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your busy day to post that.

Life is waaaaaaaaaay too short!  We have the option to work from home, so it makes it easier to do back-breaking line counts. 

I absolutely refuse to sit and wait for work.  You're just a number at these nationals. 

If you're lucky enough to sub for a small company, so be it. 

I like being my own boss and giving myself an hour off or a day off or whatever else off.  What else can we do?  We need vacations and breaks just like the healthcare professionals we transcribe for do.    

But - all I can get is dial-up in my area.  Also I cannot work weekends due to family obligations, but I appreciate the information and most of all your time in getting it to me.

K

Trust me I do work for the money regardless of what account I am on.  I am tired of writing this just to reply to that one response I got lol.  I is not showing up on the thread.  HERE I GO AGAIN....

Producing:  I produce extremly high lines counts without the help of a progam such as IT and I get surpising remarks on it such as I bow down before you from coworkers which is one example.  So, I think I am doing well in that regard.  I consitently produce 160-170 lines an hour and always improving little by little, again, all without the help of a program.

QA:  My QA has not dropped below 99% in quite some time and consistently is 100% on a pretty regular basis with 5 being pulled almost daily with so many lines I produce (I work overtime constantly).

Lastly:  I am referring to jumping through hoops because that is exactly what it is.  I am not talking about being put on a harder account to improve myself and my skills which would be great.  I know and have spoken to a level 2 (with 17 years experience in acute care) who works 5 different accounts a day consistently and rarely gets her primary account and only for a whopping 7.5 cpl.  I could make that just by staying where I am at level 1 there.  I know also this is true becaue I enquired on how to get to the next step because I foolishly thought I was ready, haha haha.  Boy was I wrong.  I would have to learn 2 different accounts and 1 backup and any other account that would need me.  That already sounds to me like I would be losing money.

Finally:  I thought that just by being great where I am would constitute some kind of gratitude or reward without jumping through hoops.  I am sure there is such a thing of a company thinking you are doing a great job and people actually get raisees for doing the same thing they have always done.  Just not this profession I guess.

Thanks for all the great advice other than the advice that I was working less and wanted more and with no goals of wanting to be anything more.  Trust me I could work no harder for them and I will continue to do so until I find something that recognizes what a great job I do and even then I will keep them part time.  I love the people there and even my account, but I refuse to be told I am not working hard enough.   

PS:  I tested for Transcend with a hard account and the recruiter quoted I passed every test and did great.  But, the down side was they only offered me 7 cpl which is more than I make now only by 0.5 cnts and it would not be worth switching for that and it is also a lot more than I got hired in at Spheris, so I think that proves I have grown with such little experience and have a nack for the field.

You all are great and give great advice.  Thanks for all the replies.  This had better go through this time.  I cannot write this for a 4th time.  

word that the production rate will increase.  The reality?  It doesn't.  I have been doing VR where I work for about a year now and even after the system was trained properly it takes JUST AS MUCH IF NOT MORE time to edit versus straight-typing the document.

You must always remember that when the company presents a plan and its assurances that you will make more money in the end, YOU WON'T.  They may (cheaper labor) but YOU will not.  That's guaranteed.

HOW RUDE!  It's wonderful that you are able to tell what others are thinking or what they want to do.

Who are YOU to tell an MT to go somewhere else?  The poster has a right to her/his opinion just as much as you do, although she seems to be able to express herself with somewhat more class that you are capable of.

If you have a job already, if possible, do not quit until you work at the other job long enough to know that you are in a better situation.  I have read glowing reports about a company and then signed on to work and thought it stunk to high heaven, and vice versa ... have seen companies trashed that I thought were wonderful.  Each person's experience is unique.

Of course, if you read several people saying they were paid late or not at all, THAT kind of thing, I would certainly avoid that like the plague.  Although I do enjoy what I do, I cannot afford to work for free.

I work for Keystrokes and SmartMed and would be happy to recommend either one if the TTS thing does not work out for you.  Of course, the same thing goes for them -- some love them, some hate them.

Good luck! 

Do you use the mouse or the keyboard to maneuver through your VR documents?  Which one do you think is faster?