I've worked in-house and at home ....

• Working at home, do you ever have people telling you - sm
  • working from home! - andromeda
  • Working from home - Nanna23
  • Its human nature to impose on other people whats right for yourself! - sm
  • It's the way everybody acts like I don't have a "real" - job that bothers me the most. (NM)
  • When they tell you that "you need to get out and be around people", tell them... (sm) - simple answer
    • I don't like people - Just tell them
      • Haha! I would love to be able to say this...problem is, it might be taken - wrong since you'd actually be talking to a pers
  • My husband is the worst when it comes to telling me I don't get out - I hate it
  • Always hear it as well, and it irritates me as well. I - don't even bother trying to
  • I've worked in-house and at home .... - See msg
  • the one I love the best is (sm) - screaming
    • DH always asks me if I hit any traffic on the way to work - they're just jealous
      • I have a cat who dashes in front of my feet - when he needs to be fed...
        • Yep -- ROAD RAGE - me again
    • When you kids want money, don't give it to them and say, 'I thought you said - I don't work". nm
  • i hear it also.... - dcc

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You have to be disciplined to make yourself work when baby is napping instead of maybe watching TV or doing housework, etc.   

I might also go the route of having a teen come into your home, or either trying a mother's morning out program at a local church/daycare.   I've been home since my youngest was born and he has never been in all-day daycare, but I did have him in a mother's morning out program 15 hours a week at a local church.   It didn't help a lot with my work schedule because I had an older son in school and was a room mom and tutored other kids, but that might be an option.  The only problem with the mother's morning out program is they are around other kids and tend to pick up every germ.  I finally took my DS out of the program because he stayed sick.  You were supposed to keep them off if they had green nasal discharge and I did, but no one else did.  Every time I got him well after 2 to 3 days back he would be sick again.  Other than that it was very good for him because he would not have had a chance to be around kids his age otherwise. 

Slow at the beginning of the summer. After the Fourth of July, people started coming in for elective surgery and things like that and work picked up.

It used to be really slow at Christmas, but with high deductibles on most insurance policies, December was fast becoming the busiest month of the year when I left.

at several different hospitals, we would bring a problem dictator to the attention of the supervisor, who then would present it to the HIM manager.  Most of the time the problem dictators got better after a discussion with the manager.  If it costs the hospitals EXTRA money, believe me they will take corrective action.  Money talks!

Sometimes, there are very legitimate reasons for corrections, as we all know, and I don't think Frustrated was upset about the legitimate ones.   There is a lot more of this careless dictator crap going on at teaching hospitals, but at least they have an excuse, they are new to dictating and usually feel quite bad for making so many corrections.  If they realize this and make an effort to be more careful, I don't have a problem with them, but there's just no excuse for the long-time dictators who carelessly make the MTs jobs more difficult.

While a certain amount of addendums or mind changing does happen, an "abuser" should always be brought to the attention of management.  No one knows about these dictators unless an MT brings it to the attention of those in charge.  Frustrated has a right to complain!  I feel her pain!

I had a dictator (on an account at an MT service) who made 10 different corrections to her reports on a regular basis & I am not exaggerating.  I had been instructed to join them altogether (in a time-consuming fashion) and fed up finally, I flagged them ALL separately for QA.  The transcription manager gave me a hard time about it, but I fought back.  However, when I talked to QA, she told me I did the right thing and that the hospital was having a "discussion" with that particular dictator as there was NUMEROUS complaints.  Dictator cleaned up her act a bit after that & I didn't have much more trouble with her.

One on one with a kid is nice, too.

This summer has been absolutely crazy.  I haven't had a moment to myself for three months because all of my kids were home traipsing their friends through the house and yard.  My husband switched his work schedule, too, so he's around more than usual.  However, I like not having to do two loads of dishes and four loads of laundry a day.  There are no toys or clutter dragged out everywhere.  I can clean the house first thing in the morning, and it stays clean until everyone gets home at night.

