Bravo!

I've always thought it was unrealistic to expect all teenage high school graduates to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives and to be able to pursue a college degree based on that knowledge (although I acknowledge that's 100% true, as some grads do know).  I'm 53 and I'm still not sure what I want to be when I grow up!

I think the events described in your post happen a lot more often than not, and when they do occur, it IS a waste of money. 

Life is a work in progress, and people change drastically over the course of it.

• Have any of you ever thought of court reporting? sm - Penguin
  • Court Reporting - llwynn
    • Software used with Court Reporting Machine - Steno Secretary
  • I checked it out recently (sm) - MT
    • The thing that really interested me is the sm - Penguin
  • From what I have heard, harder to break into than - MT.
  • I'm learning scoping, and its quite interesting, instead of CR -- nm - Sara
    • Link to scoping infor, if interested - Sara
  • Nope. If I wanted to work outside the home, it certainly would not - tired of sitting on my backside
  • Would like to exchange notes..sm - amie
  • I don't want to work that hard! OR learn somethingn new. nm - Becky AKA Old Dawg
  • court reporting - no name
  • My husband is an attorney and suggested the same thing to me once. - sm
    • I wouldn't recommend it... - D
      • They have one of those Stenomasks on Ebay. It's funny! - stenomask
        • yikes - Saras
      • Speech recognition in court reporting - MTness
      • I tried to transcribe one of those - PJ
      • That's right...sm - former CR student
        • Do you use your steno machine to transcribe? nm - D

The messages you are viewing are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select the boards given in left menu

Yes, instead of being petty, envious and annoyed - celebrate with our typing sisters and brothers - we are all trying to make it work moneywise.  Share the knowledge of increasing line count.  That is what everyone wants to know anyway. Good for you!

I watch my friends spend all this money on clothing, gas and food while I'm at home in my sweats and T-shirts and a tank of gas will last for weeks when my daughter is out of school. I cook enough dinner to have leftovers for lunch. 

When the weather is bad, I'm not trying to get home, I just keep on typing (unless the power goes out of course).  So all in all, I can't complaint even though I do at times LOL. 

Another benefit of this job I would say is that you can work for as many companies as you can handle unlike there being a conflict of interest say if you are working for two grocery stores in the same area.

can cost you a BUNDLE, especially after a few NONPAYING companies in a row.

a holiday, they want every school break to be off with their children, they have to go on a field trip, they need to take Bratleigh to the doctor, on and on.

Taking a full-time job is great for them with full-time benefits until they are told they have to work some weekends or God forbid CHRISTMAS....what about the chilllllldddrennnnnn......

I too have been in this business for a long time (almost 20 years).  I also have a good friend who is an RN who will ask me questions about certain things that she hasn't read up on because it is not in her field of "expertise". 

If someone I know says something like, "I have this pain that won't go away. . ..", I say, "you need to make an appointment with your doctor.  If someone says the doc put them on a drug and can't pronounce the name, I can give them the correct way to say it.

But in my experience, I can tell (in my areas of expertise) when something is wrong.  I would never say, "I think he has this or that."  I would say, "I really don't like the looks of that and it might need to be looked at by the doctor. Even if I do know from experience what it may be. 

In the case of an NP ignoring the MT's concerns, I find that disturbing.  That seems to say that personal objections are getting in the way, which should never happen in the medical field, regardless of what level you are at, if there is even what may apper to be a valid concern.