I guess I'm the odd ball; I LOVE going to home parties! sm

• who hates candle parties? - boobie
  • I hate any of those "obligated to buy junque at a party" parties - Really annoying
  • I go, I chomp down on the free food, and I leave my wallet at home! (nm) - Hungry
  • I never go to any of these things...sm - Georgia gal
  • Me - I hate these things too. Both of them. sm - Demonstration Hater
  • I guess I'm the odd ball; I LOVE going to home parties! sm - Grace
    • I enjoy going to them and hosting - sm
    • I ment to say gift shopping. nm - Grace
  • Don't mind candles, Pampered Chef, or Tastefully Simple. HATE Mary Kay parties! nm - nm
    • There's another one similar to Mary Kay... sm - JustMe
  • What I don't understand - Maxie
  • I do, so I never go, even if my own family is hosting. nm - A real party pooper!
  • I make my own candles - easier that way, and fun! - nm
    • Now there's an idea - a candle MAKING party! - Now that would be fun! nm
    • Can you tell me how you make them? SM - I LOVE CANDLES!
      • sure... - candle maker
  • hate how you are made to feel - me2me2
    • Those companies count on that - Darlahood
  • Me absolutely! Always overpriced for things I - really don't want or need! Party Pooper

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I've only seen the first one at the movies, but I'm not much of a movie or TV person.  More of a reader. Can't wait to get the book to add to the collection.  Started the collection with my son who has lost interest at 15.  He looks like Harry though.  He went to the playground one day when he was 12 (dark hair, little round glasses) and all of the little kids were screaming, "It's Harry Potter!  It's Harry Potter!" and running after him.  He said, "MOM, IT WAS AWFUL!"  He now has contact lenses and he put his magic wand away.

I got into medical transcription for many reasons.  Yes, one was that I wanted to be home with my children, another was that I wanted to be in the medical field, and yet another was this just fits me.  Medical terminology and grammar are two things that have always come easily to me.  So, this fits.  I can work early, early mornings and late nights when they are asleep.  Also during afternoon naps.  Yeah, doesn't leave a heck of a lot of time for myself, but THAT is a sacrifice I am willing to make, leaving my kids for someone else to raise/care for all day wasn't. 

My Day's at the Hospital......

1.  Two co-workers who only typed about 35-40 rad reports a day.

2.  One co-worker who took 6 cigarette breaks and did not smoke.

3.  Husband of one co-worker came in and perked over our shoulders for 30 minutes each day before sign out time.

4.  One co-worker who never called in to proper channels when not showing up.

5.  Somestimes above-mentioned co-worker just did not call, we are supposed to have ESP.

6.  One co-worker took 1.5 hour lunch breaks.

7.  One co-worker to me to slow my a-- down.

8.  One co-worker in the outpatient department would walk all the way over to in-patient to unassign her pools because she "didn't feel like typing ultrasounds" today.

9.  Can you say cherrypickers.....

10.  Boss couldn't type her name if her life depended on it.

11.  Co-workers never looked in reference books.  Called across room - How do you spell....(Mind you there are three of us in one room).....

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Good Stuff...

1.  I thank my mom all the time for making me take typing in high school.  I type 120 words a minute.

2.  I took lemons and make lemonades.  I read up on the subject of Voice Recognition and saw that I would be voiced out of a job (in 2003).

3.  I took a few bs jobs, and got several "bait and switch" deals.

4.  Would get up to 350 lph and get switched to an account with ESLs.  Can do them, but .......

5.  Enjoy flexibility of working at home.

6.  I say I have paid my dues, but do we ever.

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I love this board.  That's how it got my present job.  That's how I settled on my word Expander (after sampling three). 

I have purchased and sold items.  I have utilized advice regarding reference materials (yes, you do need them - make a sacrifice).  I have increased my QA from 98 to 99.1).  I don't skip over reports.  I work when I am asked.  In my spare time I add more and more acronyms to my dictionary and because of this, I have received an unsolicited raise. 

