Me thinks you have burned one too many..
Posted By: Use a little common sense here. on 2005-11-03
In Reply to: Judgmental? - oh geez
I'm also in agreement with the movement to legalize marijuana, but come on--do you think this group shares your views? Save your passion for the petitions.
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30 yr and not burned out
I suppose it is different for everyone as to how to keep it somewhat fresh.
for me, maybe it is because I seldom 'kill' myself on the job (rather 'for' the job) anymore unless there is a dandy bonus. I have a comfortable pace, take frequent breaks and set reasonable line count goals.
When i'm done working, I make time for myself, relaxing, gardening, messing with my critters, etc.
I try to keep a good attitude about my work (venting when i'm irritated vs. getting ulcers) and am truly thankful for what God has provided, which helps reinforce the good attitude.
I have been an MT for 15 yrs and I am burned out too. Don't know how people say they
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But I crashed and burned.
All three MTSOs had the bulk of their work on the same day each week, so it didn't work out. I quit one and only do the small one on the weekends or evenings. I asked the "good" one for more hours so I didn't have to work three jobs.
It's one thing to think about how much money you "could" make if you were working XX hours at XX lines per hour. It's quite another thing to actually do it. I get slower the more I type and the later in the day it gets. It's better for me to get up early and crank out as many lines as I can by noon. Then if there's anything left, I can do it at a leisurely pace.
I am so burned out....someone revive me please!!!!
I have been doing this job for 14 years and my production has just bottomed out. I just can't seem to get anywhere. I have a great job working from home for a hospital who sent us all home eight years ago with health insurance, great dictators, large volume of work (270 bed hospital) at 11 cpl on a 60-character line. I also work for a brain and neurospine clinic at home and they pay me 13 cpl on a 65-character line. I could be making all kinds of money, but I just can't seem to get motivated anymore. I really don't want to change jobs, I just need some ideas on how to get yourself going again after being in a slump. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated before my husband kills me for not pulling my weight on the financial part. Thanks guys 
burned to a crisp
Anyone else finding it difficult to stay focused in long dictations? I can feel energetic when first logging on to work, but after a couple of long dictations, I'm burned out and ready to throw up. Wondering if I need to change careers after over 2 decades in this field. Didn't used to get burned out like this. Menopause kicking in, too, and it seems like my memory is going...
burned to a crisp
Thanks, you guys, for helping me feel like maybe I'm not losing my mind. :) Great ideas from both of you (vitamins, herbs, lots of water, splitting the day into halves or thirds). I know that I'm capable of doing so much better (if I only had a brain, like the song from Wizard of Oz!). I used to be super-productive and made excellent money. Nowadays, I can barely pay my bills. I second that emotion about naps during the daytime.
burned to a crisp
Wow. You DO sound happy! I'm happy for you. :) Do you need a degree to enter your career field?
I have been an MT for 15 years. I feel burned out, SM
and was wondering how others deal with it. I can't seem to get my momentum back.
You have my respect, I was that way for years, but got burned out! nm
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those burned oils stick to EVERYTHING.
I've thought about it, but am usually too burned out ..(s/m)
.. at the end of the day to want to do more transcribing. But that may be a good way to get my feet wet... maybe filling in as a part time IC for someone who is on sick leave or vacation, so it would only be temporary.
Thanks for your thoughts!
I'm majorly burned out. I have CTS, and I've
recently started on antidepressants. While I haven't actually changed companies I've been looking. I've interested and/or tested with multiple companies and every one has offered me a position, but none of them can offer me the flexibility that I need, the line rate I currently make, the easy platform I have, not to mention I have been with this company 5 years so I'm comfortable with my dictators. The thought of having to change all that I think would be too stressful, so I'm staying put. I don't really have any issues with my company, I just thought a change might help get me out of this slump. My line count keeps going down and I need it to go up.
Sorry I can't answer your question, but wanted to let you know you aren't alone. I agree with other poster, take some time off. It might not be the solution long-term, but it will give you some time to rest. Even if you just take a 1/2 day off (since you're an IC and you s/l you need the $$) it will help.
We all get burned out, don't feel alone. That is good (sm)
money. You can set your own hours, etc. But, taxes are a concern as well. I went to work for our local nursing home and found it more rewarding emotionally. Actually was left money by a lady I use to stay and play cards with. So just remember to be true to yourself and there are people who do good things when you least expect it. So your efficiency obvious has not gone ignored, but take the break if you feel you need it and go back when your ready. That's the great thing about being an IC!!
Try "jaded and burned" and it's more accurate
Sure, there are bad MTSOs, but I get sick of people blaming all the MTSOs for all the problems. Flaky transcriptionists are nothing new; it seems they just "get around" more now that we have Internet based transcription.
Once bitten, twice shy. Twice burned, thrice learned. :) nm
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Update on another one burned by Four Seasons Transcription
Okay shocking news here. I just received part of the pay Robin owes me. Why, not sure. Supposedly she''s in the hospital, but I also was told she's famous for "being in the hospital for surgery" as an excuse for nonpayment. I'm still not sure what made her go ahead and pay part of what she owes me... I just hope my other invoices get paid as she bills the acct for them. Now if she seriously was in the hospital she has my sympathy BUT according to other MT's she's burned... this is a signature Robin move... minus the actually getting paid... I honestly don't know what to say.
