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It is, but doing a Monster/CareerBuilder search shows that inhouse jobs

Posted By: ARE being offered in the $10-13/hr range. Up to yo on 2007-10-24
In Reply to: Opinions: Do You Think $12.00 An Hour Is A Lousy Hourly Wage For An Experienced Medical Transcripti - David

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Several jobs on Monster & CareerBuilder for inhouse office jobs down there through an
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Monster search of diff. jobs showing range
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I would try Careerbuilder.com or Monster.com. nm
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What about your local hospitals, Manpower, employment agency, Monster, CareerBuilder, etc. nm
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For pay? Ad search shows 7-10 cpl with and without spaces. No hourly pay for at-home MT
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Google search shows TigerDirect and belkin.com both carry this. nm
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Yes, because you do the jobs and they get sent off as soon as you spellcheck and the next one shows
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...shows up in your que with the next 1 or 2 jobs waiting for you. nm
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The Job Seekers board shows jobs that are available. You can
post your resume securely in the Resume Bank.  If you do not want to give a lot of detailed information, you can post with the name Available MT or something of that nature and in the body give a brief description of your experience.  When you enter your email address it is not visible to potential employers, but they can send you an email.  Only when you reply will they know your email address.  It's a great way to put yourself out there without COMPLETELY putting yourself out there.  If an employer is looking for someone with your skills and experience, they will contact you.  Good Luck!
yes, those jobs are out there, but you really need to search for them.
Takes a lot of time and energy to find, but they are around.
Search on the Companies or New Student board for course info. Jobs are available all over the US and
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Yoko Ono wears designer clothes and shows up at all the fashion shows. Phony.
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The ad can be found on careerbuilder.com and is there all the time. nm
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Try monsterjobs.com or careerbuilder.com and submit your resume. nm
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Now that Monster.com has been hacked and

confidential and personal data compromised, I am not confortable posting my resume anywhere, but really am seriously looking for a job with a decent company.  I have years of experience in transcription, management, and other areas, but right now my hands are aching because of transcription and I need to move on.   And I would just like to work for a company where someone says thank you once in a while and if you do extra projects.. 


 


 


They don't have the pay posted with the job? Chk Monster or the
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According to the Answers.com section of Monster.com
"Dr. Phil McGraw won a football scholarship and played as a linebacker for the University of Tulsa, but when he was injured he quit and transferred to Midwestern State University. He graduated with a B.A. in psychology in 1975, and went on to get his PhD. from the University of North Texas in 1979. He is also a pilot, with a multi-engine rating."

. . . . and what are your educational credentials, my dear?
Only 1 cup, but I'm addicted to monster drinks. nm
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I get Monster drink from the corner store...

These really work for me--ingredients below


Carbonated water, sucrose, glucose, citric acid, taurine, natural flavors, sodium citrate, l-carnitine, panax ginseng root extract, ascorbic acid, caffeine, sodium chloride, niacinamide, riboflavin, guarana seed extract, inositol, glucuronalactone, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanobalmin.


I'd give this monster back to her mother
Bad seed. They might be able to keep this evil beast at bay for awhile but sooner or later she's going to cause a disaster of some type if she hasn't already.

OUT!
saw it on monster-- "a too good to be true" job description-
for info and see what kind of a response I get. Don't want to send my resume unless it seems legit. I have 2 jobs now, just fishing for something better.
Why Employees Move On (Monster) link below

Beow is a page on Monster.com which may interest you. Its called Job Satisfaction Survey, and reveals Why Employees Move On. You can find it at http://career-advice.monster.com/career-change/job-satisfaction-survey/Home.aspx (click on this link, or copy and paste it into your web browser).


This should be good for a discussion or two...


Just DONT start a Monster account!
I did, and first of all, nothing that even vaguely resembles what I wanted to find ever comes up. Instead, my inbox is swamped with emails from them about jobs for software engineering, nursing, receptionist, etc. keep coming in, even though I was very precise about ONLY wanting to see MT & legal transcription jobs.

Tons of spyware, too. The ads for Viagra, Rolex watches and porn tripled after I joined Monster.

