What could be more appropriate for learning the ropes than learning how to spell? You are in for a
Posted By: oh on 2005-09-21
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Learning
All of what you say is absolutely true. I probably also am one of the higher paid MTs around today and I don't do it making 6 cpl. I have continued to learn for the past many years and will continue to learn to the last day working out my notice, that's just me. I don't think MOST new MTs are ever going to see the day they will make $25/hour or even close to that. There are reasons other than money, and I don't care to post them, that I am leaving MTing for.............gourd painting.
Learning VR.....sm
If an MT with many years of experience on EXText and a variety of other platforms were determined to take a PT job to go ahead and learn VR, which would you think is the best platform to do that on, and which company would you recommend for doing that? Any and all information appreciated! TIA....
learning VR ?
If you continue to use your mouse tomake corrections, then there is nothing to learn.
But if you decide to use 'hot keys' or 'short cuts', then there is.
It is said that letting go of the mouse usage, will speed you up. I do not know if this has been proven yet.
I am a 'mouse' person and I just cannot let go of my 'mouse.'
I assume a lot of MTs are like that.
Maybe there busy learning their new
I think someone posted before that they were getting like 9 new accounts. So, maybe everyone is tied up and can't really take a coffee break. I'd be stroking those keys too if I was making 9.5 cpl (their starting rate per one post). I'm glad there's at least one company out there that pays well. I really don't think though that someone working there for only three months could really have anything bad to say. I think someone else posted that KS promises lower health insurance premiums soon so that is a good thing.
I am interested in learning more...
Please email me at dmorganzack@yahoo.com
Any new account will be a learning
Just mix it in with your experience all around. You should be fine.
Learning curve
I'm not going to toot the speech making money horn, but I think it's a learning curve. I'm having a hard time giving up my mouse but still doing about 3 times the work and saving my wrists in the process. TT has offered a refresher course and paying us for taking it, I think that's not only smart on their part but good for TT MTs. Speech is here to stay and I need to suck it up and go with the flow, still too many years before I can retire.
VR learning i s a myth
VR is not taught by MT in most cases because it is *back-end* voice recognition program. VR can be taught by the dictator on *front-end programs but most docs don't care to spend the time doing it. After 1-1/2 years of doing VR, and being told it would *learn* over time, I found out that was a lie. I have brought to bosses' attention the same errors in docs' formats, the same errors in punctuation, numberint, etc, etc, as requested and nothing has changed. I just do the best I can, knowing that the platform/program I work on will never improve.
I'm with you. I'm willing to take a temporary dip in pay while learning, but MQ better leave
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I love your posts - I'm learning from them...sm
Thank you again for taking the time to type this very informative post. These types of posts actually help many people, I do believe. Like you, I do all my own MTSO work and have not yet had to farm any out. My MDs are great in that they all pay me by the 15th of the following month. I pretty much demand that because the work is all back in their offices by the 30th or 31st of that prior month....so wanting to get paid by the 15th of the following month is reasonable. I am sorry for your delinquent client but my docs know I only bill out once a month and that cuts down on the billing part of being an MTSO.
What I HATE about being an MTSO....is all those receipts you have to keep all year long...but it's not the keeping of the receipts, it's the TAX PREP that we face within the next 6-12 weeks....oh what a mess that always is....not a mess - but so time consuming that I do hire someone to do that clerical stuff to get things ready for the TAX people......my daughter is the one I hire (and yep, I do pay her well to do that part of the work).
Again, thank you so much for your informative posts. Be well....
Too soon to really say. I felt I did okay the first day given the learning curve.
I am hoping my production will increase by at least 150-200 lines a day over the first few days and that should more than bring me up to speed.
Add me to the list of those interested in learning more
nm
I'd love to learning kickboxing
Are you in LA?
Learning curve? You mean to learn VR?
It was about 2 days for me, not much time. Is this what you mean?
IT has a looong learning curve. Am using it and you are right. I have to stop and think before ever
But, am picking up speed and accuracy is improving. It was either learn to use it or type everything out.
