Bono, still haven't found what you're looking for?
Posted By: sorry on 2005-07-27
In Reply to: NO bonus here for the last two years!!! - bono
Just couldn't resist that one.
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I haven't found them
What I've seen ranges from 2.5 cpl to 15 per hour.
Haven't you found though
that what feels good short-term (shoes, chairs, foundation garments, etc.) gets uncomfortable long-term? I've sure been fooled by something I tried on, sat on, even walked a few feet in, only to find that it just did not work out.
My current chair, for instance, felt extremely cushy when I tried it in the store, and for a while afterward at home. Then the seat seemed to lose its 'cush'. I think the type of intensive 'extreme' sitting we MTs do is the real test of a chair. Maybe we all should get jobs as chair testers with Consumer Report?
I haven't found the need to have a backup sm
phone line connection. My cable is Insight and very seldom have a problem. They usually do their ugrades during the midnight hours, which posed a problem when I worked nights. We seldom have any outages and if we do, it is usually resolved in a couple of hours or so. For what I pay, I think I get pretty good service and don't want to cough up any more money for another connection unless I had a second job that required it.
I'm happy there. Haven't found anyone to be rude...sm
I think the office/tech staff is exceptionally nice. ');>![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/smirlove2.gif") All I care really is that my work is steady, I get a great cpl rate, I've never missed a paycheck or had a late paycheck in my 2+ years there, and on the occasional times that my work has run out I could be switched to another work pool for more work. And the benefits are great, but only for full-timers (no bennies for part time MTs).
If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them.
By the way, I *think* TransHealth is hiring right now.
I am a good MT. However, I haven't found what I need from a company yet.
I agree that not every MT or company will be a good fit for each other. I just didn't realize that what I was asking for from an employer would be nearly impossible to find. It's not that I'm not willing to give a little either; it seems like the majority of companies that I have come across want you chained to your desk 24/7 with a ring through your nose to tug on. They won't pay downtime but they expect you to check back into the system every 15 minutes without pay. Some people do this without complaining because they feel lucky to have a job working at home. I'm sorry, but I'm not a doormat. We already pay the overhead and equipment costs for the companies. Our benefits and line rates get cut back more and more. The quality of dictation gets worse and worse because of VR and offshoring. I'm a good MT, and I deserve to be treated like one. If standing up for myself means I have a bad attitude, oh well, at least I can sleep at night for not letting anybody walk all over me.
For transcription, I haven't found that the quality of the sm
speakers is an issue at all. it is the quality of the headphones that matters, unless you don't use headphones?
Difficult to find, haven't found one yet (sm)
but I keep looking 
If there is a company out there that let's you type on a blank page, I haven't found it. I
been an MT for 13 years now and worked at home for about 11 of those years and never found a company that I felt truly treated their MT's fair.
Bono political and
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I do that all the time. You haven't snapped, you're just realistic. -nm
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Bono and vanilla ice cream.
He can wish for me and Guiness and we'd be set. 
Sorry! You're right but I found this...
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You're right...I just googled and found a lot...
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=1501&sku=26886&engine=adwords!654&keyword=%289+pin+to+usb%29
There one here. It's almost $30. There are probably more reasonable ones. This is just the first one I saw. 
I found the keyboard you're talking about...
do you remember about how long it took you to get used to it? Do you think you're faster on it? thanks for any info you can provide!
You're correct. Thanks! I found 2 on the SOAP transcription site
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Oh, I found it really creepy when you said you found the flowers not so skillfully arranged on your
steps, and from your own flower bed. That's what I was worried about, having gone thru some psycho kids myself with my pups. Someone's been in your yard and in your garden and at your door without your knowledge. Its just creepy to me, and I'd still be very, very careful. Especially valid sounded the other MTs warning you about potential fake molestation charges. You just NEVER know nowadays, and these people have already turned on you big time once. Luckily (though I don't believe in luck), you had it on film to save yourself and your puppy. You might not be that lucky next time, and the whole thing just sounds very unstable to me right now. I know you feel sorry for the little girl, but probably the only time I have ever made BAD decisions regarding my life is when I felt sorry for someone, particularly kids. My son even has an evil kid in his life, but one who has a million reasons for sympathy, and I was saying how we should "be bigger" than the situation and invite this kid over to play. Thankfully, I regained my sanity long enough to remember - ever time I have done something like that on a personal basis for someone just because I feel sorry for them AFTER horrible behavior, it has always been a disaster... Be kind, but you don't have to risk your family again. Be kind from a distance. Its sorry she went thru this horrible experience, but YOU didn't cause it, and its not really your problem. But it could be your problem if this kid acts out in your life. Know what I mean?
