From 1965 to 1972. sm
Posted By: Millie Graham on 2006-04-07
In Reply to: Greensboro.... - mprice
It probably has been Atlanta-fied. I haven't been back in a long time. I was young and probably would have been happy anywhere. Sorry to hear that you are unhappy there. It used to be a nice city, at least in my opinion.
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SINCE 1965
OK, so now I really feel old. I started with a manual typewriter and used a tape recorder, forward, stop, reverse, forward, stop, reverse. Oh my, how long ago that now seems. No foot pedal, no headset, no electricity, just sat at the kitchen table (I worked this part time at home and full time in an office) and worked half the night.
In retrospect, though, we old timers really learned our skills and have never forgotten them.
Should be 1965. nm
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1972, and you?
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I learned in a hospital in 1965 (sm)
Believe it or not, there was no spell check back then, no QA - just a supervisor who hired me because I spelled "toxicology" right. It was the only medical word in the test. I'm not kidding. I "learned as I went." I have been doing this now for 30+ years. My work very rarely has medical spelling errors in it now. These newbies nowadays really have it pretty easy, IMO, what with autocorrect and all. We didn't even have shorthand, or anything like that. (I'm 59)
Started MT in 1972!! (sm)
Putting a date on that seems really really old!
Started in 1972, still at it
I do VR and make 4 for VR and 8 for regular but I have cut my hours to part time on my own and still make over 1000 every 2 weeks so that is okay with me. I made, working on fulltime basis, in the 1980s close to $60,000 a year but that probably was always fulltime and overtime thrown in. I, myself in the past, more concerned with the amount of money I could make than what kind of pat on the back I would get. I have done hospital, the 4s, with lots of speciality physician's offices on the side. I remember in the 80s I usually charged $20 per hour for outside work.
1972 Ford Pinto.
Actually, I was told that back in 1972.
When I started my first transcription job at the marvelous wage of $2.00 an hour. At that time, my friends who worked at McDonald's were only making $1.60--and I think, but I am not sure, that the women who worked in medical records (back then we called it "filing") were making less than me, because my job had a higher skill level. Even now, discussing one's pay rate can cause dissension in the ranks, because despite my nearly 37 years in the business, if you've only worked 10 years and you make 1/2 cent more per line than I do, it would seriously annoy me, and I don't want to get annoyed because it kinda ruins my day.
1965 Ford Mustang and a 1977 Chevy corvette
along with the 1997 Intrepid. The Stang is mine and the vette is hubby's. He got them real cheap (under $4000.00 for both) and fixed them up.
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