Thanks! Yes, I figure if I start out learning the hardest
it can only go up from here. My production is in the toilet though and being new, I have no idea how much of that to attribute to being new or having to rewind some ESL dictations a hundred times :(
Then provide samples and learning tools.
We are all only human. The doctor is supposed to be reviewing and signing these reports they dictate. Are they not? If they sign off a report that has an error, that then makes the dictating physician liable, not the MT. This docking for errors sounds like another scheme to make money off of hard-working MTs. tsk tsk
learning Escription/Edit Script
I work for Focus also and there is nothing hard about learning Escription---it is very user friendly. The test is learning the shortcut keys to become a faster editor. There is a website that comes with this platform that will teach you the shortcuts, plus there is a great forum board to learn from other MTs. I love the platform, but still working on speed.
Come on, learning correct spelling is important. No offense meant.
nm
i work 3 part-time jobs now. it can be confusing if you are learning both at the same time, but sm
other than that not a problem for me. best to get one down before starting to other or you might become overwhelmed.
Horrible spell check, had to C&P onto word doc. to use spell checker. Slow, used ADT which did not
:+
I know how to spell, but you dont have to know how to spell so much
as how to look things up.
Why are you cutting on me? I know how to spell. I won my school spelling bee and went to state.
The poster above me was putting people down that cant spell.
You can work at McDonald's but I am doing fine with what I am doing.
Thanks anyway for your wonderful advice but i dont need it
Can you spell?
"capatalize"
WRONG!!
I can't believe it either, especially since she can't spell
gawd!!!!
Not much, not too, not too - She can't spell so
IMHO
Of course, if I could spell it would help! Sorry. nm
nm
Can you spell
India .. big time.
Spell it without the w and maybe you will have a
little bit more luck. Diskriter. 
No, that's what spell check is for. nm
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and by all means - know how to spell -
especially RECRUITERS!!
spell decent!
nm
you'd think I could spell my pseudoname right at least.
nm
so you think you can spell right? HOW? By looking things up!
I plainly said you have to learn how to spell check and to LOOK THINGS UP.
READ PEOPLE
READ
guess I can't spell either.
I meant taxes not takes.
spell it "unprofessional" -- one 'f', not two
!
Spell correctly.
Maybe their line rate was low because you couldn't type well. It is atrocious
does anybody know how to spell redundent
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Who cannot spell the word anything.
The word anything is a no brainer. Boy, you're sure a little high on the horse, huh? I'm not the OP, but where's the support here  ?????? Cut the OP a break. She's venting! Oh, you must be QA.........
Can you spell audit?
They may not pay you a visit by ringing the doorbell but they can audit you and this encompasses 3 years of returns and you better have each and every receipt for each and every item you claim. It is not a pretty picture at an audit and can cost you dearly.
Well, you did spell Axolotl right, but.....(sm)
nm
Too bad you can't spell it, jeAlousy.
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You need to LEARN to spell....
Don't you think? 
No wonder! This company cannot spell they.
He or she probably couldn't pass their own test.
I don’t have to spell check here
and I was showing what I find, did you not read my posting about what I found in the neurologist's office, a sign spelled sureries.. I am not perfect, did not say that. You should edit yourself.
Guess I need to spell it out
I didn't say VR was a disaster. I said rushing through to meet some arbitrary goal of minutes mixed with the VR requirements is a recipe for disaster. I've seen what this hospital puts out and they do indeed miss important things that should be fixed and aren't.
An editor who can't spell misspelled..lol
nm
Can't even spell the names of your accounts
LOL
spell: desperate ... desperado ...
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spell check is not, that is why I said you have to know how to look things up.
Knowing how to spell or thinking you know how to spell a word is not enough.
Good grief. Read everything.
Can you comprehend
I used to when we had Linksys (can't remember how to spell)
Now we have a different router and I'm not kicked out anymore.
Sorry, meant Transolutions...duh, I CAN spell!
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