I've taken on lots of odd jobs, even nonMT ones, to pay debts.

• Extra shift or extra work - tia
  • second job killed me on taxes, so I found a job - bendardondat
    • Where do you find a job like that? - tia2
      • sm - bendardondat
        • sm2 - bendardondat
          • Not exactly ethical, nor is it legal. nm - yea but
            • WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT ETHICAL - ITS WAITRESSING -sm - bendardondat
              • I think they meant not reporting your income - muttonhead
            • Yeah, that's why I wanted to know what it was. - tax evasion
              • LOL - definitely
  • I got a second job 3 weeks ago to - me
  • Work 2 jobs here to pay off home improvement. sm - Exhausted
  • Thanks for the input. - tia
  • Yes, I have 2 jobs-- the 2nd one covers what my DH used to make at a side job- sm - Laura E.
  • I've taken on lots of odd jobs, even nonMT ones, to pay debts. - I have.
  • If you can increase your work load with current company - BTDT
  • Yes, you probably would be more - stressed. I currently work 2

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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.

For a long time MTing was a stable career (it transferred all acros the country) and a respected one.

Now it is a scam operation. 

There are jobs we never would have considered before because we thought we had valuable skills (typing speed, education, knowledge of medicine/drugs, dialects, computers).  But that value has been brought down to below burger-flipping pay.  In fact most days lately I would have been making more at Burger King.

That's why I say go LOOK.  You will be surprised that you can be paid more for "showing up" than for what you know.  SAD ISN'T IT.  But that's what's going on right now.

They scammed people into thinking "oh a stay-at-home highly paid job"  NOT.

They were taking your money to train you for 6 weeks or 6 months and telling you were qualified enough to do transcription from home without supervision BUT IN MOST CASES YOU CAN'T SO DON'T TRY - but in the meantime these fly by night MT training companies have your $2000 or whatever.  That's the scam.

If hospitals really wanted MTs they would do MT trainee programs.  That's how most of us learned.  The hospitals just got lazy and looked for the easy out which has cost them through the nose and along the way they lost control of the medical records to boot. 

Look around out there.  Don't keep letting these companies make millions off your road to bankruptcy.  And they can surely take you there while you are hanging on trying to make it work.  It's not going to.  The big suits are not going to let you make money - they are going to shuffle the way the money is divided and the most will go to them.  What used to be our benefits is now their profit.  It's really pretty simple.

as a foster parent.  Here's some suggestions for you:

1. Don't negotiate a kid's negative behavior like that counselor recommended all of the time - make negotiating  a rarity instead of the actual standard rule.  YOU are the parent and in charge, not the child.  If you negotiate then they'll always think that life is a big negotiation pool. 


2. Be consistent.  Set up the house rules and consequences/rewards and even write them out for the child.  For example, set up a sticker chart and every day the child brushes his teeth without being told twice to do so he gets a sticker, and when he gets "x" stickers accumulated he gets a small prize.  In my house we have what is called a  grab bag, which contains items that I got at the dollar store.  The grab bag is  a dark laundry bag and the child cannot see in there - they have to reach in there and grab a prize out.  On the other hand - anytime the child misbehaves, i.e. does something to make the younger sibling cry on purpose, they lose a sticker.   Kids his age usually do well with having to obtain around 10 stickers to get rewarded. 


3. Talk with the teacher about what is going on and ask them to try techniques to help build his self-esteem.  Oftentimes they'll do things like this by asking your child if they'd like to be the team captain for a game.  A lot of schools have school counselors available for free, so if this is available ask the school counselor to also spend time with him.


4. Socialize your child as much as possible with other kids.  Sports are great for this and allows them to burn off energy.  Playgrounds are superb as well. 


5. I also love the John Rosemond stuff - he's great on getting kids negative behaviors turned around.


6. Most importantly make sure your child knows you love him.  Spend a few minutes each day snuggling/loving on him or at least trying to.  There will be days he'll be refractory to this but other days he'll appreciate it. 


7. Never speak negative about his biological father to him or when he can hear you.  Kids don't understand when they have a parent that is bad and things like this often cause them to misbehave more.  I've had kids come to me whose parents were horrible parents/people yet the child still loves them. 


8. Don't forget to take time out for yourself.  Enjoy that bubble bath!

Feel free to e-mail me if you have any further questions.  Good luck!

Some of them VERY severe, including head injuries when the person bounced off the trampoline and landed on his/her head.

ANYTHING can be dangerous if you aren't careful.  Way back in the disco era, I typed a report on a guy who had fractures of ALL FIVE metatarsals - from dancing!! 

Is it the typing that's getting you or the subject matter?  Maybe try general or insurance transcription?  I did secretarial work at home for a while, bookkeeping, typing, resumes, insurance typing, databases, mail merges.  I did mystery shopping, but couldn't make any money at it.

I sold on eBay by going to yard sales in the hot afternoon and offering people $1 a box to haul off their leftovers.  Or go early in the morning so you can snap up the collectibles.  Run an ad in the paper that you're buying certain collectibles.  Estate sales and auctions are good sources of stuff, too.  I once paid $12 for several boxes of junk that I sold for $800.  eBay does get tiring quite often between finding packing materials; finding inventory to sell; answering people's emails because they can't bother to read the auction instructions; nonpaying bidders; blatant liars; driving to the post office every day, etc.

I've done some other WAHM jobs but, again, eBay and transcription make the most money for me from my home.

xxx

Hello!  Email me if you still need sites for OP notes - I have quite a few good ones I can send you...

Laura

On one of my personal computers where I had (as usual) TONS of AutoCorrects and AutoTexts stored every once in a while Word would freeze up or close down (I forget now which) and everything would be lost.  So, I made sure to back up the normal.dot and the .acl (I haven't had to do this for a few years so I'm not sure I have that 100% correct) often so I could reinstall them.   I also saved the documents I was working on every few minutes and made that easier by changing the F12 button to a "Save" button.  One day I had a brilliant idea and went in to AutoCorrect Options and unchecked everything I could that was not important to me and it stopped happening!  I only mention this in case someone else out there has this problem.   

But I have TONS and TONS of entries and I have never had one just disappear without some other reason for it other than I had too many in there. 

Acute care is so much broader as far as need for knowledge of terminology in many different specialities.  Clinic transcription can be of any specialty, but usually if you have a clinic account it will be limited to one or two specialties. 

There are many different work types in acute care.  Clinic work consists of mostly a history, physical exam, and plan.   Acute care includes things such as operative notes, consultations, etc.  which are "a whole different ballgame" as far as terminology.