I completely agree with the advice below. Without your books, Google.

• Any tips for MTing on the road? - academia
  • Also check with the hotel - - Tanya G
  • I completely agree with the advice below. Without your books, Google. - Traveling MT
  • Rely more on googling then (nm) - MoodyJen

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when EVERYONE criticizes how the government is run and how they do things? Why put your life and those of your family in jeopardy waiting on the government to help you. What happened to PEOPLE helping each other?  People seeing that their elderly neighbors get to safety? People pulling together to solve these issues? Why do so many seem to be waiting to see what the government can do for them??  The government has enough problems!  I certainly would not rely on the government for ANYTHING!  Do these people want to government telling them what to do in their everyday lives?  If so, move to a country with no democracy! 

  I'm finished for the time being.. but WAKE UP PEOPLE!

and believe me, they don't give a patient a discount because they feel guilty. They don't give the employees yearly raises. While they (and the 2 office managers) get their bonuses and go buy brand new cars, SUVs, boats, vacation homes and, yes, even airplanes, they have plenty of employees struggling to make ends meet. One employee (that I know of, a newly divorced woman) recently took bankruptcy and our insurance is so bad that most of us can't afford to even go to the doctor as we have $2,600 deductible for a single person!  I would NOT feel guilty one bit!  

I love it when they say thank you.  It makes me smile every time.  It also makes me smile and chuckle a little when I get one that will laugh at themself when he/she gets tripped up on their words.

As another poster said, our bodies "know" when we have typed a certain number of lines.  Having worked for various transcription companies, I found it difficult to even reach the minimum lines with many of these places.  I feel very fortunate to have found an MTSO that is honest.  Guess what, I am transcribing over 2,000 lines in 5 or 6 hours!  I am saving every penny possible because I know it will not last forever.  

nice post!

wanting to catch porn sites. 

Why does the US always have to be so darn politically correct.  We are going to //politically correct//outselves right out of existence one of these days.  Kiind of like that song that says you gotta stand for something or you won't mean anything.  We need some boundaries here.  *They* won't even let us have a common thread running through our nation anymore of having English-spoken-here to have us be a unified country.  They have fractured us to the point where we DO STAND FOR NOTHING.

have Stedman's Medical Dictationary on CD and I do use it quite a bit, but that's more because the actual print dictionary is so darn heavy to pick up and look a word up!

be sure your resume is flawless, succinct, and easy to read.  I use bullets in some sections and even clipped sentences to keep it to one page.  You can find a lot of info online on resume writing.  It's pretty important because it will immediately get dumped in the 'round file' if it doesn't stand out somehow or has a lot of mistakes in it, needs to stand out from the rest.  Do you have any other related experience in a medical field of any kind?  Include that... even though it doesn't count towards transcription experience, it will let the company know that you have some medical knowledge and are aware of things thay may not sound correct in a report and that you can think on the fly and correlate everything in your brain while you're transcribing when a doc is dictating something that sounds off, not just mindlessly typing everything dictated.

When you email inquiring about the position, ask if they would allow you to test for them.  It's been a while and times were different then, but that's how I got my first job, asked them to let me test anyway.  If you come off well on personal phone calls, call those who don't exclude calls in their ads.

Did your school not provide job leads or assistance in job search?  Did they provide you with a letter of reference upon completion of the course?

Good luck, it's tough out here these days, but if you can get your foot in the door somehow, like others said in-house somewhere maybe, which would be best, or convince someone to let you show them your stuff with testing... Unfortunately, it seems like pay for this field has steadily gotten worse since I started, with more and more required, so it will probably be slow going for you when you do land a job.  Even the in-house jobs around here are scarce as hen's teeth.  By any chance, are there any small local transcription operations around you that could maybe use a little help?  You could try getting your own accounts, but I think that would be really tough not having any experience and with all the competition and changes in this field.

Good luck to you.  Don't give up if it's what you really want and are willing to devote yourself to it, going to take lots of sweat and tears.  I would get back with my school for sure and ask for some assistance!