I've lived in CA my whole life,
Posted By: CrankyBeach on 2009-04-21
In Reply to: California MT's - rand_man
and I was offered several jobs. Yes, the cost of living is sky-high here, and I couldn't make it on what I'm being paid by the national I work for if I didn't still have one local account who pays me an obscene amount of money and is happy to do so because I do good work. (It ain't bragging if you can do it. Didn't Babe Ruth say that?) When my supervisor who lives in South Carolina found out what I'm paying for rent, she said shucks, girl, you gotta come out here, and I said no way, they wouldn't let me past the state line 'cause I can't talk like they do!
But seriously... this is home, and I really can't envision living anywhere else. My supervisor has been hesitant to authorize overtime for me because of the hoops the employer has to jump through, but in practical fact it has been never been actually necessary for me to work OT.
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I have lived here all my life and never
have I heard the word Kruk…Maybe the person was tongue-tied and could not pronounce the word truck and called it kruk instead? I am originally from Tenn and my hubby is amazed at how I talk and I have forgotten the name for the sayings but I grew up with them and they come so natural for me- up the creek without a paddle, don't be left high and dry, making a mountain out of a mole hill, a gut feeling, like looking for a needle in a haystack, cost me an arm and a leg and on and on. He says, what??? Well, bless his heart.
Actually, I lived in California my ENTIRE life...
until moving to Utah for the past several years. Utah state tax is ldefinitely lower, but I NEVER paid 40% while living in CA. We're moving back after the first of the year, and our biggest worry is the cost of houses, not the taxes. 
I've never lived there but
know a good friend of mine from Michigan, who is an MT, who moved there. She doesn't live in Denver but Pueblo and the last I heard from her, her and her family really love it there!
Best wishes to you.
Lived in Germany for 5 years - best place I ever lived!
I found the people very warm and helpful, the food is to die for, and if you like beer (I do not, but this is what hubby tells me), it is the best in the world! The downside now is with the conversion to the euro things do seem much more expensive (was just back there to visit last Decemeber). Still, I would live there again in a heartbeat! :-)
I can believe it - I've never had a resume in my life, and I'm 59.
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I've never been fired by anyone in my entire life.
I hate MQ and I'm happy to tell everyone why. However, every MT is different and every MTSO is different. What works for me may not work for someone else. I found my fit elsewhere.
And we've discussed this before on this board. Life is not that
simple for me. If I leave the state, I leave my elderly parents that I care for and I leave my minor children because they legally cannot cross state lines without their father's permission. He's not going to OK that. Besides, I'm happy doing MT. Who ever said I was not happy doing MT? It works great with all the family I have to care for. I just wish I hadn't wasted time and money going to college, especially when the job market in my state got oversaturated with other college grads.
One thing I've learned in life is it's impossible to
stand up for themselves. Maybe only 1 in 100 will even try. Sad to say, but we've brought a lot of this onto ourselves.
I don't know! I've heard people live longer with a healthy sex life.
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Life is life....the haven't bonded the same as if it were a 2-year-old!
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believe what you want, I lived....sm
I lived out west for 10 years, in that area.....lots of nuclear dumping sites....area 51.....
oh, perhaps you're not familiar with area 51.... White Sands, New Mexico....all kinds of good (being facetious) stuff buried out west............
I have lived in NC since I was 12, so about
19 years. My mother used to work in a hotel, and my step-father worked as a furniture peddler. He stayed in the hotel where she was working and it was love at first sight! They have been married for 18 years now and are very happy. I also got a sister out of the deal after having been an only child for 13 years...lol.
I love Maine in the summertime, and obviously because my family is there, but I don't think I would move back. I am so used to not having to deal with all the snow. I think that is probably the major difference. Here we have 4 seasons. There, winter lasts for a long, long time. I remember being little and having huge amounts of snow on my birthday....in APRIL!
The food is also different in a lot of ways. They drink sweet tea up there, but it didn't catch on for quite some time, and it still isn't like it is here in the south. I don't drink tea though, guess that's the Yankee coming out in me...lol.
And of course there is the accent thing. It's funny, but even after living here for so long, when I go up there to visit, I pick up my northern accent all over again, although normally I talk with a southern drawl.
I do miss 'home', but I don't really think I could go back permanently. I can't deal with the cold anymore...LOL.
