BORED TO DEATH
Posted By: fastMT on 2007-03-22
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 Does anyone else get sick and tired of doing the same work, same doctors, same everything day in and day out? I am bored to death with this job! I like the job just not the same stuff. I think I need a change!!!!
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The VR is what bored me to death..sm
I would actually get to the point where I could feel my head nodding...80% of what I got was VR....I was beginning to feel retarded. The only straight transcription that was sent to me were the worst dictators, cause the company knew I would do it, take my time, research, relisten, etc. I've always felt more alive transcribing than editing.  Cat
Bored!!!!
Help! I need a few words of encouragement. I feel as if I've been working 4 hours and it's only been 1-3/4!!! What can I do to psych myself out to get in my time?
I'm too hot to be bored!
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Really bored...
Broasted chicken and John Grisham. He's intelligent and a great storyteller, so I would be well fed and never bored on an island - perfect existence.
anybody BORED??
I am having a really tough time lately with being totally bored with what I am doing. Too many ESL doctors that put me to sleep or frustrate me beyond belief. Too much time with "no work available" and too much stuff in some reports that my line count takes a big hit b/c I'm spending tons of time looking things up... Anybody else feeling bored, burnt out, or whatever this is?? How did you snap out of it? I need to start making serious money at this, but can't seem to get there no matter what I do and so much of it is completely out of my control.
anybody BORED?
Do you have any of the computer programs made for Medical Transcription, such as medical dictionary, medical spellchecker, smarttype, etc. Since I have gotten the above and a few others,I spend less time looking up information and more time typing and some things as easy as a search engine (google.com) may be helpful. Good luck.
Anyone get bored?
Lately it is getting harder and harder for me to stay awake while transcribing - have done this for 20+ years and now have to take caffeine pills (even after getting 7-8 hours sleep) Do the same account every day, same work type (which I know I should consider as lucky), same long reports every day, very monotonous, nothing challenging and having a really hard time. If I complain the office staff will put be on discharges which will be even more boring. Used to get a mixture of short and long reports, now very seldom get anything short and am so bored - get up every hour and walk around 10 minutes or so - any ideas on pepping myself up?
Bored, bored, bored...
I hear you on the boredom front!
I think we are all victims of spring. New season, we want changes, we get restless, there's more daylight, and who wants to sit in front of a monitor 8 hrs/day typing the same repetative droning voices hours upon hours?
The only thing that seems to be a temporary fix for me is to blow off the work for 30 minutes and get outside for a walk. Take the phone off the hook and just go. You can't be productive when you get in a slump and sometimes doing something physical is the answer. Walk fast, swing your arms, head up, deep breaths and think about what you're going to plant in the garden, or what color you want to paint a room in your house, or maybe a new hair style.
I think this time of year we thrive on change, yet this job is not conducive to that so we have to create change elsewhere.
Wow. Now it has come down to me spewing this mystic inner-self stuff. See what being cooped up does to a person?
re: being bored
Hi there!
I have only been typing for about a year and a half so far but I just wanted to say that I do disability psych evals and they are always different to listen to. So if you want something different to do, try finding a company that does psych evals! I also have to walk for about 20 minutes a day just to get my blood pumping to my brain and hands which get sore too!
God bless!
Jan Setzer
Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored....
:0 [yawn]
I'm bored too
Just interviewed for a QA position because favorite part of my job now is looking up unfamiliar words. But don't get paid for that. QA would be hourly salary and at least I would be challenged again.
Bored
So, I've decided that medical transcription is something I just can no longer do. I've been doing it for 16 years but I'm so bored, it's pretty near driving me crazy. Can't concentrate... vacuuming the house is more interesting that transcribing at this point. I took a week off not too long ago. That week went by far too quickly. Then I took 3 days off this weekend. So, here I am fresh from a good break, and am sitting here wanting to do anything other than transcribe.
