Can someone recommend a good text expansion program? Thanks!

• Can someone recommend a good text expansion program? Thanks! - MTAL
  • I've used both PC SH & Instant Text and they are comparable ... would love to hear comparison (s - dandelion
  • Program - Tina
  • I also use PC Shorthand... - lms
  • Shorthand - Karen
    • I too recommend Shorthand... - CrankyBeach
      • I recommend shorthand too - me2
        • Anyone know a link - AlabamaMT
    • I'd suggest InstantText: www.fitaly.com - Cathy
      • I also vote for Instant Text. nm - Cj

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

to even my worst enemy.   I was in QA, had some of the worst MTs because they could not get and keep good MTs and a warm body was better than nobody.  Management changed frequently.  The CEO was so slimy that I felt like I needed a shower after talking with him.  I can't remember her position, but she was one step above QA manager would send out e-mails with new terms/medications and they would be incorrect.  I've been in this business for 22 years.  I do about 85% ESL.  I can do some of the worst ESLs (don't like to, but I can), but the accounts I had were beyond horrendous.  Between the horrible dictators and the sound quality there wasn't enough money to make me stay.   They still call me about every 6 months and ask me to come back.  Only if my kids were going hungry would I do that and I think I would try prostitution first.  I believe in producing a quality product, but I also have bills to pay and I have a life outside of work.  I was not willing to work 12+ hours a day and be stressed out every day over the crappy work.   There is so much better out there.  Unfortunately there aren't a lot of jobs available currently with the mergers, VR, and offshore work. SS is always hiring and there is a reason for that.  I can assure you it isn't because they are getting a lot of new accounts. 

If you spend time going through the archives you'll see posts where MTs didn't listen to the negative posts and accepted positions, only to come back within a month or so and say that all the negative stuff was absolutely true and they would apologize for not listening to us.  

After that idiot that came on saying how they fired us because we weren't good enough, etc. I put SS lower on the list than they already were, which was hard to do when they were already at the bottom.  That person was not there when I was, did not know who I was, did not know what position I held and anything they said was because they evidently weren't taking their meds and there was no shred of truth to it.  This person attacked anyone who said anything negative about SS, not just me.  I understand that person is no longer there though. 

or is it low?  I've recently had to start looking for a new job and am trying to figure out what a good cpl rate is for someone with my experience:  13 years of mostly acute care work.  It seems kind of low to me but maybe not.  I've been an IC for the last five years or so, but kind of wanted to get away from it for a while as I can never seem to be discplined enough for my taxes.  The 7 cpl text and 3.5 cpl VR is employee status, the only benefit right now would be PTO with insurance in a few months possibly.  I worked at my last company forever and only made 8.5 cpl as an IC, so all of this is kind of new to me.

Thanks!

I am interested in current information on Soft Script.  Is it possible to make good money ($40,000 year/full time). 

Is the programming easy? 

Sound quality good?  I was told it was good.

Thanks for all your help.  Please email me if you wish.  Thank you.

Deventure I know has Escription but I am not sure if they hire PT or not. 

can someone tell me how to convert my expansion file from Medquist so I can use it at MDI???  You can E mail if possible. 

Thanks

If you don't mind not having any benefits or any hopes of receiving a raise then thehy would be okay.

My main two concerns are a decent platform to work in and a decent medical insurance plan.  But, you're right--there's obviously some other things that I need to consider too.

I know that every company will have it's advantages and disadvantages, but does anyone know of any companies where the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

I currently work on Cornerstone doing mostly letters and the occasional op and ER notes. By far, I spend more time looking up addresses, time I am not paid for. I would not mind it if the pay was fair but it is not. So, I plan to look at other companies because I can no longer afford working for them.

In the beginning I had a somewhat decent account where I could meet the line count but on my new account with more than half my work being letters I waste a lot of time having to look up information and then inserting it into the document.

Another thing is the number of upgrades, and I use that term loosely, have caused my computer to crash. So I end up wasting more time.

Also, raises are as rare as hens teeth. And, if you do get a raise they end up putting you on an account where you cannot make any lines, so you cannot really call it a raise.

This week I plan to dust off my resume and start sending it out. If nothing else I can get something PT and then work into FT and then get away from Spheris.

Sorry for rambling, but I would not recommend Spheris even to newbies and especially not to the seasoned MT.

To put it bluntly, their platform SUCKS ASS.   

I just tell people that expect to make absolutely nothing for the first 10 years.  LOL

My pay has doubled since I left my hourly job; or should I say I was pushed out of my hourly job with outsourcing hanging over my head.  I was to train my replacement as so-called just for back-up but I saw the writing on the wall, so I left.  I was only making 13 dollars an hour and that was 3 years ago.  I started at 7 dollars an hour 17 years ago.  I'm making a lot more now and have a lot less stress for sure than working on-site and having to do everyone else's job with no one to do mine.

I'm happy MT'ing.  I do not recommend it to others though as I tell them it takes years to get acquainted with the terminology. 

As far as telling people to come to this board, they have no clue what all of these abbreviates mean especially the company names.  It's too confusing for someone who doesn't know our world to come in this message board and make anything out of it.

They have some weird system for line counting and you never can quite figure it out.  Lines are VERY hard to get and pay isn't great.  Many have left because they just can't make any money.  They are also training people in Trinidad (I think) how to do transcription, so guess where they jobs are going to go eventually.   They haven't been allowed to post on this board for that reason, but since MTStars is allow U.S. based offshoring companies to post, they show up.