Well, I took the plunge...
Posted By: Patiencep on 2007-08-22
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Just finished TT's exam, Whew, I sure have gotten used to being able to manipulate reports with pedal. Pretty extensive exam. We shall see.
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Do I detect a touch of underlying hostility? What is making you so angry? Something I said? Hope it's okay with you if I answer your snappy and slightly snide question.
Nice and fair are important to me. If they weren't, I would not have asked that question in the original message. For me, fair-minded would be that quality where mgmt would engage themselves in such efforts as oversight of cherry-picking or load leveling amongst transcriptionists during either unusually slow or busy times. It can be done and has been done. I have worked for those who do and those who don't and PARDON ME, but I prefer the former. Another thing that comes to mind would be something on the order of not taking complete advantage of a good experienced Transcriptionist by throwing all the ESLs onto her desk while failing to give less experienced ones a chance to learn this part of the craft...the hard way, like all of us do. Fair-minded would be someone who is out front at all times, letting me know what to expect, good or bad, so I can make informed decisions about my life as their employee...or not. Fair-minded has direct effects on my pocketbook, so excuse me for asking this question.
As for nice, here's the deal. I am inclined to stay more motivated when I work for nice people who are not snippy, snide and sarcastic, for example. Don't think that makes me much different than anyone else who does this for a living. Usually when someone is nice to me, I tend to be nice back...and it makes for less tension on a day-to-day basis. That is just about as far as I care to take my personal relationship with my employer. I like to reserve my stress and energy (and there is plenty of that to go around) for my dictators and my transcription...don't like to share that with undeserving management.
About the platform. Don't need the best. Need good enough. Don't expect everyting to be exactly perfect...anymore than I want someone to expect absolute perfection from me. There is no such thing.
As for the multiple accounts, Ms. emptyMT. I've been at this an awful long time. I get very bored very quickly with the same old dictators, same old reports, same old stuff day after day. I like a good challenge. It was HARD to get good at this. I would like to stay that way. For example, trying to pretend that ESLs are part of that is an exercise in futility. I take the good with the bad...all of it, and try to make the best of it so it can make the best of me. Don't you get it?
I can tell you this much. When I have at least 3 accounts, I don't run out of work...I don't get empty, Ms. emptyMT. It is job security and it is one less headache to worry about in the long run. Don't have to be so fearful of work slow downs. By the way, I am also not so stupid as to not be able to figure out whether or not a company can keep me sufficiently busy. If not, I'm gone. I can be working within a day or two if necessary and I find that fairly comforting. I'm not scared of hard work...it pays off.
I took the plunge
It was the biggest mistake I've made as an MT.
you'd be perfect; take the plunge!
who cares if they are fair or nice...if that does not bother you, why not work for MQ? they have the best platform, even better than Precyse. You don't mind working on 7 or 8 accounts, do you? You should do fine, you will really like it...
I took the plunge too ... definitely time for a change. Thanks to all for the input. nm
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