Decent $ for working as an IC?

Notice I said decent..not fantastic, dream, etc. I planned on working for any money I got. I've been an MT for a while, we DO work for our money. I don't know who started the rumor we don't and need to get less because the consensus is now an idiot can do the job. Maybe that's how you get the medical records that the doctors, themselves, cannot decipher or make sense of without (wait for it) guessing. (I think we've all sailed in that boat t ...

I have been unemployed for about a year now. MQ took over my hospital and thus the entire transcription department was eliminated. Even the union could not keep this monster out. About 15 of us lost our careers. I have looked into several positions and cannot find any company that will pay me even 80% of what I am taking home on unemployment benefits!!! At 58 years of age I am too young to retire but perhaps too old to learn something new. ...

I just graduated and am starting the job search process. The headphones I used during school are pretty trashed. I want to get a decent pair that aren't super expensive. Does anyone have any suggestions/pair they really like? ...

How hard is it to find a decent job these days? ...

any decent companies out there that have never been heard of on this board? There are so many that repeat themselves all the time and no one wants to work for them because of that. Any other ones that are not so common? ...

I cannot even get ONE decent report where I don't have to change every second word. Most of the time I end retyping the whole report because the ASR is so poor. I just want to tear out my hair between the poor sound quality, having to deal with terrible dictators and ASR that is now either cutting off every other word or just plain incorrect words. ...

My company is switching me to a VR account in which I will use EXText for VR editing. Just wondering if you can make decent line counts with this program? ...

Hi, I seem to struggle with line counts (a few years into MTing). Some accounts I am fine with and some very slow. Because of the nature of the work (and working from home), I have no way to gauge if the faster accounts are just abnormally easy or the slower accounts are abnormally hard. - Do you all (who have decent line counts) feel like you are moving like a mad person or just moving along at a decent pace? Any ideas on how to tell what my issues are or what the scoop is?&n ...

Okay, so today if I did 1320 lines and sent 93 lines to QA, which was only 2 reports all day. Wow it adds up fast! This is more than 5% for today (not sure exactly what % but I'm sure it's over 5%). I'm pretty sure this is an average day. So, I'm still confused about how much we get docked.....will I get paid 3 cents less a line for EVERY line starting when I first go over 5% in any given week, which will be the FIRST day? Will it be on EVERY lin ...

Are there any companies out there that pay decent cpl rates? I am noticing most are offering .07 cpl. Are there any that pay .10? Thanks in advance! ...

I've been working as am employee for the past several years, but I think I'm ready to move back to IC status. Can anyone point me toward some of the better companies? Thanks! ...

And what is the average line count a person averages with VR in an 8-hour shift? Thanks! ...

Just wondering if anyone out there is actually making decent money doing VR as apposed to straight typing? ...

Hoping to get some opinions on better ones - I already know all about the others! Thanks. ...

Hi all! I really need to work for a company with decent health insurance for an individual. I think it would be a good reference for everyone if you could reply with the name of your MTSO, your health insurance premium, and whether it's individual or family. Anyone want to participate? ...

I have been using M*Modal for about a month and a half now and I was really trying to give it a shot, but I am really doubting that I can ever make good money with this program. I used to be able to transcribe approximately 25 min/hour and these were docs that went pretty fast, so I usually got 250 to 300 lines/hour @ 9/line, so I made about 22.50 to 27.00/hr. Now with M*modal, they dropped the line rate 4/line and there is just no way that I ...

Here lately it seems like I am doing more work, and getting less lines. Anyone else having the same problem? ...

I have been put on 3 new accounts this week and I have been having a hell of a time making any lines at all this week. Now, I hardly get any work from my old account. Any suggestions on what I can do to improve my line count? ...

I am looking into to taking a second job to make extra money. My main job pays by the hour as I work directly for a hospital and it is a combination of speech and straight transcription work. Consequently, I'm thinking maybe taking a strictly speech job would be easier on my neck, shoulders, arms, and hands, but I don't want to be wasting my time. If I'm not going to make any money doing it, why bother? So I would like to know if there are any MTs out there who ...

Just wondering what a good line count per day would be to make decent CPL for a decent paycheck. (on VR) Currently getting paid by the house, but SOON to switch to CPL. ...

Can anyone share if Amphion has decent health benefits and what full-time employees must maintain to keep benefits? Thanks! ...

I am so tired of this line of work, but right now it is all I've got. I quit MQ, who bought out Spheris, because of all the MANDATORY OT, hostile emails, etc, and now I am working for Transcend, who is being bought out by Nuance. God only knows what I'm in for now. I can't make the line count half the time because for some reason the counts are really whacky. I have to work twice as hard to make what I made at Spheris and I have the supervisor breathi ...

I understand they don't pay for spaces, headers or footers so one would assume this would greatly reduce line counts. ...

I quit my in-house MT job, a job that I had held for almost 20 years, a little over a year ago because of a new boss who drove me and about 10 other people to quit because she was so hard to work for. I thought long and hard about it before I quit, but could not see myself putting up with her for the next 10-15 years until I could retire. She was making some of us physically ill because of stress. I believe we may have been "creatively downsized". Since I q ...

Looking for work in Radiology. Currently working, but making very poor income even at 6 cpl editing. That should be good, but I don't know why I am not making more. Maybe the way they count the lines or something. Anybody know of a good place for a decent income in Radiology? ...

Over the past few months, the account that I am on has gone from being at least half straight typing to almost all VR, with only a very small handful of dictators that are still on straight transcription. I am having a really hard time making a living since this has happened and my paychecks keep getting smaller and smaller. I am wondering if anyone else is in the same situation, or if it's just me. My account is a pretty busy one, but most of these VR reports are a comple ...

Are there any MT's out there that do Radiology and still have good accounts and are still making decent money??? Just checking, going to lose my biggest account in a few weeks..... ...

I've been contacted re radiology position with Diskriter. All the info I've found here on the board is pretty old. I'm really curious as to what current/past employees think of the company now. Anyone done radiology for them? Wondering about ESLs, pay rate, flexibility in schedule, NJA - basically all the standard questions we want answered before we make a jump to a company? Help! I've been an IC for one hospital for over 10 years but but r ...

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