As for these transcription schools, it's just like "real" college.  You get out of it what you put into it.  They do not owe you anything. 

Like I said, I love this board, but sometimes we go overboard with the fluff, i.e., what's for dinner, how's your puppy...").  It took me 10 years to find the perfect fit and the flexibility because I have another career as an accountant.  These two occupations co-exist perfectly.  No two days are alike. 

Some of us are looking at transcription as an easy what out of corporate America, but it's not that easy.  You have to stay FOCUSED and you have to learn to use REFERENCE materials.  And don't say you cannot afford them.  Think of them as an investment in you job SECURITY. 

Good Day.  Luv y'all.  Got work on the Lanier.....

I helped my son out with his paper route the other morning because he was sick with a temp of 102.  I'm walkng around, almost done with the papers, heading home, birds are singing, sun is starting to shine and then, ALL OF A SUDDEN, VAROOOOOOOM!!!  About 4 cars go whizzing by, almost running me over, oblivious to their surroundings, obviously late for work again.  Checked my watch and it was 5:45 a.m.  6 o'clock shift running late again.  Can't get their Dunkin Donuts and make it to work on time unless they drive like a bat out of h...l.

I just laughed and laughed and thought, "Well geeeee, it stinks to be you doesn't it?  Now why don't you take time out to fill up with GASOLINE!"  HEE HEE!

I don't know why people are in such a hurry lately.  Why don't they just set their alarms 15 minutes earlier for Pete's sake?  I was taking my older son to work one morning and was at a red light at a very busy, accident prone, intersection.  The light turned green.  I always take a quick look left and right before going through the green light and I didn't even have time to glance to the left before the "A" behind me laid on his horn.  Of course then I got funny and drove like a granny, just to make him mad.  He ended up finding space to pass on the right and he gave me the finger.

Why don't one of you MQ whiners start a blog so the rest of us with the good sense NOT to stay with a crappy company don't have to see your "poor me" posts.  It is not that we read them, it is just a pain to have to navigate around them.  If you don't have the sense God gave a goose and leave a company that treats you so shabbily, then you deserve to be there.  Just don't subject the rest of us to your pity parties.  Someone start a blog, where you can all go and whine to each other, while your kids "starve".  Btw, if your kids were starving, it would be your faults for not getting a job that would buy your groceries and pay your bills.

We did used to have a wild time.  I absolutely love TQ now that it is no more.  I used to have so much fun and got paid to do it.  Man--I was making $ hand over fist--bought my house--paid cash for all my furnishings, etc.--worked my @*#% off but it was great!!

I hate Pampered Chef parties and all those that I get invited to where it is really about me paying for junk.

Who else hates these things?

company-covered bar tabs, having someone come and listen to your blanks, staff meetings, being able to look someone in the eye, your supervisor inviting everyone over to her house for brunch on Sunday. Having the choice whether to work in the office or work at home.

The downside? The typical problems working with a bunch of women. Then there was the fact that I was not a social butterfly and didn't like the endless requests for money to fund birthday, wedding, baby, sick, divorced, married parties, Tupperware, Chef this, Southern that yadda yadda yadda fests. The lunch you were so looking forward to no longer being the in fridge, but the wrapping is in the trash. A favorite reference book being found on someone else's desk at the other end of the hall. And she smokes. Ergo, your book now smells to high heaven because she sneaks her smokes in the office during her late night shift, and her nasty, smelly fingers have been all over it (only a nonsmoker will understand how awful this).  And she claims she doesn't know HOW the book got there when you ask.

Would I do it all again? In a heartbeat.

3 years and I think it actually helped my lower back.  Then I busted my wing (in a non-ball-related accident). That was over 4 years ago, though.  I am not looking forward to the breaking-in period all over again. Still, all it's going to cost me is a little lung power to blow the thing back up, so I believe I will give it another try.  Maybe it's just like riding a bicycle? 

And when you get bored, you can always bounce up and down on it.  Plus, your antics amuse your family and friends.