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Yahoo! Article about MT being #4 best job to have for flexibility - Hayseed

Posted: Nov 04, 2010

Totally made me LOL this morning, especially the "You get to decide your own hours" line. I cut and pasted this section of the article but the full report can be found here:

http://education.yahoo.net/articles/flexible_careers_that_pay.htm?wid=1

Career #4 - Medical Transcriptionist

Medical transcriptionists listen to and transcribe dictated recordings made by doctors and other health care professionals. As a medical transcriptionist, you would need to understand medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures, pharmacology, and treatment assessments.

Freedom Factor: A great many medical transcriptionists work at home, thanks to the growing practice of receiving dictation over the Internet. If you're one of these home-based medical transcriptionists, you get to decide your own hours. It's up to you whether you work full time, part time, evenings, or weekends.

Training: Completion of a two-year associate's degree or one-year certificate program is highly recommended, but not always required. Many programs include supervised on-the-job experience.

Salary: Medical transcriptionists had a median hourly wage of $15.41 in May 2008, with the top 10 percent of transcriptionists earning more than $21.81 per hour.

Actually, the salary, at least, seems almost realistic. - sm

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No "$50,000 a year" in your pajamas poo.

Salary - RLee

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The salary mentioned was in 2008 - they need to do an update more in depth to the declning wages (slave wages) in the MT industry and the reasons why. I used to make that wage in 2008, but 2009 barely made a living and 2010 on unemployment. Thanks for the laugh!!!!!

Seems very accurate to me then and now. - gaga

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Am making roughly $22 to $24 an hour now compared to 2008.

Seems pretty accurate to me - sm

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At one of the larger companies I once worked for, I had a schedule, but I did get to chose what shift and what hours out of that shift I wanted to work. I now work for a medium-sized where I do work when I want and do average prob 15000 lines per bimonthly pay period at 9 cpl. Not to mention what I am saving in gas, childcare, clothing, eating out, etc.

I'd say they were right on target with it. - ?

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It reads to me as propaganda. Something - Lowly paid MT with lots of experience

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a school would put out trying to lure people into taking their course.

Until two years ago, I was making $20+/hour, now it is more like $9 and that is really with pushing. I would take a minimum wage job in a heartbeat if I could get one. The pay is about the same and the amount of responsibility and knowledge is far less. I never get beyond the online application. I am guessing it is my age. So for those who are making this great wage, you are one account away from the real world of transcription today. I hope you have paid off your houses and cars when your salaries are high. That is what has saved me.

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