From some I have spoken to at both places (old and new), they seem to think it could take months or longer to integrate. I hope for once that they are really, really slow!! I loved eTrans! Good Luck!

I was a buy-out. Now Q is doing MY accts, MY ASR, I'm not - allowed. Took 1 month for this. nm

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yep, staying for now - strawberry

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I hope it takes a while for the transfer over LOL!

Do you type VA? I do. Someone here said that VA won't allow for VR records and also no off-shoring. I just wonder if they will lose the VA accts or allow them to be straight typing?

strawberry - Teresa

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I hope that they will be transcribed and not typed.

Excellent Message! You've made some good points that I've been thinking too - nm

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No complaints from me - mimi

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I'm having a very good year, better than last year so I can't complain. I'm at 54K gross so far on the year. I've been doing this over 10 years, so don't expect to make that right out of the gate, but it is do-able.

No complaints from me either, although last - year was a little rocky

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It was rocky due to my own bad job decision and my decision to try to "make it work" (thank you, Tim Gunn!) with a company much longer than I should have. Now, finally, things are looking up and everything is rosy in my world again.

OP, you have to remember that there are THOUSANDS of MTs in the country right now and I would venture to guess that not all of them come on this board. The really happy people are busy busting their humps and making a living and probably don't come to this board much. Quite frankly which is what I should be doing, but it was time for a break.

There are a lot of people who are not doing well in this industry for one reason or another. I'm not discounting anything anyone says that is bad, I just think there's a lot more good out there that is unspoken.

Remember that old customer service axiom: A happy person will tell one or two people, but an unhappy person will tell everyone he or she knows.

I love this job. I havent been doing it as long as some of the other ladies who post here, but for the most part it's been a great job and it beats the HECK out of having to go work in an office and deal with paper work and office politics and personalities for 40 hours a week. Good granny, if I had that to look forward to for the rest of my life, I think I might just poke my eyeballs out.

Sorry, but that should tell you something - sm

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I have been at this for 16 years and this is the only career I know of where the pay has gone down. I consistently get offered 7 cpl for a job when I started out at 7.5! I am trying to get out, too. On top of the pay going downhill and being treated like a slave, we are "required" to buy stuff just to have the privilege of getting a job with them. I have only paid for equipment to get a job once. Never again!!!

Go to any web forum for any career field and you find the same thing - All is gloom and doom and contagious

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It doesn't matter what you want to do for a living, you'll find the same negativism everywhere. These are very bad times. Some people stay focused and do relatively fine. Some are in the wrong line of work and others would do fine, but they let all of the negativity bring them down. I've found lately that it's bringing me down. It's contagious!

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