I think I found it, found multiple recipes with the same
exact ingredients so I figure this must be it.
Found it, Prolastin, also found
alpha-1
For Pete's sake, you're not terminating a pregnancy, you're just typing a report after the
It's already been done before you even hear about it, and NOTHING changes regardless of whether you or someone else types it. Sheesh.
It's not funny when you're on a board where language is one skill you're selling.
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Hope you're gonna have a glass of wine while you're relaxing
in your spa goodies. Congrats!
Well, you're all complaining that accounts are current and work is low, so, gee, maybe they're
focusing on WORK, as in CLIENT and transcribing, as maybe half of you should be focusing on!!
If you're experienced, try for 9cpl or higher, and you're lucky to get that! nm
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Skip it. No one cares. Either you're good on the test or you're not.
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You're probably right. Plus we're losing our percentage of good people by .... (sm)
allowing every loser from every 3rd world country on the planet to just stroll on into our country, some legally, most illegally, and take advantage of the social services all us hard working little gerbils pay for by having money taken out of our pay every month. But I don't think we're all lazy. Just the ones on permanent welfare driving around town in brand-new Cadillac Escalades. Saw one just today on the Bayshore Fwy. Brand-new black Escalade with expensive spinner wheels, with 5 or 6 Mexicans in it. Well, who knows - maybe they stole it and it was on its way to a chop-shop. Smart-and-hungry people aren't always hard-working and honest.
You're not going to find a word expander for free. You're going to have to pay
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You're forgetting all the stuff you can't buy when you're UNEMPLOYED!
Unemployed people have a hard time buying anything, including cheaply made offshore products. How many will have to end up depending on public assistance? That means more tax dollars being eaten up - besides the taxes NOT being collected from the overseas workers. In the long run, are you really enjoying a lower price?
If you're on the job, ask for samples to do it how they want it. If you're testing, separate o
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You're not losing it, you're burned out on your main job.
I feel for you... I am having my own "version" ;-) of these kinds of struggles. Lots of recent changes at the admin level have made my job do a 180, going from a really great one to a really crappy one.
For me, it's a struggle to get through the day with a shred of motivation. I get distracted in the way you discuss as well.
I just try to make my environment as comfortable as possible and make the best of it while I decide what the best way is to deal with the burnout... I figure if I can't change my inner brain workings so that I still like this job, I need to find another one, or this feeling will possibly get worse!
I hope it works out for you. Wish I had some better advice for you, but this really does look like burnout and extreme job dissatisfaction to me. We all wear it differently. Try to be good to yourself while you figure out a solution.
Don't know what you're complaint you're making with this post. sm
You stated in your original post that you don't want to work weekends or odd shifts. What is your definition of an odd shift? Second shift? Third shift? Sounds like you want to work M-F on days. Sounds kind of rigid to me.
Personally I like second shift, so everyone working days means more work for me! 
Haven't actually done it yet, but...
I have been wanting to do it and had looked it to it several years ago. I do believe that old concrete has to be etched first in order to open up the "pores." I was looking at using a concrete "stain" I believe it was made by Behr brand and was sold at Home Depot. It comes in lots of colors. It was my understanding that the etching and then the stain would basically allow the color to soak into the concrete rather than sit on top like paint and wouldn't have the problems with peeling. However, unfortunately, I haven't tried it yet but just wanted to offer another suggestion for you to look into. Good luck!
I haven't but my son did. sm
If you feel okay, it's probably a muscle or even an intestinal cramp. If you start to feel sick, or even just lousy, or the pain intensifies and you start to feel feverish, you should spend the $100.00.
