Maybe we all don't need to work two jobs, or care to.
Posted By: Get your undies out that knot! on 2005-10-30
In Reply to: not true and very racist - KM
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The jobs I have doing acute care work seem to be quite busy. sm
The clinic work that I do is still low, but that was discussed below ... I don't think it has anything to do with the holidays, and I do not care anymore.
Generally, probably hospital work is the way to go as far as a steady stream of work. With clinic work, doctors can take off, shut down totally for holidays, etc., which leaves a big hole, obviously. That's just my opinion, of course.
It would be great to have just one great job you could rely on to always give you a nice fat check each time, but I am beginning to realize if I truly want to be safe, I need to hedge my bets with several other jobs as well. At least until I win the lottery. 
Most of the jobs do not care how much experience
a person has now. The nationals are basically paying the same, 8 for straight and 4 for VR. I also remember getting extra pay for what they called weighted reports, those being ESLs or the most difficult reports. Gosh, I miss those, gravy!!
You're right about the acute care jobs
There isn't much for MTs that don't do acute care. I can hear the happiness in a recruiters voice when I tell them my experience and I had my choice of 4 jobs when I changed companies recently. I am in no way minimizing the OP's situation or trying to belittle her, I am just stating what I have found. I wish her all the luck and hope something works out for her soon.
As for poster who is bashing her, what goes around comes around. You never know when you're going to be in somebody else's shoes. A lot of MT's, especially the newer ones, don't have the confidence to try to go to another company. I don't know her reasons for not changing sooner, but I'm sure she's got them and it's not for us to judge.
Cherrypicking is when you work from a pool of jobs and being able to reject the worst jobs to those
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Ever thought of a home health care aide? Usually paid training and start work right away. Can work
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That is why I work 2 jobs, 1 FT and
1 PT, so I NEVER run out of work. If 1 runs out, I switch to the other. It is working out great. Ya got to keep ya U-know-what covered. (Hope I'm not banned for that.)
PT IC's who work 2 or more jobs (sm)
What kind of interesting schedules do you keep? Do you work X amount of lines on X days? Days versus evenings? Weekend sometimes? Just trying to get an idea and be creative with my scheduled and would love to hear how you manage to juggle...thanks!
Would you work two jobs if the first
says you cannot work for anyone else as long as you work for them and that all your transcription time must be for them only? This includes above a 40-hour week. Do you think they'd find out if I did? I am thinking of it because of the account I'm on and cannot make any money with.
My account is very complicated and they are always asking for extra help on it and it does not pay well. The account specs and headers are very intricate. You are supposed to know when dictators want stuff that they don't even ask for and the specs are constantly changed and updatead. The company does not pay for spaces or headers. I made 5.39 cents yesterday for two hours work. That's nuts. I've got two years experience and am not toally new, but can't make any money on this account and the company can't hardly keep anyone on it either. They don't seem to understand why they can't anyone and keep saying is it such a nice account. Duh!
Can you work both jobs until you
figure out if Keystrokes is on the up and up. I have been burned so many times and understand how you feel;however, every time someone posted on this board and said to be careful, I have learned to listen. I was warned against Precyse, Spheris, Medquist and did not listen and went broke with those companies because I did not listen, but you also have to take what others say with a gain of salt and do what is going to help you. You said you make good money right now, well you have your answer. I would stay put or work them both until you are 100% sure about Keystrokes.
Not everyone is able to work 2 jobs or even 3 sm
due to family responsibilities, personal health issues and/or other commitments. They took a job with TT and have had more or less enough to work to keep them happy. TT is their only source of income and in some cases,they are the sole wage earner, so be nice. Maybe TT should go ahead and lay off some people instead of going with the low work no work issue so people can collect unemployment and maybe food stamps for those who need it. I myself would give take a layoff at TT so someone with children could have enough work to put food on their table, even though I need the money as well. No need to flame me, that is just my own opinion.
No, you should not have to work 3 jobs
I think that if those of you who have to try to juggle multiple jobs were to get an on-site job in whatever field, you would be surprised to learn that nowdays working at home is not all it's cracked up to be. I never tried it but I think juggling 2 or 3 jobs would leave no time for a life. Believe me life is short. Too short to put up with the nonsense feast or famine. There has always been feast and famine but it used to be that the feast times were the norm. The famines were a welcome relief, not meaning out of work totally, but maybe a sacrifice of a few hundred lines during a pay period.
I don't even work there, but if there are 300 jobs
can't the company share that work with some of the others out of work? Seems kind of one sided to me. My observation is you like to gloat in front of those who have little or no work. Quite possibly you could mention to the company that others need work as well as you.
I work 2 jobs, get DD on both and never pay a fee!..sm
I think there are only a few companies left who actually charge for DD, but those are probably the ones who are always in question.
Then what? MTs need jobs & will still work for them,
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For those who work 2 or more jobs and they both want extra work? sm
Do you automatically give it to the one you do full time or the one that pays the most? Feel like there is some loyalty to the one who gives me benefits. How do you all do it?
Boy, you got that one right, and they don't seem to care if you don't have any work.
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I never run out of work, so what do I care? (sm)
 Go away.
I work on VR and I care about
quality. I read reports on here all the time stating that only MTs who are slow want to work on VR or, like your statement, all you will have left to edit are MTs who don't care about quality. That is an assumption on your part and will say again, when you assume a lot of the time you are wrong. I do VR because my hospital outsourced us. I loved the work where I was but I had no choice. I wanted to stay on the same work and therefore sought out the company that had the hospital work, found it and am now working on what I love. Gosh, I wish people would stop just assuming things.
