Does anyone agree with you? Maybe your alter ego who Amens your posts may.

You are like Clinton backtracking and qualifying and parsing.  So if you don't want to be like Clinton say what you mean and mean what you say.  You are POd that people in joke or otherwise find fault with MQ.  Be brave and proud enough to say so and go on with your life.  Embarrassed by anonymous posters.  That tops everything! 

BTW, you don't really need to use that shouting font do you? 

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it may be hard getting a job with a company with no experience in actual transcription.  My suggestion is to approach your local doctors and see where that leads.  Actually, there is more money in having your own accounts.  

My story is similar to Michigan MT.  I had medical schooling, but not for MT.  I worked for a group of physicians and started doing their transcription on the side.  When I left that office, I got a job at the local hospital as a transcriptionist.  Now I am working at home for a different hospital.  

If you can find a company that will give you a chance and let you take their test, you may get lucky, but most require several years experience in actual transcribing.  I think the best chance you have (without going to school) is to try to get a local account first to get the experience.   Good Luck!  

P.S.  You may want to get a copy of AAMT Book of Style, which contains many standard rules for transcription.      

If that poster has this NEED to believe everything our govt spews out as the Gospel.....well, it's that poster's HUGE LOSS.  Obviously they are ill-informed about the other side of the coin.  To each his/her own....one can only lead a horse to water, cannot make that horse drink....if they want to live under a rock, it's their choice.

I, on the other hand, wish to be MORE informed than what the US Media tells us about......

Not trying to hurt your feelings or anything, but that's just the way it is.

.....I guess you really don't have a life...on here all day and now all night...what a

L-O-S-E-R!

he speaks perfect English, especially when asking for money!  Also, in my opinion, blanks should be left in the doc's dictation if not able to be transcribed, maybe then they will know that are NOT understood.  With QA fixing them, what need is there for them to care if we understand them or not? 

Just to clarify, this is straight transcribing, no VR.  I've been with the company only a week now and have not actually started doing "live" jobs, still in training and getting used to the program which is MedRite XL.  I was previously with MQ using DocQScribe which I found EXTREMELY easy, pretty straight forward typing.  Hadn't been on ASR there yet either as I left before the required training.  MRXL seems to be a bit more complicated, but then again I've been on the system for only a few days and am still learning.  As with anything, practice makes perfect!

I am not required to use the function keys and I have not been threatened if I do use the mouse.  My trainer highly suggests I use the function keys instead of the mouse as she says it will increase my speed and my productivity.  That may be so, but I still feel much more comfortable with the mouse and I usually produce 200-250 lph.  There again, I could probably do more lph but I don't use Expanders a whole heck of a lot.  I know if I could get comfortable with the function keys and expanders my productivity would probably increase dramatically, but I am of the mindset I don't want to take the time for a learning curve. I just want to sign on and start transcribing according to my comfort level.  I know I could constantly look at my cheat sheet, but then that would slow me down at first and I would probably get very frustrated.  Maybe if I could think in terms of what type of command the CTRL key does, what type of command the shift key does, what type of command the ALT key does, that might help.  But there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what key does what and it seems to be just all memorizing, which at my age is kind of hard to do.  Have too many other things swimming around in my head!  Anyway, I just wanted to get an idea of how many MTs use the function keys vs the mouse, and if I was still back in the dinosaur age.  Thank you all

What works for me is setting up tasks or meetings in Outlook. It works for both procrastination and forgetfulness. I have everything in there, so the reminders pop up all the time.  If you find yourself wandering on the net, etc., while trying to transcribe, set up a reminders for yourself that say something like "how's your line count?". When it comes up snooze it for 2 more hours or an hour, so you can't get too sidetracked. I also put everything on my tasks list, chores, phone calls, bills to mail, etc., with reminders. It helps. I try too keep the number of tasks on my list down to a certain number. If I'm really busy, I might increase the number of allowed tasks for a few days. I can go through the tasks and reminders and reorganize them by making the due date/time for high priority stuff sooner and lower-priority stuff later.  When I'm done for the day at the computer, I print the task list and knock off the non-computer related tasks like phone calls, bills, etc. It's always nice to delete some of the tasks, and very little slips by undone anymore.