My son was 16 and he was very, very sick. It came on in the middle of the night very quickly. He finally yelled to me at 5:00 in the morning because he couldn't get out of bed. He said he thought he had food poisoning and had been vomiting all night and his stomach hurt really bad. Just one look at him (greyish/green pallor) and I knew it was bad. We went right to the ER and the nurse came right out and got him as soon as the front desk person took one look at him. Paperwork was done later as he was prepped for surgery.
It wasn't a half hour before he was in surgery to remove his appendix that was about to burst.
He was really sick. I had a friend who just had hers out. She didn't wait as long, but she really felt horrid.
I haven't gone through it or know anyone who has
the best. I hope the lump turns out not to be cancer.
take care.
I haven't gotten anything either.
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NEW HAVEN, CT
NO MESSAGE
still haven't gotten over
yummy, yummy, yummy
Haven't had one but....
I've been with several others who have had, conscious sedation is much less risky and each time the patient recovered extremely quickly, no discomfort or side effects.
I haven't seen anything less than
3-4 cpl and most are only offering 1-2 cpl. Maybe if you are lucky, you can get an hourly gig.
Who knows - you may be right. I haven't - sm
run two operating systems at the same time, but anything is possible these days! I do have duplicate other software that I run because I don't like what came with the PC. For example, my old Photoshop instead of Windows' version; two different spam blockers & firewalls, and I use an old external Iomega drive & Iomega software for burning CDs because the Windows one doesn't work half the time. One thing I've learned about computers over the years is you shouldn't always take "no" for an answer with them. In the PC world, "no" usually means "find another way to do it." ;D
I haven't seen much about them lately, but if you
check the company board you can find info there. Doesn't appear to be very good though.
Your right TMT...those who haven't done it, don't get it..
I have been an MT for 10 years and have been home with both of my children and my work doesn't suffer nor do my children...don't take what others say personally...they don't know your or your situation :)
I haven't taken it yet,
but I did take the RMT back in January. I am scheduled for the CMT at the end of June.
One of my supervisors suggested learning all 12 cranial nerves. I printed them out and stuck them on the wall next to my bathroom to study while teeth-brushing. Now that's what I call multitasking. :)
Other than that, it has been suggested to study the various word parts, prefixes and suffixes and roots, because if you get those down cold, you can muddle your way through words that you don't actually know the meaning of. Medicolegal stuff is also something that gets pointed out as a thing to study.
I have heard several people recommend the CMT study guide. I am working my way through it now.
And know your BOS cold. Second edition; they haven't switched to third edition yet for the exam.
One of my co-workers talked to someone at AHDI who told her you only have to get half of the transcription section correct (and that's supposedly the easier part), and you have to get 62 of the 102 multiple choice questions right. That figure will come in handy when you are actually taking the test, because you can mark questions to come back to, and if you keep track of how many questions you KNOW you have correct (i.e. the real no-brainers), you can actually run a calculation to figure out how many questions you can afford to "throw" and thus not spend TOO much time or energy obsessing on the ones you aren't sure about.
Also, be very careful on the transcription portion, to follow the instructions exactly. For instance, if a particular problem is a "fill in the missing phrase" problem, if there are commas and periods and other punctuation marks already supplied, do NOT repeat them. In other words, your finished sample should look exactly like a normal piece of finished work. For more info about this, visit the CMT page of the AHDI website and take a look at the "candidate guide," starting on page 9.
Above all... remember to BREATHE! It's not so bad. Really. At least the RMT wasn't; I finished the whole thing in slightly under an hour, and walked out of the place muttering that I've done harder work than that in my sleep.
Feel free to e-mail me if you have any other questions. I am crankybeach at yahoo dot com.
I'm very sorry, (), I haven't been around a while.
First, I admit I don't use AutoCorrecct so I can't speak to that. It's far better than nothing, but it's just not a professional-level application adequate to the intensive use we need to put it to. Also, it can crash with overuse and lose everything invested in it.
Shorthand and InstantText are two excellent programs, and I recommend them both to anyone looking for an expander.
IMO, it's not at all true that we need our Expanders very little with editing--just the opposite. I can understand why people think so, though. Very little is being said on this because it's all such new technology and there's not been a lot of experience built up. We're the first wave. But toss that defeatest belief aside. You keystroke all day long. If you could cut your Keystrokes by half you'd double your income. Even cutting them by a third... This is very, very doable.
