I feel the same and I find them truly boring.
Posted By: sm on 2006-03-28
In Reply to: Different view - DM7
And nowadays you are lucky to get the same MDs twice at most large nationals and most are ESL, so the money maker thing is becoming a thing of the past. I get mostly OPs but would take a good challenging consultation over a boring OP anytime! I don't know how anyone could like doing OPs long term. For me that would get old real fast.
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I find myself doing it if a particularly boring
long report or when I'm tired. I frequently nod off because I'm so tired and then end up having to relisten to the port at least once more, sometimes up to 4 times because I keep nodding off. My QA score is very high so I'm catching the errors, but my line count sucks. If I'm not tired I'm okay. I've worked 7 days/week the last 5 months and it is just hard to sit day after day and type/transcribe.
If your mind wonders go back and relisten to the entire dictation. If you find lots of errors, even minor ones, maybe that will help you focus more. If you need a nap, get a power nap. If you need to do some physical activity get up and do it. I work split shift as there is no way I could sit for 8 hours straight. I get up every 1-1/2 to 2 hours and do something to break the monotony.
Funny how people are different. I find islands/beaches to be totally boring.
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Read a boring book or watch something boring on TV.
Sometimes I go to bed so tired, but by the time I get in bed I'm not sleepy. I do one of the above and 15 minutes later I'm asleep. My DH works third shift so he isn't there for me to bother him, may not be an option for you.
I know how you feel but you better find something that works.
Last year was such a horrible time for me and my family. I was fighting a bout with major depression - officially diagnosed by a psychiatrist - but I had no alternative to extra income. I had a miscarriage, lost one of the most precious people to me in my life and eventually went downhill from there. I could not get motivated to do much work. Made a few hundred dollar paydays was all and I lost my home, lost my car, had to move somewhere I did not want to, my cat died at the same time. So many things went wrong and no matter how bad I needed the money (to save my home, my car, etc.) I could not get it together and I wish, oh how I wish, that I would have found some way. I know our instances may be different due to where I was major depressive at that point in time but the point it - find ANYTHING to get you motivated to stay on track. I don't want to see or hear of anyone go through what my family and I went through last year. And, again, I know different circumstances but could end in the same result. So maybe my story will get you motivated. Think of possibly losing it all and that will get you in gear.
Good news though - found a lovely place to live where the bills are so easy (got to move from the craphole we first had to move to), nicer than our home, so much more financial freedom where I can work less than what I was having to work just to keep our old home. Still working on the depression though - but am seeing the rainbow!
I have read some things before about getting on the ball. I get bored too. What helps me at times is I set a timer or watch the clock....Work as hard as I can for 1 hour and then take a small break (like 10 minutes) and then do it again. I am anxious to work hard to see what I can get in my hours time. Maybe it is trying to trick myself psychologically...lol...but it works.
Good luck to you! I think we all hit this at some point! But the nice paydays are VERY NICE when we get them! 
Don't feel ill - it look me a very long time to find it and you can too.
Search, search and search some more. You will be surprised what you can find. It takes time, but those accounts are out there. How do you think MTSO and large MT companies get accounts? A little research and many phone calls.
BORING!!!
Sand or tan walls, okay, if you want drab and boring go with sand and tan walls
Might be boring but
I'll take boring over nasty any day. I guess to each his/her own.
They are boring -
:(
It's no more boring than anything else.
MT will always be boring....
because it is a dead end job with no future. Try studying something that will provide a better living.
BORING...
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Not boring!
I have to say that it's not boring! I learn something new every day, even after doing this for 20 years. I think if you look at other professions other folks are griping too. It's all a matter of attitude! Make it work for you! It does pay the bills!
Not a big fan, went there twice & boring.
board might be boring that way though
But the work is boring . . . (sm)
Easy but boring clinic notes. Seems most of the accounts are clinics instead of "real" acute care transcription. Pay is low, too. Seems like really nice people, though -- they did everything they said they would when they said they would. That's rare!
by boring I mean very repetitive...
but easy to normalize. They use these tables for different degrees of muscle movement and stuff. Maybe you could get a sample from one of the other MT websites.
I agree that PT is boring. sm
When I worked in-house, we had to rotate days of doing PT notes, one day a week. Those days of doing PT notes seemed to never end. You may end up enjoying it, but I get bored easily and PT is very repetitive.
When they have bad/boring shows
it seems like there are new bottom 3 people chosen. I thought Mandisa had a good voice, but country was not her best (as the case for many of them). Also, poor song choice. Next week they sing Queen songs. I've been recording the shows because they're just not as good as they have been. I think Paula needs to cut down on her medication. She's beginning to slurrrrrr her words again.
Boring account
I've just been taken off my favorite work type and put on an extremely boring account. Lots of work but it is so dull. How can I keep my productivity up when I am yawning through these reports? I am quickly losing my incentive to stay at the keyboardj! Help! Any ideas? TIA
Boring reports
I did a 45-minute dictation the other day, which mostly consisted of the doctor saying, "Uh, um." LOL He was doing a review of records halfway through, reading them to himself as he went. I had to sit there listening to the silence! It really stinks too, because those pauses translate to less typing, which means a lower check for my aggravation.
