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Any MMEs out there who love the position and are making - good money?
Posted: Mar 19, 2010
Just wondering.
Are they any out there who left MME to be must MT/ME?
Just wondering if the MME position is working out well for anybody.
Sorry about typos. Spilled coffee on keyboard, everything is sticking. - Oops.
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My personal computer thank goodness, not my work computer.
Just wondering if anyone is doing well in the MME position or if anyone has lost money.
It doesn't matter anyway, I guess. MQ will probably eliminate it anyway, like they do with positions habitually.
Excuse any typos. I am getting a new keyboard tonight. Takes too long to keep rehitting keys on this one.
Good Money - anon
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Apparently you are a newbie to this board. There is no money in transcription for MQ. A lot are making minimum wage.
good money, r u kidding , thanks for the laugh - this is the worst I have made
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my entire life, here at the Q as is called. if you begin to make any money, they will find away, yes a way, to lower you down again, and again. how can you afford a keyboard. my electric is about to be turned off. scraping by or is that scrapping by, :)
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Living Proof - anon
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Over and over I adopted and adapted to their new and improved tools and the minute I would begin making anything resembling a living, I would be transferred to a new region to begin all over again. Now with the ASR, new docking implementation, and massive amounts of time looking up old reports to try and fill in a blank for some regional clinic, doctor, patient employer, etc. that I have no way of knowing, I am making approximately what I could make working the front desk at the Holiday Inn.
Yes I am making - too bummed to tell
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more money than I did in 3rd grade when I didn't even have a job.
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