Editing consists of corrections, many of them very short but done hundreds of times a day. If you can use your Expander to shorten a 6-stroke correction to a smoother and shorter 3-stroke correction, you're doubling your rate of pay every time you use it for those keystrokes. And feeling a whole lot happier about what you're doing--it's a significant upgrade in your skills and you're breezing through reports much faster. I just happen to feel like I'm going backwards when I use my backspace key, so I don't. Every use it's put to is part of a short form, and that key is seldom touched.
Corrections come in various types--
Changing the case of a letter or word. For me, F changes the case of the letter it's in front of, lantus to Lantus, Ampicillin to ampicillin. FF changes the case of the whole word.
Adding a word, words, or phrases not included. Deleting words not dictated and replacing with those that are.
In editing it's typically much less a matter of dropping in whole blocks of text and instead correcting lots of individual words and phrases--make abbreviations for ALL of them. mk abrevjs l AL o uem. (l is my short for FOR, o is OF, u is short for TH in a word but short for HER on its own).
The same for little short phrases--iort is in order to. beo because of. epld is was placed (E is my short for WAS). Store ALL of them.
Correcting punctuation. I have macros for every one that pops up all day long. ,q backs up, deletes a punctuation mark, replaces it with a comma, and repositions the cursor at the next word--without changing the case of that word. ,, does the same thing but changes the case of the next word to combine two sentences into one.
Making these was as simple as recording the keystrokes of the correction into my expander as I did them for the last time.
bb links two words together so they don't split at the end of a line.
Correcting verb tenses and word endings. qd backs up, inserts ed, then repositions at the next word. qdd does the same thing but backs two spaces to deletes a letter (looks to looked).
Correcting headings. /abq moves "abdomen" in the middle of a block of text to the beginning of the next line and changes it to ABDOMEN: //abq does the same but also bolds it.
Correcting gender. R is my abbreviation for he, and rq corrects her to he. kq changes "he" to "she."
kt adds a "The" to the beginning of a sentence and changes the previously-first word to lower case. Same for ka for adding A to the beginning of a sentence, kit for It, kk for She.
;;3 and ;;4 change prednisone, loratidine to
3. Prednisone.
4. Loratidine.
At the very least (ah vr lest) shorten words to phonetic spellings--fonetc spelgs.
Far from not using my expander as I edit all day long, any time I make a correction that doesn't have a short form I feel as if I'm making a mistake. Surely there's SOME way I can save at least one keystroke there?
This may sound like a lot, but it's so FUN and satisfying to make an important short form and start using it. Would any of us ever want to go back to typing out chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by hand again instead of copdd or whatever the short form of choice is? It's the very same thing. Just applied to everything.
Best wishes.
I haven't been there that long so I can't say for sure, mostly because
the account they put me on is extremely low on work so I can't even work my scheduled shift in the first place. If I want to work, I've been having to grab reports right as they come in and work extra at night. They keep saying they are getting me a secondary but it hasn't happened yet; say everything is low right now. I am very pleased with every other aspect of this company, but it seems that they overstaff for fast turn around times. Therefore, you go without work a lot of the time and that doesn't pay the bills. No one seems to understand that we work on production and while I would most enjoy days off, I can't afford them......
..oops! Should be haven't seen one...nm
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I haven't seen any brochures, but if you
look at the Job Seekers board and go to some of the company websites you would probably see what you are asking for.
Haven't gotten the letter yet
 MQ is run by a bunch of jerks.
I haven't gotten my check but did
get Ipay notice, no letter of explanation yet, HOWEVER, my check is for pennies over $25.00 (twenty-five). This is supposed to be for 2 years???? What is wrong with this picture???????????????
You haven't been in banking for a
while and can't remember? You can remember when you're on the board dishing out unsolicited financial advice - can't you?
Haven't heard any more
but if all the MEs would do it, we should refuse to do ASR on October 1st. This is really a disgrace what is going on with the company and with what is going on, on this board at times (which is really sabotaging our professionalism.
I am about to! They haven't paid me from last
pay period and nobody answers my e-mails. Unprofessional!
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