Asking about dialup, work, jobs, etc. (SM)
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If you had to work 3 jobs to pay IC taxes, you were
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Does anybody work two jobs? Advice please :)
I work as an employee for a company with a 12-hour window, 40 hours a week, Monday through Friday, 1200 lines per day minimum. I've been offered something local to do on my own, approximately 1200 lines per day of work, but I would have the entire 24 hours to do it.
If I get my first job done at 1 p.m., I could get the other lines done in 5-6 hours max. Geez...I don't know. I'm probably going to kill myself doing this, aren't I? I was just calculating this as I was typing and didn't realize what a long day that would be.
Does anybody else do this? If so, how is it working for you? Do you feel burned out? I would really like to manage this somehow but want to be realistic. Any advice from someone who has done this or is successfully making something like this work would be appreciated! The extra money would be soooo nice right now. 
I would work 2 jobs, but the job you describe above would not be one of them!
I don't believe I would do the job you described at all...first, second, or third!
so you work 2 jobs to make that much
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Care to share where you work?
I've been looking for a hospital work from home for here in NJ and not having much luck. Is the hospital in your own state? TIA
I can do between 175-200 (acute care) when there is enough work.
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well, ask for acute care work , or can't you do that?
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TT only acute care work?
I am looking for clinic work only and from posts am unable to tell if they have only hospital transcription. I am burning out on testing with companies only to find out they have no clinic work. Any information would be appreciated. Many thanks!
If HL people know they are going to be losing their jobs, why are they still doing work for them?
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I usually work both jobs until I determine that the new job is really all I thought it would be. nm
legit work at home jobs
Go To: http://www.telcoa.org/id156.htm
i have worked for west.com - made $12 - $14 per hour, paid every 2 weeks
hope this will help
We have work. I've been in your shoes though with other jobs
They are screaming desperately, I get the job, and the second day of the job, there is no work so I sat there all afternoon twiddling my thumbs. By day 3, when I was told there was only 3 reports to do, I quit. Life's too short to waste my time and energy.
Yes. Check the # of jobs...0, 4, 21, etc., the words OT are there. The work soon won't be.
This happens often. Yes, it says OT is offered on an account, but there may be 0 jobs available. They absolutely do not owe us any OT at all ever, but it would be nice to get 40 hours in during your posted availability and not have to constantly flex to do so. People have other obligations in life besides Webmedx.
I like to work 2 part time jobs. sm
I don't like to put all my eggs in one basket. (Easter eggs LOL!) That way if I lose one I still have one to fall back on. Been burned too many times between offshoring and VR.
Why do companies advertise for jobs if they have no work?
I lost my job with a big offshoring company a couple of months ago. I knew it was coming so I started applying for jobs and sending my resume for posted jobs. The company that hired me responded to my resume submission within 2 HOURS and I was hired the next day. They had an immediate need, speciality I love, good pay. Now, a couple of months later I am getting calls and e mails from companies that I applied to months ago. One recruiter said, I don't know when we received your application, it was probably 90 days ago. During this same time period I have seen the Q advertise twice, claiming they have steady work (????) Of course, after reading posts here I would not even consider any offer from them. A lady from Spheris e mailed and ask that I let her know a time I could interview some time in the next several weeks.
I don't get it. If you do not have work, why are you posting jobs? I would consider this a big red flag.
They are well aware there is no work and that they have over hired..they don't care....sm
as long as backlog is 0 they are happy. Good luck to you. I guess one more person couldn't make it any worse than it already is, but I hope you don't have a family to feed.
But that is why she has people who work for her, to take care of other things when she has
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Acute care work pays more
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Acute care running out of work N/M
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is that clinic work or acute care if I may ask?
I prefer acute care and am really not interested in clinic but was told I have to do it
Is acute care work drying up? sm
It seems most of the jobs I see posted are for clinic accounts, even at my own company. I happen to do acute care now, but now I'm wondering how long it's going to last. I don't want to do clinic notes.
You have to wonder if the supervisors that dont care about no work are always
getting new MTs because they quit all the time.
There IS work out there, hundreds of jobs right now. Be a squeaky wheel!
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Jobs just trickling in here, too. IC's have decided to show up for work! nm
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Work for a company that does not offshore. Save our jobs.
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Work both jobs for awhile, part time for the new one. Most
of the MTSO will understand your reluctance to quit your old job until you are sure the new one will work. I have worked for two companies in the past year and told both that I would have to work part time until I was comfortable quitting my old job. I ended up keeping my old job because the new ones didn't work out. Also, 1 cpl decrease in pay isn't that much to make up if the work is good. Hopefully, you won't have to sit around waiting for work, and you can follow the BOS which will be easier for you and probably help you transcribe fater.
they are constantly out of work. Will show 40 jobs and a minute later none.
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Just curious if the MDIs who are out of work are on acute care? nm
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Acute care versus clinic work...sm
Which do you feel you can get a better line count on and would you take a slight pay cut to do just clinic work? Most acute care accounts have such difficult dictators and such I was wondering if it would just be better to go to a good clinic account even if it meant less per line. Opinions?  
If the company handles acute care work,
you can assume the hospitals demand coverage. That's how it's always been. The hospitals are open for business, so so are services.
We aren't much different from nurses or other acute care healthcare workers. If you want guaranteed holidays off, you need to get your work from offices that close on holidays.
I'll never figure out why people are so appalled that holidays have to be covered and we have to take our turns. The nicer places I've worked have split the coverage up so those covering would only have to work a half-day though. And there should be holiday bonus offered.
Clinic work versus acute care?
Anybody have any input as to the money to be made doing clinic work versus acute care?
Most facilties want their work for cheapest, dont care
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