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make double your money in one week in order to take a vacation for one week.  I'm forever finding myself wanting to go on vacation, working doubly hard to make up any money I will lose while I'm off either before I leave or when I come back.  Is this the way everyone takes a vacation or is it just me?  I can't seem to give myself a break and just take off any time without making up my money that I'll lose.  GRRRR. I think I need a break!

their own accounts they need to do whatever work needs to be done to get them.  People are frequently asking how to get their own accounts - well DUH.

Just like people asking which is the best company and who pays the most, etc.   If they want a job do the research.  I don't mind helping guide someone in the right direction, but I'm not going to do their leg work for them. 

I wouldn't fill bad at all.  

I just finished my 12-hour day and did about 2,500 lines.  I'm exhausted.  I had a bit of interruptions today, so I possibly could have done more.  Yesterday I did about 1,700 lines in a 10-hour day, which again was full of interruptions.  I can't see myself consistently producing that amount day in and day out.  My wrists and arms already hurt.

All the power to the 3,000 line a day producers!  You are awesome and a very hard worker!

"being the middleman". They have to secure the account, make sure it stays in TAT, keep their eye on any errors or changes and make sure the MTs understand and follow the rules, make sure the clients are always happy, hire the most competent MTs, make payroll, etc., etc.

So before you jump to conclusions and think MTSOs have nothing better to do than being the middleman, think again. I'm not being nasty, just pointing out some facts.

get on the dictation system, only to find NO WORK.  Or just a report or two.  And a bunch of other transcriptionists fighting for what little there is too.

I think my company overhired BIG TIME.  I think they hired a bunch of the people who jumped the ship from Medquist.

then maybe you are one of the many transcriptionists out there who are working HARD and not SMART.  If you are SMART you will learn how to use your skills to acheive the MAXIMUM payoff. 

The majority of Transcriptionist I have met really do not KNOW how to increase their line counts, how to be INDEPENDENT, how to SELL their services, etc.  Instead, they are CONTENT making under 30,000 . You have to be SMART in this business and quit SELLING yourself SHORT.  Learn everything you can about BEING THE BEST in your profession.  The work is OUT there!!!!!!!!  You need to seek it and turn down the CRAP that doesn't make $$$$.  I am only a 5 year MT and last year I made close to 52,000 after taxes.  Get motivated and get moving.  The work is there!!!!

When I need a reality check on how good I got it with this at-home typing thing, I do my chores outside in the freezing cold or sweltering heat and realize that is about the only other thing I could do in this state for income, and I'd be lucky if I got minimum wage with no bennies out of it.

I guess you have to look at it from a different perspective every now and again.  I've heard of people who leave MTing at home because they miss the buzz of an office, and then the cranky patient's and office politics breaks them down and brings them back to doing their thing solo again.

For me, the pay isn't too awfully bad because I figure don't have to buy fancy clothes, I don't have to worry about a car, gas, packing/buying lunch, and putting on a happy face if I don't want to. 

We all have bad days.  Those are days when you really need to take a deep breath or two and walk away for a bit.  They will get better.  If the bad days just keep on a'comin, well, then I suppose it would be time to look for a change, and there's nothing wrong with that either.   

you need to type it into autocorrect like this

;yo (semicolin and the yo right next to the semicolin) I also add the m(male), (f( female)  or g (gentleman) etc.

Then you type for example, This 55;yom  (-year old male) and it will work perfectly.  I'm not sure why the semicolon works this way, but it does.  Let me know what you think.

stay focused.  When you're working at home it is soooo easy to turn on the TV, take frequent breaks to answer the phone, talk to hubbie, play with the kids, take a hot bath, play solitaire on the PC, surf the net, post on a message board, etc.

I just wondered if anyone had any miracle cure for the wandering mind?

HELP!!!!  How can we prove to our significant others that working at home is hard work and just because we are home, we are working and CANNOT always find extra time for laundry, dishes, cleaning, dinner, etc?????

I hear, "you work 6 hours a day, I work 10...I expect everything to be done if you have those extra 4 hours.... " Well, my 6 hours of working is actual sit at the computer and type my fingers to the bone....yes, I take breaks and do have extra time..but then I shower, chat with friends, catch the news..whatever....it is not excessive.  I keep up on the house most of the time, juggle my schedule to pick kids up from school, etc.... so once in a while if I just don't feel like making sure everything around the house is done, i get "What did you do all day..."  I AM SICK OF IT!!!!

My job is a full time job, I make more than I ever had working in an office 40 hours a week.....and I don't want to feel guilty for taking breaks and having some quality time for myself in between working...

Especially when he goes to work and talks to all his coworkers, brags about how easy his job is, sits around waiting for an assignment etc.....  Just because he isn't home to do the laundry on his breaks, why should I?????

sorry this is so long...but I KNOW a lot of you can relate!!!!!

That time is coming sooner rather than later, as more boomers retire (or try to), the balance of those working and supporting the system continues to drop.

In the meanwhile, we continue to cater to anyone who wants to play the system (I personally know 3 people who do).  As as society we have taught everyone to whine and stick out their hand to the government, federal and local, and they will be rewarded because they are "special".

The working folk get tired of watching the party they can never attend.  Beyond the emotional toll, their bodies become sick from working too hard for too long.  One by one they leave the work force, and who will replace them?

So, when nobody is "normal" and everyone is "special" and the whole thing collapses, maybe then there will be reform, but at that point how?  Good luck trying to get people who have been on the dole their entire lives (the 3 people I know are pushing 40) to suddenly change their ways after a lifetime of entitlement.  They'll probably just turn to crime so they can go to jail and society will continue to support them there.  Then the money formerly budgeted for entitlement programs will go to build more prisons, and taxes will not go down.