So finally I got bored with them and wanted to UN-subscribe. There is NO PLACE on their website where you can do that. All you can do is make your account inactive. (Though they CLAIM if you call a phone number and give them lots of person information [yeah, RIGHT! In their DREAMS!], they will unsubscribe you.)

So I finally put their website on my SPAM list, and hopefully that'll stop their emails.

DON'T put all your information on this company's website! Heaven only knows who they're giving it to.
My son loves Monster drinks before football/basketball practice. I think they are nasty.
I don't drink coffee, but I have to have my Coca Cola first thing in the morning and one more halfway through day.  So I guess I am a little dependent on caffeine!
supposed to be, after people lose their jobs, they are forced to take part-time, lower-paying jobs..
with little to no benefits. service jobs. where are you going to work in a few years, when Medical Transcription is replaced by technology? McDonald's, Walmart? you really going to like that?
I think an inhouse job would be the way to so
as you usually get paid hourly. Working at home is not that great. I found that out the hard way. I am just doing it until I can find an inhouse job, they are so rare. Going inhouse is better in every way. YOu do not have to deal with "Do it this way this day and do it another way the next" as is Amphion's practice, along with many others. Also, the inhouse job would give you valuable experience. You can always go back to working at home. You would only gain in experience by working inhouse. Good luck!
Inhouse
she probably wouldn't be making $41 an hour.
And Inhouse
Inhouse you will type for 2 hours, then get a 15 minute break, then type for 2 hours, get a 30 minute lunch and then type for 2 hours then another 15 minute break, then type for 2 hours and go home.  According to my friend who works inhouse they rarely get their 15 minute breaks more than once a day, so even working inhouse they only usually get about 45 minutes and they only make $16 an hour.  Being at home on production you can decide how much to make if you use your Expanders and actually type instead of surfing the net, etc.
I did go through that with my last inhouse position ...
and after I quit and went home to work for my present employers, I realized what the most significant factor was for my burnout: Working with the absolutely rancid attitude of unhappy coworkers. True, I should not have allowed them to get to me but they were unhappy over ANYTHING. Nothing could make them happy and all they did was gripe and b****.

I eventually quit going to lunch and breaks with them because I just didn't want to hear anymore negative spin on whatever was going on. Of course, then I was Miss Goody-Two-Shoes because I wouldn't fraternize with them. There was already tension enough over production. I got to where I would drive around and around the block before parking...then I would be late a lot because I could hardly bring myself to drive to work. I felt sick at my stomach as I got up, knowing I was going to walk in that office where such emotional poison was.

On their own, I liked these women - they could be funny, were intelligent, had a lot on their plates. But as coworkers, they were unhappy about anything that happened and just could not leave any topic alone. At lunch and breaks, they so horribly bad-mouthed the superv, the QA person, the management, the hospital policies, the equipment, the software, the incentive plan, anyone who wasn't sitting there's production, other people's dress and how they handled their family life, etc. I mean it was HORRIBLE. When I started back to college, they were mad as h*** because I got "special treatment" in their eyes. They worked whatever schedules THEY set, but apparently I wasn't allowed to do the same. I see now that they were angry because I was doing something different and progressive in my life.

Then, when I announced I was leaving I thought they would cheer because, after all, I was the outsider. Instead, they got angry. They were angry because I was leaving and they were left behind. They emailed and left voice messages a few times after I had left, asking how I was, and talking trash still about that hospital. I never called any of them back.

I'm done with that attitude. I literally cannot take it. The same issues were happening to me but I chose to look at it differently.

Making a radical change of quitting and going home into a completely different setting and controlling my own environment, pay, etc., was the key to recovery for me.

I also know that I won't be doing this much longer...THAT HELPS A LOT...LOL.

I appreciate the advice.

OFF TO WORK...
I had one when I was inhouse and loved it! sm

I just wish I could afford to get my own right now. It takes a little getting used to, but not too bad and it's soooooo comfortable. 


 


inhouse work

I am thinking about going inhouse to work for a family practice group.  What is the going rate per hour or per line?  I have 10+ years experience.  It would be working for 2 family practice physicians 25 or so hours per week.  Because I have only done IC the last few years, I don't know what to charge when taxes are taken out. 