I have no idea what other type of work I could do. All I know is transcribing feels pretty similar to getting smacked by a baseball bat! Painful all the same, minus the bruises!
When I first started it did, but now I am bored. nm
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off today and bored...
That's where I stay when I go. You will never be bored
and then go to the Ocean's Club. They have some condos you can rent that are part of Atlantis too that are quite nice and they are within walking distance and you get to use all the amenities. That is where I would say to go.
That is bored and you are the trolls--nm
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I have been an MT for over 10 years now and I am so bored.
I can't stand being on the phone with anybody because I get so tired of hearing people talk all the time. I get irritated easily and my family is starting to notice it. My friends are upset with me because I don't call them as often as I should. The housework is definitely slacking. I even had to get a babysitter to watch my 9-month-old baby for me because it was too hard working late nights and then staying up all day, getting only minimal naps in before my 7-year-old came home from school. What is the point of working from home for very little and not being able to take care of my own family? I am interested in doing some billing. Do you think you can email me some information on how to go about this? I did some billing before and I enjoyed it, although it was working in a clinic. I am thinking about taking the tests but it's been so long since I've done anything else. 
So bored I could scream
I thought working from home would give me more "flexibility" to be with my family; little did I know that I actually have less time with my family now than I would at a job in town.
To take time off, it must be scheduled months in advance. An emergency has to be cleared in advance. I'm so bored that I'm eating to keep myself focused and awake at night. I would cut back, but I don't earn enough to go part time. It is harder and harder to force myself to go to work, and harder and harder to stay focused, particularly when I have a bad dictator which is more often than not.
I think I'm so burned out I'm crispy around the edges.
BORED? THE ANSWER
Dear FastMT,
I really like you and I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND AND EMPATHIZE WITH YOUR BOREDOM!! I have too many years (23) of medical transcription under my belt. I had 96 college credits in the academic curriculum, which is very interesting. I am really an academic person. I received an A average in high school in an academic curriculum and won a college scholarship based on my first 1-1/2 years of college (academic curriculum).
I sense that you, like me, have a higher level of intelligence and require much more engrossing and stimulating work than what medical transcription provides you. After the first several years, the whole challenge wears off, and then of course there is the distrust of exactly what these doctors are doing to their patients in the form of harm.
I would like to discuss this with you, because I sense I have the answer for you in the form of a career change. Would you please email me at my email address, which is: dove003@comcast.net? Please do email me, since I really think could have the answer for you!!
THIS IS NOT SOME GIMMICK AND I DO NOT REPRESENT SOME COMPANY. I only want to help you out. Please email me. Thanks.');>![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/smirlove2.gif")
Linda
I got bored w/ it too, that's why I'm working my way up
Once you get in the door you can apply for different positions with enough experience. When working for a national, this field isn't limited to JUST transcription!
Was bored, now happy in-house
I was bored and sleepy working at home doing acute care. I always found short reports a better rhythm for me. Nothing makes me sleepier than seeing an 18-minute report come up (usually STAT). Ugh. My production went so low I was let go, which was a blessing. I was out of work for 4 months and prepared to go back to school for something more active like nursing, but found a temporary position doing radiology for an in-house outpatient facility. I liked it so much I came on as an employee. I like the short reports, the contact with radiologists and techs, and having so much control over the referrer's database and quality. The radiologists remark they have never seen such good quality as mine. It is total satisfaction for me.
My son, who is 14, most definitely YES! He is constantly whining to me about being bored, but...
my daughter is starting Kindergarten this year and she is my baby and my last and I am going to be a blubbering fool probably the entire first week of school!
So? Are you just bored that you can comment so cruelly?
NM
Does anyone eat out a lot. I don't like to cook but am bored with the same old fast food.
Got any places not too expensive where I can get food to go. To go is the key. Bored with McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, delivery pizza. (Boston Market?)
Thanks.
I'm bored and dateless on a Saturday night...