I make sure the job is not my life and that it does not take over my life. sm
I have been at this 25 years, even once had my own accounts and worked 24/7 with cat naps to keep going but no real sleep. I really burned myself out. Now I work a regular 40-hour week, but it is not my life. It is a means of making money so I can go live my life. I work for a company that is not all about production. They want us to take our time and do it right. I am doing that, and it feels so good to be able to work at my craft and be allowed to do a good job while I am at work.
But after I get off, I have my family and I take time to have fun and enjoy life. I think that is the key to not staying burned out. You need down time, time to have fun, exercise, relax, etc.
Exercise is very important, too. It rejuvenates the hormone system so you have more positive hormones flowing through your body and helps get rid of stress.
That's what I do.
Always wonder how I lived this long! LOL
The stupid things we used to do and never thought anything of it until later in life and wonder how the heck I lived this long!
lived there last year - sm
had difficult time getting freelance work. I thought it was pretty funny that the hospitals in Tampa and St. Pete would go to an outside service for their overflow and pay $0.14-0.18/line, however, would not utilize me as a prn transcriptionist. Moffitt Cancer Center wanted me to drive all the way from south tampa one way for $12/hour on a prn basis. But if I wanted to be full time, I would start at $9/hour. However, Moffitt had no problem bringing in transcriptionists from Kforce and paying the COMPANY hourly rate of $33/hour (per transcriptionist), hotels, rental cars, per diem, and overtime for all six transcriptionists, and travel back and forth to their home state every 10 days. Had to laugh!
Kindred Hospital is screaming for transcriptionists, yet, they would not let me work for them, inhouse, on an as needed basis until the positions were filled. They had a two month backlog, and I lived 20 minutes away and the woman I spoke to said no. I told her I was moving in a month and could produce 1800 lines/day, knew their transcription system backwards and forwards, and wanted to be paid $0.10/line. Answer was still no. They are outsourcing it at a higher rate.
Yes, she lived it. I'm curious though,
had her and her siblings at an early age and parenthetically added something about "hormones and no sex education". But now when people talk about programs that inclue "sex education" a lot of neocons freak out and say abstinence is the only way to go and cut funding for education, so what do you do about that? How realistic is abstinence? This is not an ideal world, after all. How do we break the cycle of babies having babies and the cycle continuing for generations?
lived in Texas too
I posted to you about where to look. We also lived in Dallas and they are overpriced too. You don't pay a state income tax in Florida, but there are a lot of hidden sales taxes and such. The problem with living on the water is you can't get insurance and if you find it, it's extremely high. We left Florida and went to Biloxi, Mississippi and it was about half the cost of Florida and we were 1 block from the beach. We had planned to go back but it will take a few years to be rebuilt. In the meantime, heading to TN as they do not have a state income tax, a vehicle tax, and the property taxes are much much less.
have you ever lived in the south?
If not, then don't make negative comments about people you know nothing about.
have ya ever lived with a techie?
eaten with a techie? worked with a techie? have ya ever listened in on the techie's side of the conversation while setting up an MT?
This isn't a problem exclusive to one company. And the problems techies have aren't all their fault or the company's fault. Can you imagine being the techie that tries to train the MT that asks if the CD tray is the cup holder? (yeah, this stuff is real). It takes a tremendous amount of self discipline not to hang up on a clue-less MT and even if the MT is very computer savvy, that MT's equipment might have unique challenges that take more time than expected. Image a techie's surprise when after trying to identify a problem, the MT lets out a final piece of information not given before and the techie has to start over from scratch.
Techies are a breed unto themselves and putting personal blame on the techies really is unfair. I still defend them even if I think they are weird (that's okay, they think I'm weird too).
Give your local techie a hug today 
my most embarassing was when I lived
with no doors and the bedroom was a loft with the parrot downstairs.
When my partner and I became amorous, the bird went nuts and started screaming. Didn't help to shove pillows in each other's faces either!
Of course he repeated what he heard during the day when I had visitors...humuliations galore!
You haven't lived until you have
been woken up at 1:48, 2:37, 3:12 and 5:07 a.m. to windows shaking from Mexican rap music blaring from almost 2 blocks away and then getting yelled at by the 911 dispatcher over and over again saying that 911 is not for noise complaints. Well if they would have taken care of the problem the first time, I would have stopped calling. One 911 dispatcher was really sweet though because she could hear the music when I stood outside talking on my cell phone. Usually the first time the police go out there, they stop the music but they must have new people staying with them as they kept playing the same Tequila song over and over (only word I understood was Tequila). Then when the police went over there these idiots pretended not to speak English, speak Spanish when the officer tries to speak to them in Spanish or read the complaint printed up in Spanish. Tomorrow I'm searching for the owner of the house online and will start complaining to them as will the rest of my neighbors. You also haven't lived until you have seen some of your neighbors out in their pjs at 3 a.m. trying to do a Mexican hat dance. I'm thinking maybe they too were consuming mas tequila.
