I'm newer TT

Posted By: TT-er on 2007-06-28
In Reply to: How can anybody make a decent line count there - mw

but I don't see a problem making line count. You only need 11,000 in a pay period. I think most do at least that and probably more.

Volume fluctuates, as it does at every place that I have worked, especially in the summer and the last couple weeks of the year. I'm flexible and thankful that my supervisor is also. It comes in handy when an emergency comes up with one of the kids or I lose power during a storm, as they allow you to make up time (lines) lost if you want.

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TKU very much. I had seen the newer discussion,
but hit server errors when I tried to go back to May, so had not seen the older link. Now that one has me reconsidering.

Probably best to contact some of the new/newer MTs over there
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Make 8 and 9 as a newer MT with no CMT.
I graduated Career Step just over a year ago. I was making 7 cpl for the past year, but just switched companies and now make 8 cpl for a clinic account and 9 cpl for an acute care account.

There is definitely newer information and ALL IS BAD.

She is so desperate to find someone who hasn't heard....I agree with other poster...RUN.

sign me Been there, done that. Learned my lesson to listen!

I realize this also, but MOST newer computers..sm
do not even have the 15 pin serial ports (game ports) any longer. I had purchased a 15 pin game port pedal and used it less than 6 months because my sound card went out and I had to get a new one. I could not find ANY that had a 15 pin game port any longer and ended up having to buy a whole new pedal (usb) in order to work. USB is what is mostly used these days. If she needs a 15 pin footpedal I will gladly sell her mine... been there and did that.

Not true. All desktops have it...newer ones too.
It's on the back.

It is the attitude of newer MTs (not all) such as yourself that cause these problems. sm
Companies do not treat us like sweatshops, hounding us for production. They expect us to be professionals and perform the work at the times we are scheduled, without exception, and produce a certain amount of work. Those production standards have actually gone down over the past 20 years, and our tools to produce more have gone up substantially.

Decent wage? While our pay has not gone up in the past 10 years, $45,000 - $50,000 per year is still more than decent.

Time to get up to speed? Court reporter are required to be at certain speeds to progress to the next level when they are in school and when they take their state boards to be certified, they are required to be a certain speed. FYI: That speed is the equivalent of 125 wpm with 100% accuracy required. There is no time to increase; this is their starting point.

I teach at a local business school part time that also teaches court reporting. More than 75% of the ones who start court reporting cannot get up to speed or cannot take the pressure, so they either quit entirely or TRANSFER TO MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION because the standards are not as high. For those that make it through the court reporting program, it can take 3 or 4 times to pass the state boards and only 50% actually do so.

So, we need to look at what we complain about. The standards to be a medical transcriptionist, a professional responsible for a direct line of patient care, are quite low compared to other fields.

Part of this is due to new MTs who come into the field to make a quick buck and to work at home while acting like stay-at-home moms.

an upgrade? mean newer version?
This should not be an end of the year thingee seems to me. I would ask what exactly an upgrade means. No reason not to ask for the facts. Does it mean an upgraded version of MedRite or upgrade to a newer type platform or just what does it mean.

Anyone using the newer software with Transolutions, not the DOS stuff? How
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I did get double; I'm talking about newer hires.
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Sadly, most newer computers do not have the 9-pin port.
I have had to buy USB adapter to which some do and do not work correctly with this footpedal. Is this by chance an Escription account? Thus far, this is the only software that I have found which requires such an obsolete port. I bought a laptop assuming it would have the 9-pin port but it did not so I tried at least four adapter until I found one that works.

any new/newer hires who didn't get extra holiday pay will now get...
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She's correct, folks, most newer computers DO NOT come with serial ports

You can order a computer with one, but in general they do not come as a standard item on non-custom-built computers any longer. The USB port is standard now, but not the DB9/COM/serial port she is referring to.

You can purchase a PCI card (which is what the COM/serial port is part of) from Amazon for about $20 though and install it yourself, thus giving you a COM/serial/DB9 port for the 9-pin foot pedal.

So....she is correct...MOST (not all) of the computers newer than about 4-5 years old DO NOT come with a serial/COM/DB9 port standard -- not on the back on the computer or anywhere else for that matter. I

n fact, when I was looking for a PCI card to so that I could install it on my own computer (which is 3 years old), the guys at the computer store wanted to know why I wanted to go backwards (as far as technology) instead of foreward (to upgrade) -- stating that people just don't use serial ports anymore. They said that the USB port had pretty much eliminated the need for a serial/COM/DB9 port in most instances.

Too bad that isn't true when it comes to some MT platforms and wavplayers.

Did search on Futurenet and got mostly 2004 and 2005 stuff. Anybody with newer info? nm