Is it my basic personality?
My SIL's mom also wanted to work from home cause she was *bored*. nm
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I agree Taylor/Elliot. I think I would get bored with sm
Chris and Katharine's music. Though they are all in good positions to be picked up by a record producer. Look at Josh Gracin. He was 4th.
You can *what if* yourself to death--sm
it sounds to me like your decision is already made.. gor for it! Giving up *free time* is never easy, but we need to earn a living too. Good luck to you!
EMR is NOT the death of MT
Even if the entire world went to EMR (which I doubt we'll ever see in our lifetime) it doesn't mean the death of the MT nor does it mean we will all have to go to VR. I transcribe for an office in NY that uses EMR, and once our reports are sent in, they go into a holding bin for the doctors to review and sign of on.Then the reports go directly into the patient's EMR. The only difference is no paper. We still get the same amount of work for the same amount of pay. There is absolutely no change to my routine. On the other hand I have an account out of AR that will probably never ever ever go to EMR unless the doctors are faced with losing their licenses or they retire (a good 20 years or more)
anybody bored with this summer? favorite month/season?
too hot to do anything. give me late september or early october please.
Okay I'm Really Bored. If you could only have one food and one person on desert island, what and
who would it be? No fair family members. We want a famous person and one food item to picnic forever on this island.
That just irks me to death.
I worked for a national that had two QA people on my account. The one QA person did it one way, and the other one did it another way. One pushed for combining forms, the other one said NO. I never knew who was working from one day to the next. I finally sent an email to both QA people, the account manager and the owner of the company with quotes from each of their corrections contradicting each other. I asked which way I should do it because I couldn't do it both ways. It took forever to sort out.
Income Tax after Death
I have a friend whose mother passed away in March of this year. She was an IC and thus earned income right up until the time of her death. Is her daughter now responsible for filing an income tax return and/or paying taxes on this income? I know an accountant for her would be handy in this situation, but I thought I might get some opinions here as well. Thanks!!
RE: Taxes after death
My mom died last year and the accountant did work up her taxes and they were paid by me. The money, of course, came from her account.
death toll
That is 53 confirmed deaths so far....Lord knows what the count will be when the water subsides, so it may be close to comparison with the Tsunami, I pray not.
Yes and lover her to death!
$50 a week. We have about 2500 sq ft and she cleans the whole house. I can't believe it took me as long as it did to hire someone.
I'm tested to death, too
If you create a folder on your desktop called "Sound Files" - then when you are downloading an mp3 file or whatever - right click and do "save to target" - then browse your desktop until you see sound files folder and make sure that is in the box. Then, the files will download to that folder. Then, when you double click on Express Scribe, up on the top you will see "Load" - click on this and then browse for your sound files folder. Highlight those you want to download into express scribe and then down at the bottom, hit ok or load (can't remember which it is). They will then be loaded into express scribe, ready to go.
Death summary on someone who...
had died for the same disease as my dad, lymphoma. The summary went through the last month of her life and the hospital stay. At that time, my dad was not in the hospital, but was showing these same signs. So, I knew what was forthcoming for him. And, needless to say, it happened the same way with very few changes. Talk about a tear jerker and a tough one to type.
Death in family
As the "executrix" in my family it was my duty to be sure everyone was treated fairly. Some things were taken by family members without waiting and rather than get upset about it, I let it go. I just made sure the written wishes in the "will" were carried out. Some did take things that should have been given to others, but I knew better than to bring it up,since it would only make for family problems ad infinatum. You don't know if there was something about the jacket that made this person feel her father's presence, not thinking of where it really "belongs." I agree that it should go back to you but in my experience, they might say, "it was a gift" and never be on good terms with you again. Let it go, believe me, this is what this wonderful man would have wanted you to do. It's hard, it's difficult, but "letting go" will give you more freedom. Perhaps at a later point you could mention how much the jacket meant to your son and how you are glad it was not given to a stranger. Perhaps she'll come to her senses. She's in too much pain right now to think straight. Wait a week or two and don't cause a permanent rift. You'll be proud of yourself later. It's material. Bad feelings go on forever. Somehow "grace" is always the best under pressure. Sorry for your loss.