I even got to relax with a cup of coffee and watch TV for half an hour this morning, something I liked for a change instead of cartoons or kids' movies.  I signed up for an online class that I've been wanting to take.  I can exercise without being interrupted.  Yesterday, I went to the mall and spent all my saved up gift cards.  I got some clothes, books, bath stuff, and a new coffee mug.  My work gets done a lot faster, too.  Call me nuts, but I've never had the luxury of being alone in the house for 14 years.  It's kinda nice.  I love my family with all my heart, but I love having a few hours to myself each week, too.

Except now the cat and dogs have been acting weird since the kids went back to school.  They must think that I need someone or something to clean up after and correct behavior on.  They're getting into everything and racing around the house behind me.

and when I went on Maternity leave they set me up from home.  I started working for a national in January.  My other at home position went VR and they brought all the jobs back in house. I couldn't go back into the office as I have two little ones and the cost of daycare is outrageous.  What's the sense of working then?

We got paid hourly plus incentive pay.  Anything over 1100 lines a day was paid an incentive rate of 5 cents per line (plus your normal hourly wage).

So, if I typed 2000 lines in an 8-hour shift I would make:

$16.50 x 8 hours = $132

900 lines (1100 to 2000 lines) x 0.05 cpl = $45

Total for the day = 132 + 45 = $177.

We had a maximum of $1000 a month that we were allowed to earn in incentive pay.

Hope this helps you!

Chickadee

I still crack up at the time my dad came home from work to find my 2 eldest brothers room a shambles with clothes strewn all over the place.  Being a senior and junior in high school their clothes WERE prize possesions..until that day when they got pitched out the window into the backyard full of mud from all the spring rain. 

Now that one worked as they never ever let a pair of shorts even touch anything but their dirty clothes basket.  Now, I'm using the same standard on my boys and just the uncles telling that story keeps them in line

never as much as a single episode of no work available.  Much to my dismay, I have found out that MTing from home for a nation is so unpredictable, in so far as what your paycheck is going to be every week or 2.  They all say "there is plenty of work," which is probably factual.  However, the nationals are primarily interested in pleasing the client with their promised swift turn-around-times.  What they forget is that if it weren't for the MTs, there would be no turn-around-time whatsoever.  It's really very discouraging and quite unfair.  Most people try to adhere to their monthly budget, which is impossible when one never knows how much they are going to make from one week to the next. We ARE the providers, not peeons, and resent being treated as such.   

I got offered a job in a small neurology office starting at $17/hr with a raise in a few months.  No working weekends or holidays and lots of vacation days.  Low stress.

I currently work at home for a pretty decent company with a pretty decent line rate, but am starting to feel pressure to produce more...my average pay at home is between $13 and $15 an hour.  It also adds stress when there is little to know work available and I am having to alter my schedule to "make up" time.

So, I would be making a bit more money, but I will have to have child care for the summers and for after school, so I don't know if it is worth it. 

Can someone give me some insight as to whether they were faced with this decision...what they decided and why?  I would really appreciate it. 

Help! What do I do?  I currently work for a pretty good national company and I get to stay home and work in my PJs, but then... we ran out of work for a few days and I panicked.  I applied for an in-house position doing radiology, which I have never done before.  I am fairly certain they will offer me the position to work 24 to 32 hours, with many more hours if I want them.  It pays about 18.50 per hour during the week and 19.39 on the weekends, which I will work one weekend day.  So now what???

Do I give up the comfort of my home for a guaranteed paycheck and work in a cubical typing radiology notes for 8 hours a day?  UGH!  Tough to have such choices in this economy. 

Any insight or thoughts on this?  I do have young children, but they spend a lot of time at grandma's while I work anyway.

then you don't have to do anything with the tax depreciation, etc.

I felt like a hermit when he went back to a conventional office job! 

I take it your husband isn't working at the present time?  Did I understand you correctly?  How the heck are you getting bills paid? My DH makes 3 times what I do so I couldn't imagine living on just my pay as an MT.  Just curious!

and when you physically *see* 3-year-old kids with leukemia or others kinds of cancer, it can very well break your heart but you see  how brave they are....in dealing with their illnesses.  I couldn't take it after about 5-6 years in both radiation oncology and then surgical oncology....

and started working for MT service right after my stint and then from home.  I absolutely love transcribing oncology even though it's sad, it is not as sad as physically seeing the patients in person.....

JMHO.....