Please advise what a reasonable hourly/line rate is .  I am not sure at this point.


Thanks


 


i used to be a coder inhouse. sm
my schooling was actually a combination of MT/coding so i had the option of either. i started out coding at a local doc office. i didn't have much of a problem with it. the cons i would say was dealing with people b*tching about the bills and medicaid pain in the *ss, but other than that was fine. i slowly picked up MT work on the side to do in the evenings part time, realized how much money i was making and eventually quit the inhouse job to go full time at home as an MT and tripled my money. not sure about coding at home so i can't help you there.
You actually WANT to go back inhouse and having to
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I have worked inhouse at
made anywhere from the $11.00 range up to $26.00 (counting production bonuses). There is a wide range. The benefits are usually much better than working at home, but I much prefer working at home and will never return to inhouse again.
I think I would stay with the inhouse job, have the
baby and take your maternity leave. While on leave, you can be looking for an at-home job, and maybe even start with them while on leave. Then, after your paid leave turn in your resignation.
Going to work inhouse again
Well, you would have someone to talk to besides your dogs and you might just enjoy the comaradie of other MTs. On the opposite side of the coin, it may just end up being a very competitive, cold and unfriendly place. You could try it and and prove yourself to to be a valuable MT and perhaps they would send you home to work like a lot of hospitals do now if in fact you would rather do that. If you find your home to be a comfort zone and enjoy your dogs, you may just not like working inhouse. It's your call and good luck
pay for inhouse position??
I have an interview in the morning for a part-time inhouse position.  What is the pay looking like working by the hour with no incentives?  I don't know what a fair offer would be and don't want to sell myself short.
I am going to work inhouse again -
I just took a part time inhouse position to supplement my at home income because I am so short... and this is not the first pay period so I am in trouble.

The inhouse position is only part time, but at least I know it is enough to pay my house payment. It is also a lot less per hour, but I want some guarantees so I can stop worrying so much.
Sorry but I am not going back inhouse.
I do well at this work. I always have. Though my income has varied a bit over the last couple of years, I am still doing very well and I don't plan to join a union or go back inhouse.

It costs hospitals more money to payroll you inhouse because of the capital expense. More and more hospitals will contract their work out as the economy squeezes on them, too.

I agree that those who are new should try to work 1-2 years inhouse first. But to say that going back inhouse is going to "save" this work? No. Completely disagree. It won't even be an option soon for the greatest majority of facility MTs.


do you have 6 years of inhouse sm
doing acute care or doctors office MTing? If you have gone from strictly office stuff to hospital acute care, that is a big transition and one that you are not gonna make a ton of money at starting out. Experience as an IC is not the thing, do you have the 6 years experience doing the same thing inhouse that you are now trying to do at home?
I did 3 jobs for a while about 3 years ago, you burn out quick, I was doing 3 MT jobs though...after
10 months I cut down to 2 as I don't like to have all my eggs in one basket.  But I am considering going down to 1 in September for my sanity, its a good steady job so financally it should not be an issue.  I have 2 right but have not worked the 1 in about 3 weeks due to some problems at their end, supposed to learn a VA account but not sure if I want to pursue it right now or not, they are waiting to hear from me at this point. I still have a lot going on with chemo, etc. so am mulling things over.  But if you have a full-time day job, then I would just go with 1 part-time MT job at night, unless 1 is during the week, and the other weekends only, then of course you will be working 7 days a week, very tiring I know.  I have been working 7 days a week for 3 years now but I do slack off now and then of course to recharge and get sleep etc. But burnout happens fast and I doubt you want to lose your day job so be careful. Good luck.
Try Piedmont - they have inhouse staff nm
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Around here, it's $9.99 per hour with inhouse for the first 6-12 months.
I'd still take it, but I'm not sure how the cost of living is where you are.
i used to but quit it to go inhouse and now am home again without it. sm
i got 2 weeks PTO a year and got paid equivalent to my production for the hourly rate, which at that time was $15.75/hr for my vacation time. had insurance too but can't recall the details. boy, i regret that now as i feel like i am working 24/7 as IC and can't afford to take time off. take off = lose money and get behind. i'm stuck, lol. gotta look for large nationals, acute care, and about 75% ESLs to get it nowadays is what i am seeing. hard choice between clinics/gravy work or PTO/insurance/ESLs/busting tail, lol.
My inhouse incentive experience
When I worked inhouse, our incentive was calculated quarterly. Our incentive was based on minutes of dictation transcribed, not lines.