Death in family
Quickly - ask for it. Otherwise, it might be sold in a yard sale. I know that when my father-in-law died, my mother-in-law's mother and sister came in and cleaned out the house - within 3 weeks you would have never known that he had lived there. They took and sold everything that they wanted, left my mother-in-law with a few pictures and her own memories. Thankfully, her mother died this year - she and the sister were real vultures. Hope this helps, but whatever you do, fight or no fight - get it back - you will be glad that you did and so will your son.
scared to death...what to do
Okay, now that I have job offers, I have to figure out what to do.
Right now: I am employed on site as an admin asst with great insurance, good pay, people I like, and job security. The downside is missing my family--I only see them about four hours in the evenings and most of that is bathtime, cooking supper, you get the picture. I also have quite a drive to work and parking is HORRIBLE. I feel I work LONG weeks and then have little to show in the way of my emotional outlook and cash left over after buying gas, etc.
What could be: I have job offers to come back home and type full time. I would be here to see my children and be close to their schools if something happened. Also, my husband has built me a gorgeous office by closing in a porch, so there's a big three-paned picture window that overlooks my garden. I can envision myself at home, but there's a tremendous amount of fear that's holding me back. I am AFRAID because I remember how long it took to get lines in every day. I worry about the security of benefits, PTO, and just the job itself. I don't want to be sitting in this office 7 days a week from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. I hope I'm more capable than that, but sometimes it's not the MT, it's the conditions, and if I give up my other job...
I guess I am just venting and worrying and wondering. After a two-year break, can I come back home and be productive and accountable as an MT? Can I count on the industry? I really wanted to come home, but now I'm afraid.
TIA for any and all suggestions!
Death summary
Dr. dictates:
Reason for Death: Incompatibility with life.
Sick to death of this!
Now, I'm sure that this has been covered again and again, but I am so upset that I just have to say something! I am so SICK and TIRED of every single job listing saying, "New graduates need not apply," etc. It's like a slap in the face...you're not good enough, we just know it, don't even THINK about submitting you resume to us you subhuman. I have worked at previous jobs in which I was as good after two months of experience as some who had been working there 3 or more years. (I'm sure everyone has had this feeling. I'm not trying to insinuate that I'm a genius or anything.) Why can't anyone just give me a chance? How do they know that I'm not good enough?!?!? Meanwhile, I've invested a moderate amount of money and a huge amount of time into this for what??? Anyway, that's my rant. Thanks for listening and sorry for the negativity.
death summaries
I've typed several that have left me sobbing, spilling tears on my keyboard quite literally, over the line: The patient passed away peacefully with his entire family at the bedside. After I would dry my tears and wipe off my keyboard, I would wonder why that statement was deemed medically pertinent?
Spheris can't AFFORD MQ. I doubt it is TRUE and someone is bored and trying to stir
Good job.
Some days I feel so mentally bored I wonder if I am losing my mind. nm
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"so, are you just bored that you can comment so cruelly? read your own post;
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"so, are you just bored that you can comment so cruelly? read your own post;
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Once had a supervisor who nitpicked me to death, my first job,
took it and took it, until FINALLY one day, she told me that "mcg" was not abbreviation for micrograms....that's when I QUIT and went home!
So the solution is clubbing 50,000 to death?
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze. I'm sorry, but that's just an ignorant comment.
blue screen of death
I'm not sure if he went back to myspace a second time, I'll have to ask him. Thanks for all the help. I got it at Best Buy so I think I'll take it back there and see what they have to say also. I just don't want him away at college and have the darn thing crashing all the time. It's not like you can just keep buying new ones at that price!
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