Re: I can now add TV star to my resume

HUH?

I've always known what an asset my work was to my clients. I don't need a CMT to reassure me of that. I know it because of the feedback I get and have for years. I also know that despite a physician appreciating the quality of my work, the work went to India. Despite fact this doctor was not my client, he did tell me a very nice thank you on his last tape - something he certainly didn't have to do as he didn't even know me except by my work. Yet, despite that - poof. It doesn't stop me from trying to do excellent work, but it has just reinforced the fact that no matter how good you are, it doesn't matter.

You're in bed with AAMT - anything you say is going to be heard with that in mind IMHO.

Jay Vance wrote:
Rae, I didn't bring AAMT into this discussion and had no intention of
doing so. Nothing I'm saying is dependent on AAMT. It's the working
MTs who hold the power. I personally have found AAMT to be a very
valuable resource and asset to me both personally and professionally
because of the great people I've met and contacts I've made. But
that's neither here nor there as far as MTs standing up for themselves
and not being afraid to be "accountable" for risk management/quality
control. If we want to command professional-level compensation, we
can't be afraid of professional-level responsibility, in my humble
opinion. I don't lose one wink of sleep over it, personally. It's
what I do. It would be like me being afraid for someone to know I'm a
Christian because I don't want anyone to "hold me accountable" for my
actions.

While I don't always go in for a lot of the self-help pop psychology
stuff I hear, I do think there is some truth in the quotation from
Marianne Williamson's book "A Return To Love" which appears in the
movie "Akeelah and the Bee:"

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness
that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are
a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel
insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were
born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not
just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As
we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others."

I wonder what would happen if every MT truly caught hold of that
attitude?

Jay


RaeMorrill wrote:

I know there are plenty who tried with AAMT, Jay. They got the cold
shoulder. Now AAMT is a joke. Everyone knows it but those who have been
assimilated. I'm not surprised, however, to see you right in there for
some reason.

They've now discounted the credential CMT to foreign MTs, so that now
even those who wholeheartedly supported it for years are about to drop
it. Yet AAMT (or should I say Airheads Inc) are not listening.

Jay Vance wrote:

"If this is so important - and I believe wholeheartedly it is - why
hasn't AAMT made this a point from the beginning? I know doctors didn't
just start making errors in dictation in the computer age of
transcription."

Good question. Maybe part of it has to do with the fact that MTs as a
whole have historically not been very aggressive when it comes to
standing up for ourselves and the importance of what we do. Hopefully
that's changing now. But it's going to take more than just AAMT
putting out a position paper. Until MTs en masse draw a line in the
sand, things are not going to change on a large scale.

Jay



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