Congratulations, and TKU for sharing your methods.

• 2975 lines yesterday! (sm) - Exhausted
  • wow what and where do you work? - rae
  • Some on the other board did 4178 lines. nm - nm
  • I used to do that until it killed me almost! I now do QA. - Congratulations!
  • Exhausted from doing that many lines - makes me wonder about the quality
    • Just fine, thanks - Exhausted
    • I can do that many lines and still have 98%+ - me
  • Whoa! You go girl! Been there but keep to 2000. - omt
    • 12 hours - texan
  • You rock! Thanks for raising the bar! nm - mtnMT
  • How many... - wondering.
    • About 12 hours . . . (sm) - Exhausted
      • and keep reports gendered....sm - I too keep normals on every dictator
      • CONGRATS!!! thanks for the idea of - dcc
      • Congratulations, and TKU for sharing your methods. - FBL
  • That is great! My best so far is about 1600 but I am a snail compared to most - nm - Laura E.
    • I've never even hit this, so I'm top snail here! :) nm - still wandering
      • But I dont' do that consistently, wish I did ! --normally do about 800 a day - sm - Laura E.
  • congrats! - good for you

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First and easiest is bill by the quarter hour (15 mins). Your 33 mins, 31 secs would be billed at .75/hour ($45).

The second would be to split the hour into 10-minute increments (6 mins each) and bill by the 1/10th hour. (This is what I had to do when I worked for a large printing company and we will per job.) Your 33 mins would be 0.6/hour ($36).

The second way is a little more tedious but you may find the customer is more amenable to that rather than the 1/4 hour. Also, the math still comes as second nature on that method even though it's been more than 17 years since I worked for that company.

Hi,

If you download the help file for MPLite (or MPWord or MPTools), there is a chapter on line counting. In it is a mention that the AAMT has disavowed their previous recommendation for a line count method, and a discussion of lines counts in general. You'll find it informative, and if you print the page your client may find it interesting as well.

vJoe

I have friends just starting out in MT (many still in school), and I think this is valuable information for them.  I've said the same thing to them all, that if you take this as seriously as you would any job you were doing in an office, devote your work time and attention to it, and do what is asked of you while trying to improve yourself, you will be able to succeed.  I have only been doing transcription for a few years, but I can see that I will be here for probably as long as transcription is around.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom...

It appears that I am not alone then IF this is truly the cause of my symptoms. I have only been off of Nexium for three days and haven't noticed a significant difference but I know it may just take some more time to get back to where I use to be as I had been on Nexium since the first part of January and I have been terribly sick for several months. 

The doctors have all ruled out just about everything they can think of so won't it be ironic if Nexium is the cause of my sickness after ALL the testing I have gone through?!? I don't care, as long as I get my health back. :)

As tears roll down my face and I sit here sobbing, I want to thank you for sharing this story.

Believe me, since my brother's recent passing (my only sibling) a few months ago, my life was really put into perspective and my goal is to let everyone I know how they have touched my life and how much I love them.

Even my Dad told me he loved for the second time that I remember in my whole life just a few months ago. Now, we both say it every time we see each other or speak to each other. That is a most precious gift to me. While my family was never affectionate, I knew they loved me and my mom & I were always close and said that to each other but having my Dad say this, well, I just can't describe the feelings. I really don't think he thought of saying it to tell you the truth, that he didn't realize it was so important for me to hear it until I got so sick, and I told him about how I only recalled him telling me he loved me once (before he had open heart surgery and was being wheeled to surgery).  I guess it just goes to show that people can change and do change - even at the age of 76! :D I love you too Daddy!

Thank you for taking the time to share what experiences you have encountered with those with PKD. It really helps for me to hear what others have gone through and have more of an idea of what to expect.

Believe me I have been reading a lot and I think I have a pretty good basic understanding of it all and what to expect but still hearing or knowing of what others have experienced puts things in a different perspective I think too. I know each course is going to be very individual as everyone is different.

Before I was even found to have the PKD, despite my labs being quite normal except for a couple values, I was so deathly ill and I "knew" I was dying. I was so desperate in finding help. My family saw me wasting away and felt I had little time left until I stopped some of my Rx meds on my own out of desperation and the nausea subsided where I could eat again. It was the most horrible thing I endured for that long of a time. This leads me to believe that the laboratory values are not the end all and that I may be just more sensitive than some and now maybe I can convince the doctors to take me more seriously. When they didn't know yet what was wrong, of course, as a last resort they thought depression. :( I was not depressed (upset, angry, frustrated-YES!) I am a very positive, happy-go-lucky type of person, and that is just my nature but when you are too ill to eat only about 400-500 calories a day for many days for weeks, it takes it toll quickly.I LOVE to eat and I was not anorexic by choice, let me tell you. :)

Again, thank you so much. 

experience!  Now I feel much more comfortable taking the plunge and calling them.  This will be great to not have to count my minutes anymore! 

Good resource.

Glad to give you that extra little "push."  As you adjust to your new methods I bet you'll see an even bigger increase in your paycheck!

I am so glad that you have decided to do this. I am proud of you for taking the initiative to do this.

We know that to MQ we are only a "number", so they will replace us with another "number", but this job has become so very stressful -- not knowing from minute-to-minute or hour-to-hour if there will be enough work for all of MQ MT's on our accounts !

going back to school.  I'm always amazed when people defend the future of MT.  I've seen it go from a clerk/typist job in the hospital that paid minimum wage to a "profession" to an assembly line job, with the assembly line  "out of jobs" a good bit of the time. 

At least they can't outsource dental work....but then the question will be whether anyone is going to be able to afford dental care or anything else for that matter.  I don't think it's just MTs who are suffering.  Everything is going up except wages, which are going down everywhere.  How can Americans, with our cost of living, compete with $15 a month workers?  I don't remember the Great Depression, wasn't born quite yet, but I sure remember my parents talking about it.  Their greatest fear was another Great Depression and I wonder if we're not about to see what it was all about.

This is one MT week you will remember!  Congratulations!!!