I know if my nails are too long it slows me

• Does anyone have tips for typing faster? - Thanks!
  • I know if my nails are too long it slows me - down. booboo
  • Turn up the speed of the dictation a tad. - me
    • Good idea! - Thanks!
  • No, I mean physically type faster with my hands. - Sorry.
    • Friend suggested I type while listening to the news. - newbi
    • I tilt the keyboard away from me, like it's partly facing - the SCREEN, and rest wrists on a soft support.
    • I learned this many years ago: I type in phrases ,even when I'm not expanding but SM - Becky
    • My suggestions - Busy MT'ing
  • No distractions. Stay in your chair. A timer. - nm

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I just got nails put on last week and am having a difficult time getting used to them.  If you have long nails, do you type with the tips of your nails or your fingertips?  My nails are not very long at all, but it seems like they are hitting the wrong keys and I'm constantly having to back up and fix mistakes plus my wrist is starting to hurt.

Any ideas besides removing them?  I'd like to give it a little more time to see if I can adjust.

Thanks.

Those wireless keyboards are a pain to me. Never had good luck with them. Was always putting in new batteries and even then they were stubborn and didn't work.  My wireless keyboard in the keyboard graveyard now.

I like non-ego keyboards that plug in and have a fast, silent touch and use a rubber wrist rest. No egos for me. Feel retarded with my hands all spread eagle using them. Each to his own. I know they are popular. Supposed to be good for wrists.

I buy the real cheapo keyboards at Walmart, Logitech for $10 or so and they are the best for me anyway. The more they cost, the worse they work in my experience.

Love NOT getting paid while sitting doing my nails too.  It's a real turn on.

I tell all my friends to try it -- sit in front of your computer while you have no money to pay your rent and instead do your nails, you get a real buzz down in the pit of your stomach.

I used to make $70,000 and up a year and did so for most of the late 80s and 90s (one girl used to make six figures a year working 7 days a week!)  Because we were making more money than the supervisors and Medical Records Directors in hospitals, they began to switch to transcription services which were sprouting up all over the place.  Plus AAMT came into existence and even though in the beginning it claimed it was to fight for transcriptionists (although assured us it was NOT a union), they eventually morphed into an organization that was more management friendly.  They developed the "guidelines" and the 65-char line.  That was the beginning of the end for those high-end wages.  Then all those mickey mouse transcription schools popped up, and now outsourcing overseas.  YES, we're complaining. 

I'm very sorry that your lines are 90 characters line and you get paid by gross lines.  You are cheating yourself - that's not my fault.  You cannot change the definition of a gross line.  So I gues I'm not understanding what you are trying to say.  Now if you are trying to say that your line equals 90 characters and that's how you figure your lines, than you are not using gross lines.  You have defined a line to be 90 characters, whereas most MTSOs define a line as 65 characters.  If that is the case, then I must say again, you are cheating yourself.

So which is it, do you get paid by gross lines or by a 90 character line?

appropriate anymore. I was taught "when in doubt, leave it out," especially if the comma is meant to add emphasis.

I have seen too many instances where too many commas have ruined a document.

I'll start:  Almost 27 years doing acute care reports, but I have about a year of experience doing radiology (hospital).

Care to share?

I have been official MT for 13 years, unofficially for about 7 years before that.