Well, I have surely lived then!
Not Mexican - rap music as loud as it can be played coming from somewhere behind my house on almost a nightly basis around 2 a.m. The thing that makes me the most annoyed is that it is literally the same song OVER and OVER and OVER for two hours or more! I just want to scream, "At least get a new song!" Ugggghhhh!
I lived in Portland for a while...(sm)
but I am back in Iowa now and wouldn't go back to Portland for the world. It's beautiful, but I guess I just like my four seasons and all the wonderful reasons to live in Iowa!
I lived with a crackhead. nm
Has anyone ever lived overseas?....sm
A friend of mine is moving to Italy and I am really considering going with her. Just wanting to know if anyone has lived outside of the US (not necessarily in Italy, just anywhere).
Thanks
If DSL was not available where I lived, I'd HAVE to move!
I lived in Virginia for a while.
I thought it was pretty funny that my ex and his family where always carrying people somewhere. "I have to carry mom over to the store."
only if I lived in India where everything else is
I use EXText with my current job and I've used at a couple of other jobs I've had. I've ne
used DocQscribe, but I have used Meditech, Cerner, Vianeta, the Precyse platform (I can't remember the name), Dolbey, and Lanier platform I think was called Cequence (?).
Out of all the different platforms I have typed on, I have liked EXText the best. In my opinion, it's very user friendly, easy to learn, and I really like ESP which is the built in abbreviation expander. Plus it is very easy to create your own normals which I love. My fingers literally never leave the keyboard because there are macro keys for everything. You can use your mouse if you prefer or learn the function macros. I love it. I think I'm more productive on EXText than with any other platform.
I thought YOU were the only one that lived in Idaho,,,,,
:I
We lived on Riverfront Drive but
Silly huh?
Lived in a trailer for years
The only reason I'm not still in one is because I moved in with my boyfriend who had a bigger house. If I was by myself, I would buy another trailer. I was always perfectly happy in mine; actually, I loved it, and could afford it, without going into serious debt. I would buy a newer trailer right now if my boyfriend would agree, because I hate a 2-story, but haven't convinced him yet.
Lived there when little, couldn't pay me enough to live
there now. Don't even like to visit family there.
Lived there for 20 years, moved
back up north 5 years ago, so glad I did. Would't even visit family down there after I moved. Now all family has moved back up with us. Wouldn't ever, ever go in July or August, the heat and humidity are so bad. 95 degree heat and 90% humidity. Its like trying to breath in a suana or steam bath. Storms every afternoon. The bugs are terrible also.
Met him in the apartment complex I lived in.
We were just friends for about a year and a half. I was newly divorced and not ready to have a relationship, but we became great friends. Here we are 11 years later - happy, happy, happy!!!!
Sure wish you lived close to me. I'd take the dog in a flash (sm)
We lost our lab/retriever 2 years ago from root nerve tumor and still miss him. I think it's time we get another one so we can stop mourning our babe.
Please DON"T take him to an SPCA or any shelter like them. I, and many others, have had horrific experiences with our local shelters. It breaks my heart to see all those animals without homes and wish I could bring them all home but, unfortunately, cannot...and I will not adopt a dog from their shelters, either, due to their "higher than thou" attitude. Take it from one who knows, they are only interested in the money they receive from tugging at people's heartstrings, not the animals themselves. They came on our property when we weren't home and stole two irish setters that were left from a litter that were promised to someone with a very good reputation, I might add, and then told that person they had to euthanize the pups because they were sick. They were NOT sick. They had all their shots and wormed, etc., and definitely not sick. The worse part was that they had my 14-yo son SIGN a paper stating they had PERMISSION to take them. I really could have caused trouble for them but didn't have the money to pursue it (lawyer fees). Two weeks later, their picture was in the newspaper up for adoption!
These worker should work twice as hard trying to find homes for them instead of stealing other peoples dogs and then asking for money every other week. 
We have always adopted from people who are moving out of area, are elderly and can no longer take care of their pets, from friends, etc.
Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. but that's my 2 cents.
I disagree. If I lived in predominantly
Jewish area and people were wishing me Happy Hannukkah (forgive the spelling, please), it cannot possibly offend me just by them saying that. Their wishes toward me do mean that I must recognize their holiday. People who do that are looking to be offended so they can have something to be upset about.
Sounds like a few people are bah-humbug because they cannot control what others say to them. Well, it's called freedom of speech and there is a post on up this page about Paul Harvey that states it very well.
If someone doesn't want to be told Merry Christmas or Happy Hannukkah or whatever the tidings are, they need to move out away from anyone and live alone as a hermit.
I agree w/Donna - I lived 10 yrs....sm
In the 70s, I spent 10 years out west, 4 in Denver Colorado (not far enough SW for my liking and too cold), 3 in Tucson, 3 in Santa Fe, New Mexico (my most favorite place in the US and even have a bedroom all done in the SW style from things I collected way back then). The real SW culture is wonderful, one IS never bored, all kinds of things to check out and do. When I die, it's where I want my ashes scattered, over the Sangre DE Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe and Taos.
Bermuda - lived there 2 years
Lovely island. Their seasons are same as East Coast -- semi-tropical summers, rainy & cold winters. Island is long and thin. Great snorkeling. If you want nightlife and restaurants, stay in St. George or in Hamilton. (Princess Hotel is nice, too). Otherwise an expensive cab ride. No car rentals - scooters only. Drive on left side of road with roundabouts rather than traffic lights in most places. No 7-11s and stores generally close by 6 p.m. Take lots of money as things are expensive. Give my regards to the Swizzle Inn !!
Lived in Germany for 2 years
Going to Ireland in a few months.
Roanoke-lived there for years
You can email me if you have any questions. I haved lived there for years.
I think you would like it.
Lived on St. Simons years ago
NM
Wish you lived by me - we could go together, two oldies but goodies
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I lived in So. Cal in 1979 and they lines were atrocious.
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My DH lived 1/4 mile from my childhood home,
can't you tell I'm a country kid. I thought he was a geek when he was younger (he knows this), he was a looker in high school but had a steady girlfriend and was subsequently engaged, then she left him and he went in the service. Once he came home I was totally surprised at what a great man he'd become, a hottie and a really nice guy too! Her loss was my gain and the rest is history as that was 26 years ago and he's still the love of my life!
I loved Arizona - I lived in Tucson....sm
see? I'm telling ya, it's a small world. I spent nearly 10 years out west in the 1970s.....Tucson for 3 years (worked at Pima College and other places), Santa Fe, and Denver. Came back to the east coast in 1980!! In Tucson I also worked for Desert Cycles, a dirt bike store on Speedway!!! Flagstaff was a tad too cold for me. *lol*
I lived in France for 3 years. Dad was in the Army. sm
I think it would be a terrific opportunity for you to go. If you don't like it, you can always return to US. However, if you don't go, you'll regret it later in life.
I vacationed in Italy and it's wonderful.
Go! Bella Italia! Bella, bella!
I lived in England for 3 months and France..sm
Lived in England - 12 miles SE of London for 3 months and people were pretty nice. This was at the time that cops in England never carried guns, but I think that has changed by today's standards.
My inlaws (now outlaws) live in France and there are 7 first cousins there. I lived there for 3 months and got to go to Florence and Siena and Feisole, Italy. They do like Americans in Italy. As for France, they only don't like Americans in the northern part (the closer you get towards Germany). They are so much nicer and more tolerant in the South of France...Nice, Aix-en-Provence, and all the wine-growing part of the country.
Also traveled for weeks through Sweden, Denmark, and Amsterdam Holland. Europe is certainly beautiful!
flying BACK to Manhattan where I lived -
had to stay where I was for another two weeks until flights were scheduled to fly into LGA.
my mother lived in England for years..
but she was born here. Her English does not sound British but a little "fancier" sounding than most Americans. I get this British hem/onc doctor once in a while who for some reason is just difficult even though he speaks clearly.
She allowed a person who lived in her house, an 18-year-old
to go to Aruba. My rules when you live in my house no matter how old you are, visitor or family.
Mrs. Twitty is backing down from her behavior as is her attorney and the Aruban people are demanding it. Spouting out of control emotionally is not helping her cause nor gathering sympathy for her plight. She created this madness even to the point of offending the Aruban people.
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