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Thinking of quitting hospital job. sm - Not sure

Posted: May 25, 2012

What are good companies to work for. Have worked for hospital 20+ years. Am just kind of fed up. Would like flexibility to work around husband's schedule. Are there jobs like that?

Hospital job - Kat

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My personal opinion is to stay with the hospital job. I would give anything to find a hospital that still hires transcriptionists!!!! None around here.

Hospital Job - Pixie

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I would give my right arm to find a hospital transcriptionist position! They won't be available again until VR is gone (and it WILL be)and hospitals realize they have made mistakes in throwing away their transcription departments. STAY WITH THE HOSPITAL!!!

can I have it? - nm

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nm

Thinking of quitting hospital job - punkin0831

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Shoot,I wish I still had my hospital job as we were terminated due to outsourcing to a certain company who has been scooping up all the hospitals in my area.

NotSure, are you paid by the hour now? - Addressing if you are, the transition to piecework

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could be a harsh one. Line rates are so low that you really, really need to be very fast. These days being very, very fast typically means either being a naturally phenomenal typist with some expander use or a normal typist who's spent years building speed with very extensive expander use. A lot of hourly people haven't faced this need to continually work at developing speed and crash and burn when faced with production-pay realities.

Both also need great familiarity with assigned accounts, something that is not always possible working through an MTSO, although I strongly recommend quitting and finding a proper job for anyone who can't get assigned stable and few accounts. That's how important this is.

No, there aren't jobs like that - sm

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You still have to work a schedule, do a good job, and be dependable, accurate, and fast.

Working around your husband's job isn't likely one of the luxuries you'll find at-home MT affording you.

Wow! I guess maybe I'd better stay put. sm - Hospital job

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Thanks for all the replies. Yes, I think burned out and a supervisor who doesn't care about us. Just some stupid stuff going on like now having to get up at 3:30 a.m. on weekends to get to work on time, showing favoritism on holiday schedule, not enough work and making remotes come to the office to work on mindless jobs. Just wondered about other jobs on line or possibly advertising working for doctors in the community. Thanks again.

Don't do it. You'll regret it dearly. (nm) - CMT leaving da biz

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I agree with CMT. The grass is NOT greener on - the other side of this fence.

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If you've been 20 years at the same place, you're probably just bored and burned out. Plan a vacation with your husband, take up a new hobby, enroll in some classes, plant a garden, join a book club...anything that will be a change of pace but IMO you will live to regret leaving the hospital 1000 times over. The pay sucks, your benefits will not be as good and you will be inviting a truckload of stress into your home. If you have any doubts, I beg you to consider staying put and maybe taking a parttime remote job with an MTSO for a test drive. Within 3 months, I guarantee you will be thanking your lucky stars for what you already have.

as a veteran of over 30 MT years - sm

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in the at-home realm, you will more than likely find yourself married to your machine -- being expected to flex your hours for the company, not for yourself, either for poor work flow, downtime, high work flow, etc. I long for a stable in-house position now.

Quitting a hospital - burned out

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I would love to work for a hospital again, after being sold for slave labor to a big MTSO company that outsources their work to India while I sit here and wait and wait to do any work and pray I can get my lines in to make $250 a week less than when I was with the hospital.

dont' quit your hospital job! - MT30+

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Dont do it, please! Read all these post they are not lying. The MTSO companies stink anymore. I would give anything to have a hospital job. Like most everyone else, many hospitals dont have in-house MTs anymore. Once you leave, you may not find anything again in a hospital. The grass is not greener. Believe me. Did MT for 32 years, 23 for the same MTSO that started out great years ago and then got so bad, I got out. Tried 5 more after that and said forget it. Iwish the 23 I had given to the one BIG MTSO I had just stayed at the hospital.

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