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looking for insight [2008-01-24]
Hello All, This is my first post here. I have some questions about my current employment situation and was hoping for some insight from others who may have been in my shoes before. Basically, I have been working for a small transcription service for the last 2 years.I came into the field as a way to have a flexible, at-homeschedule for my school aged children and just to earn a little extra cash per month. I donformal MT training or education but because of the bachelorreally love the work, but after 2 years I am only making 7.75 cents per line. Each time I get comfortable with a certain discipline and begin to increase my line count, the employer switches the account I'm on and I'm back to square 1. Also due to the limited availability of the work she has right now, I'm only getting 5-10 hours a week, if that. Sorry to be so long-winded, I suppose I'm just wondering if 7.75 is a fair rate for 2 years experience and if I'm getting the shaft by being switched from 1 discipline to another every few months so that I am never able to increase my production/pay. I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thank you.
looking for insight [2008-01-24]
About a year ago, I received a whopping quarter of a cent increase and was basically told not to ask for another rate increase for at least a year unless my production increased to well above the 800 lines per day that my contract states that I'll do. That's been impossible to do because of the lack of work on their system for the last 3-4 months. I guess I struggle with the fact that I really have no MT credentials, just on the job training, but I'm told I do great work. I'm also hampered by the fact that the owner of the company is somewhat of a personal friend. I want to look into other options, but because I'm still relatively new to the field, I don't even know where to begin. Thanks for your response!
looking for insight [2008-01-24]
Hello All, This is my first post here. I have some questions about my current employment situation and was hoping for some insight from others who may have been in my shoes before. Basically, I have been working for a small transcription service for the last 2 years.I came into the field as a way to have a flexible, at-homeschedule for my school aged children and just to earn a little extra cash per month. I donformal MT training or education but because of the bachelorreally love the work, but after 2 years I am only making 7.75 cents per line. Each time I get comfortable with a certain discipline and begin to increase my line count, the employer switches the account I'm on and I'm back to square 1. Also due to the limited availability of the work she has right now, I'm only getting 5-10 hours a week, if that. Sorry to be so long-winded, I suppose I'm just wondering if 7.75 is a fair rate for 2 years experience and if I'm getting the shaft by being switched from 1 discipline to another every few months so that I am never able to increase my production/pay. I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thank you.
Depending on what state you live in [2007-09-10]
you can check to see if your state offers subsidized child care. For instance, I live in the IL and there is a subsidy that you can apply for. I would start with your local county web site and look under family or child welfare. If you can find anything there call the county courthouse to be directed to the proper agency.
Go to www.ywca.org to see if they can hook you up with a list of child care providers. They offer that here in the Chicago area. It is a list of child care resources where the providers have beenscreened for having alicensewhich includes a background check, etc. The list will also tell you which ones accept the IL state subsidy for child care.
Iweb site but there iswww.singlemom.com which may offer some other insight.
If your interested in attending a college, community or otherwise, that may offer a connection for you with other student moms where you take turns watching each others kids while one person goes to work or class or studies, gets out for a while, etc. There are grants and loans to be had a college that will help short term.
When you find work and file taxes, don This was a big help to me because I put it aside to be used for the next year You can also file the cost of your child care on taxes.
Lastly,the law is on your side for supportmoney. Check with your local bar association to see if they can recommend a pro bono lawyer or legal clinic that might help suck somemoney out of the good for nothing...well you get the picture.
Good luck, been there done that...
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