My line count suffers the older I get -
Posted By: Amanda on 2009-03-25
In Reply to: Speed - Curious
I used to be a high producer consistently hour after hour, but as I near 40 and have been doing this for 15+ years, I notice my production even when the work is there is not quite what it used to be.
I think that we just naturally slow down as we age and cannot physically do what we can at that young age. People say that typing is not physical labor - but I beg to differ in some aspects. My bones and joints and muscles are just as worn out at the end of the day as they were when I was doing physical labor in a mill.
Now, I am not dead tired, but it does have a huge impact on our bodies to do this job and the wear and tear causes the slow down - Just my opinion!
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I thought I noticed this happening the other day, but figured I just wasn't paying attention. Today I definitely noticed it. For some reason it changed it's mind and took 8 lines off my line count. What the heck?
Am not really ecstatic with the way things are going anyway and then this confuses me.
Please, someone have a realistic explanation so I don't feel paranoid and cheated here.
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I figure my own line count, I am an IC. I use gross line count now, so the 65-character line count is a new thing for me. I know they divide the characters by total lines and just wanted to make sure that was the correct procedure to figure -
thanks for the help too!!!
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It is TTS. Did you have a bad experience with that company? I haven't had any problems, seem very friendly and helpful there.
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Thanks but I'm really not awesome. The main trick is to sit down in the chair, buckle up and WORK. Reminds me of one of my stories (everything reminds me of a story in MT).HAHA: Once I changed jobs...ddi, inc. actually...and I was telling my husband I was about to go job hunting again and I was fixin' to call them up and give them what for because I had never worked at a job where I absolutely could not get a line count. Being the Wise One that he is, he suggested that I write down every time I got up and make a log so I could use this to tell them how hard I was working for how little money. I was hoping he would forget about suggesting that but nooooooo....when he came home from work he just had to ask me how my day had gone. To my shame I had to fess up that while I was signed in to work 10 hours out of that day, I actually had only 2 hours of actual working time!!!!! I corrected that little problem and poof....my line count soared. Just as an aside I ended up working 7 years for ddi (until they sold out to the big M) and I made great money and not bragging, but I'm talking $50,000+.
BTW my production won't be so good today....let's see...I've had several long phone conversations, cleaned house, done a couple loads of laundry, taken care of my surgically impaired husband, fed the livestock, piddled around on the MT boards.......and typed. BUT I've been signed on to work all that time since 7:15 a.m. and my line count is right around 700 anyhow....good enough for P/T I reckon but I agreed to 4 hours a day and I'll make up the lost time that I spent doing other stuff besides being buckled up in the chair.
I don't do 3000 lines consistently...matter-of-fact...I do it seldom because I am P/T. The only reason I do it is when the account is out of TAT and I try to be a good employee and help any way I can....including working weekends because most people don't want to work weekends and I don't care....otherwise, the accounts go somewhere else and there you go....then we all have something to complain about.... like no work at all. My point is, I CAN do 3000 lines and so too can anyone else, it's really no great feat. I'm fortunate that I'm at the point in life that I do MT because I want to....it actually cost me a good bit in taxes this year too, so financially I'd probably have been better off not working.
The first suggestion I would make toward increasing the line count is see above.....check how you're working...it may surprise you. Second no matter that it's easy to make corrections on the computer, it wasn't so easy to make corrections on a manual typewriter with 7 carbon copies, so work to improve the accuracy of your typing. May not seem like much but every time you have to correct something either by backspacing or with spellcheck, you're using a second or two and those seconds add up to minutes. Then, of course, make full use of the ShortHand program......this from the person who was the last one dragged screaming and kicking to learn to use the computer.
Happy typing!
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I'm a regular reader, seldom post. This discussion seems to go on and on and keeps popping up. I'm in a  mood this morning so here's what I have to say about that.
A little background.....I'm an old MT; ya know, social security queen, so I work P/T. I've worked for so many companies I can't remember all of 'em and I've been MTing so long I forget how long. I've been paid by the character, by the line, by the page, by the 1000 words and maybe some more ways I have forgotten.