Boring Account
When I get a boring account, I try to make as many abbreviations as I can and that helps the account go faster and keeps your mind on what new abbreviations you can make up (for your short cuts)
yawn - your tit-for-tat is more boring than your
<<<<>>>>>> got coffee?
But don't you think editing is boring? I would -- (nm)
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I think clinic notes are boring, you have the same
number of doctors usually and for the most part there isn't a lot of medical terminology and they have lots of normals, which is good because they you can have lots of macros/expanders to help, but I like learning from my dictation. With clinic notes I did know when viruses/illnesses were going around and what the standard treatment was, so I could try some of the same treatments if we got sick without a doctor visit, just after a while they were just boring. I much prefer acute care. I have lots of dictators so I don't get sick of hearing one doctor all day, although occasionally I do get a slew of the same dictator, the terminology is constantly changing, new drugs, new equipment, new procedures, etc.
Rehab is good. Might get a little boring to some
Rehab i
Easy but boring. Only thing I will ask sm
not to do. Also, there is the ---- factor with the doctor wannabes.
I wouldn't care if the job were boring, if
doctors would learn to dictate and give a flying flip in the wind how hard they are to transcribe day after day. If they had to transcribe their own dictations (or another physician's dictation) they might do better. So, it's not so much the boring part, it's the goof ball dictators who make my job miserable.
Let me see, VR versus straight, which is boring?
Hmmmmm, I don’t think so. I have had majority straight today and really do not like anymore- can fly when I have VR and make $$$$- straight only slows me down and like the bumper sticker I saw the other day- I am not speeding, I am qualifying! Loved that.
Ugh - 42 minutes of that boring junk.
Do they really think anybody is going to read all of that? Didn't any English teacher ever tell him the secret to good writing is LESS IS MORE??
How lazy not to be able to shorten it up to something brief yet complete. Shame on him. You poor thing.
meh, you're boring me now {{yawwwnn}}.
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But the help file is so long and boring to read.
I know about linking and hiding the suggestion window. Other than that, I don't know many semicolon or Ctrl functions. I put hospitalization in as hosn. I wish somebody would teach a Shorthand Expander class or come up with an in-depth book going over specific SH features. The other expander books I bought were lame.
Chris is a boring one-trick pony. (nt)
They are boring but easy, and you can make a lot of money. nm
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Agree, totally boring! My least favorite for sure.
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I do agree with the boring part, but I handle it like I do
Drink beer and eat chocolate!!
I'm joking, of course...
The only thing that keeps me MTing is the money (I'm in that 4 to 5K/month bracket), the convenience, and the fact that I don't think I could ever work with people again after being at home for so long (a conference call with other MTs a couple weeks ago sealed that one for me!).
I am not complaining. MTing has been VERY good to me (not a gift, though... I work hard and have good work ethics), but as far as being rewarding as a work experience only, it's really not for me personally.
...BUT I do like being able to afford my beer and chocolate!! ;-)
I agree, and I work for MQ! Sooo boring, soooo old, and
you would think they'd realize how idiotic they look - whining and whining and predicting doom and gloom! Honestly, MQ and Philips is BOOMING in the business world right now. Huge advances the last few months - HUGE sales of products, advances, awards in the industry. I get email alerts daily on the HUGE growth of MQ - and these old sea-hags just sit on here and cackle about DOOM. Boy, do they need a reality check, or what? All is fine in MQ world, and always, always will be! As long as you're willing to work and have a brain, MQ is a great place to work! Oh, yeah, and I'm mgmt - making 6 figures and even remotely interested in sea-hag opinions! That is just soooooooooooooo lame, too! Or maybe I'm the same poster from below who always uses CAPS! That is sooooooooooo funny. Cracked up at that analysis - some of these women have way toooooooo much time on their hands rather than hitting the keyboard! Analysing posts to compare typing styles. Give me a break! What a hoot!
oops - typo - "boards might be BORING that way - not nasty - sorry
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I've been hearing this for years, haven' t you.? It gets boring.
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I've been doing lots of dental notes. Not boring at all
when you think about the ease and money you can make cuz they always say the same things. I'd take it.
I thinks it incredibly boring. I miss Carter. I wonder how the
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Geez, orthopedic surgery is boring and tedious.
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go to chat room on web site and find out. i'm working but if you find out, let me know.
creepy dude.
I found pain clinic to be very boring, but you can rack up a lot of lines with all the repetitious
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I find most of my abbreviations here. Scroll all the way down until you find the abbreviation box.
http://www.mtchat.com/frame.php?frame=message
if you feel like that after 12 years, and I feel like that after six months
what hope is there?
I feel people who feel like this post
needs to a) either be a stay at home mother and not work or b) realize that she is no queen bee and I could care less about a degree. What company out here that you know of compensates for having a degree? Means nothing to them. Your working and being there when they assign/need/require/whatever is what you should do IF YOU WANT A JOB in this field, otherwise get out and do something else or become that babysitter.
No need to feel badly for me - feel badly for an adult who has no control of his/her own life!
I hope these people didn't produce any daughters! Bad, bad example!
Or after a boring weekend when working at a hospital someone asks "How was your weekend?" and
I didn't find an 800 number, but I did find this number...
1 650-253-0000
I know how sad you must feel
Yes, you will love her forever, and someday you will be able to think of the good times you had with her, and you will be able to laugh. 
I know how you feel. :)
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