We had a minimum number of minutes to average daily. Depending on how much we passed that minimum (on the quarterly average), we were assigned an hourly incentive to be paid for all regular hours worked for the next quarter.

Example: If my 1st quarter average production put me at 180 minutes of dictaiton, then I would receive an extra $8.50 an hour (in addition to my regular hourly wage) for all regular hours worked for the 2nd quarter. If I took paid time off, had a holiday off, or had overtime, it was not paid for those hours. Only for regular hours. So, if I worked my regular 40 hours weekly, I received an extra $340 a week in incentive.

Now, incentive started low, at $1.00 an hour and worked up to $10 an hour.

Last time I worked inhouse with per-line incentives, we literally got a daily line count and had a tiered set up with lines/hour average daily.
My inhouse experience was almost identical! (nm)
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I would love to work inhouse, but...
those jobs are getting scarce. I would like to know how all us newbies are supposed to start in-house when those jobs have all been outsourced.
WORKING INHOUSE NOT ALWAYS SO WONDERFUL, EITHER.

I worked in house for the only hospital corporation available in my rural area.  I expected to learn a lot.  I actually learned very little with regards to transcription.  I learned a lot about hospital politics.  They had some of the worst dictators there, and the HIM director did not like confrontation.  Also, the main task given to me was to accomplish a line rate equal to 1200 per day with spaces, at which time they would set me up to work at home.  Unfortunately, I only had 6 months in which to accomplish this.  I was flatly told that if I did not accomplish this production rate, I would be fired.  Before that happened, I found a job online, and will never return inhouse again.  I also have to say that I don't miss driving 300+ miles per week in order to do that inhouse job.  Also, I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of the hospital's tech person visiting me ad lib at home.


Now, I can't say that I'm thrilled with this profession.  I have the same concerns/complaints as the original poster of this thread.  However, comparing inhouse, with inhome, I do believe that I've learned more and gained more valuable experience through the inhome process.  Yes, I have worked many hours and more than 1 job at a time.  When I research previous jobs by a doctor, I also notice that previous jobs have been submitted with lots of errors in them.  I have shared my concerns with my manager and believe that nothing was done.  I have also complained about poor dictators and why, oh why, are these doctors still allowed to conduct themselves so poorly?  When I worked in the hospital, I noticed that the HIM director let the doctors do whatever they wished because she was afraid to confront them, like they were Gods or something.  It is my opinion that this is a major problem in our industry with regards to the people who are the liaison between the MT and the doctor.  Somewhere, a doctor has a supervisor, office manager, director, hospital administrator, etc.  If a doctor is in private practice, he may care more about the quality of his product.  But, if a doctor is affiliated with a hospital or other facility, he might just be doing a job and as long as he/she can get away with it, he/she will be as sloppy as he/she wants to be.


It is also really frustrating to be told that you have to do 150 lines/hour or more, or lose benefits or be fired or whatever.  At the same time, it takes time to really produce a good report, given the deficiencies in the dictations.  I panicked about this in the beginning, as I was doing about 50 lines per hour.  I'm happy to report that it does get better.  I also quit the job with the production quota.


Okay, I'll shut up now.


Wahh Don't give up your inhouse job! sm
They are so few and far between these days... it makes me sad :(
Trained inhouse 25 years ago. LOL :)
Never been without a great work situation. Job changes to meet new circumstances in my life.


When working inhouse I had a supv
that one time told me in a French term (had to ask for explanation) that meant I did not join in with the others there. Hmm, transcription seems to be like a 1 person job and how can you socalize and still make your incentive. Always got terrible evaluations and on ongoing eval after 10 years there she gave me an acceptable for attendance. I brought to her attention I had not missed 1 day during the entire year and I wanted an excellent for that if nothing else. She said she had not noticed. Yeh, right! The next job so much different. Very good evals but by this time I was very shy of ever getting them again.