The above being said, it is impossible to cheat me on a line count. I know pretty much what I've typed before I check my line count. When I check the line count if it is significantly off, I have a problem with that. That happened once with TT when I started working on a new account, which was the ichart thing. I immediately said, HEY??!!!!??? and was told about the problem with Dictaphone. Problem fixed, problem solved. No problem. And, not bragging, but I'm one of those folks who has and can pop out 3000 lines in a day; that is an 8 hour (or more likely 6 hours working time) day.
Now. Is TT perfect? Nope. My only real complaint is many times emails go unanswered but hey, I'm a smart cookie and if I don't get an answer....well, I just figure out what to do and DO it.
As for the line counting........if I felt the line count was unfair and had to waste my valuable time re-counting with TT or any other company well...color me gone.
My advice: Get off this board and get on the TT platform...you'll make more spendable cash..... which is where I'm going right now.
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line count because I know that varies from person to person? What platform do you use? Is it MT friendly?? meaning not wasting time putting in demographics... You can email me if you want, ether way, thanks!
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I easily do over 2000 lines a day on my ER account, and all of the demographics are already filled in, so I just make sure that it is the right patient and go right to typing. Just this past weekend, I did over 2800 lines in 1 shift. I work on ExText and couldn't be happier.
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On the Review tab, in the Proofing group, click Word Count.
Microsoft has a website below with Word 2007 Help and How-to. You can enter what you are needing in the search bar at top left and it will go to it.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/FX100649251033.aspx
This is the actual line count part, see bottom of page.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA012303581033.aspx?pid=CH100626221033#5
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Been there almost 4 months. I'm on an all ER account and average around 20,000 lines a pay period.
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Thanks for your reply. Yes, subtracting the 133 lines were gross lines. So I calculated the document like those lines weren't even there. I know everyone uses a 65-char. line but actually in Microsoft Tools, when I divide the total number of gross lines that it says for my document into the total character amount including spaces, I get an average of 45 characters per line. Could that be right?? Where does 65 come from -- the industry standard? I am just baffled at how to charge for this work now and what formula to use without cheating myself. What do you think?
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I just checked out one of my Word documents using MS Tools, which has in the past conflicted with the line counting program that I use (Abacus). Anyway, it said that I had 48 lines, whereas I counted 42 (by hand, gross lines). Now, when I took the total characters with spaces count and divide by 65, I get 26.96923077 lines. When I divide my total characters with spaces by the 48 gross lines it said I have, I get 36.52083333 characters per line (Yes, you're 45 characters per line would be correct, so you are now losing by 20 characters per line, which definitely adds up and is why I suggested earlier that you give them your new rate at 2+ cpl higher.) From reading posts here on this site over the past couple of years, I have read a couple of times that the 65-character count came about because using a standard typewriter, which had a Courier New font, there are 65 characters on a line.
Personally, what I would do in your situation would be to figure how many lines are in the template based on the 65-character count (I would say the number is going to be at least 1/3 less than the 133 gross lines -- as you can see, that counting method cut my lines almost in half, from the 48 to 26.96923077!) I assume you normally count your lines using the MS Tools word count, and if that is the case it would probably be easiest to just get your 65-character count and subtract your new (improved!) template character count from that. I have one account that I run the invoice in Abacus and then manually make changes that I am unable to produce using the program.
Hope I did not ramble too much and the info is helpful to you. I am curious as to why they decided to do this (guessing someone informed them of the standard line) and if they were planning to pay you a higher rate. Each MT has their own set of circumstances, and I certainly understand not wanting to lose an account/income, but I really would not let anyone get away with changing our original agreement based on gross lines if there is not a rate increase involved as well.
Good luck! I do hope things work out for the best for you.
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Please do not feel bad at all. I am in the same boat and have been there longer than you. I have not quite made the daily quota yet. This is the first time this has happened to me in my whole career as an MT. I have really been doubting myself lately. I just wish I could figure out why this is happening to me. 
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It's not a matter of ME not being diversied. I have done acute are in the past. Many different work types including ORs. I was told to start on clinic and far as I can you rarely can make a good line count that way. On the letters you are typing quite a bit. Filling in demographics and also address (looking them etc). I really slows you down.
Your line count?
I'm training for them tomorrow morning, and that's what the training manual says.
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