BioSpot not safe, burned the hair off the back of my cat.
please see link. Cheaper when using pesticides on your animal companions is definitely not the way to go, and use all other topicals very sparingly.
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Yet another one burned by Robin Hall/Four Seasons Transcription
Robin managed to find me via Guru.com. I wish I had read the earlier warnings about her on here back then. I kept on working believing she way pay, falling for her excuses. She's very good at what she does. My paycheck was 5 weeks late when I finally said enough and told her I could no longer work for her on 02/01/08. Since that time I haven't been able to contact her through home phone, cell phone, e-mail, yahoo messenger or anything. I even tried calling her business number listed on her website for Four Seasons... guess what... that number has been disconnected with no forwarding number. She got me for over $800. The part I feel the worst about is I referred a friend to her shortly after starting with her myself. Robin now owes that friend over $900 and has still not paid her to this day. I know there's nothing I can do (still investingating legal action though) about what she did to me. I mainly want to warn other MT's about her. Please... before any of you accept a job at ANY company IC or employee.... check them out in any way possible.
Becka
Unfortuantely this lady has pretty much burned her bridges with everyone years ago. sm
No one...and I mean no one will set foot in that house to relieve my in laws. It is a very sad situation.
You're right, i spend way too much time on this board when should be working, I am just so burned
NM
Wow someone who thinks outside the box
call the media!
Too many are too willing to give up the tiny bit of privacy remaining...
The doc who thinks
every new sentence is a new paragraph and/or the one who says 'period, new line' after every sentence. Is this a really pervasive dictating annoyance? Or is it just me?
As one who does QA and thinks
the quality of US MTs is POOR, POOR, how do you find the offshoring MTs work to be? I mean this seriously.
I read on and India site that it only took weeks to be a MT.
Sometimes when I am working I think there is no way an Indian MT can do this.
So, how do they measure up? What is our competition really like?
Am I the only one who thinks this odd?
Job post stating they are looking for really good QAs and would be willing to hire newbies for this position............ 
Frankly, I don't think I would care for a newbie, who basically is still learning themselves, to be put in charge of QA of my work, especially if THEY have it all wrong, due to lack of experience, and that counts against me!
No. Someone who thinks they are "cute" is having fun
trying to derail the thread and irritate others.
COokies are done! Pouring the milk!!
Goodnight, the real Laurie and the real Michelle! I've had fun!!!
Curdled milk and burnt cookies to the silly ones trying to upset everyone! LOL
Mig was too pretty for them. Am I the only one who thinks (sm)
that Marty looks like a drug addict? 
Anyway, I think they made a good choice.
she thinks it is "cute"
Ever know one of those women who thinks it is cute to curse? I feel like she probably has not always been this way. She seems to try to use them for dramatic effect. She only knows 5 of them but every time she says a curse word she says it louder than the rest of her sentence. It is about as cute as Grandma cursing. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Thanks for the advice.
Just wondering what everyone thinks about this...
I work in the office. We are being taken over by a larger hospital. The larger facility is putting their people in the management positions, which is fine. At our smaller hospital, we have not had the opportunity to work from home, but with the merger, the plan is to send us all home to work by the end of the year and I think that is fabulous! What concerns me is this, they watch their at-home people like hawks. They actually print out a daily report on each Transcriptionist (40+) that lists every single job they did that day and how long they spent in each report typing. So, say you have a 5 minute H&P and you took 30 minutes to type it, they basically call you up and want to know why it took you so long to type this report. Their reasoning is they pay us hourly and they don't want to pay us for sitting at home watching television. I completely understand that, but I am a very productive MT and really don't like the idea of having to account for every minute of my day if I am producing at least the minimum. Having said that, they also offer a very nice incentive plan where we get a per line rate for anything above the minimum. So why the need to micromanage like they do?
In my opinion, if your people are producing at least the minimum and if you have a very competitive incentive plan in place, then why not just check productivity on everyone at the end of each pay period and counsel anyone not producing at least the minimum and if necessary, take disciplinary action and just leave it at that? Why check every single report to make sure we aren't taking too long on one report and risk upsetting your productive MTs who maybe got distracted by a phone call or something on that one report, but still produced what they were supposed to produce when the day was done?
I've been looking around at other jobs just to see what is out there and have lined up some very promising prosects, but none that offer an incentive plan comparable to the one at my current job. I just wonder is the incentive money worth the added stress of having someone virtually looking over my shoulder all day long? They are definitely sending the message that we are going to be asked to justify every bathroom break, every sinle distraction throughout our day, no matter if we get the job done or we don't.
Just wondered what insight other MTs might have on this issue.
Just wondering what everyone thinks
Like you said, you are a "very productive MT." I wouldn't worry about it. The ones who should worry are the ones who screw off. This will be a new venture for the hospital and they will watch very carefully for a while to see how it goes. As long as you are meeting the requirements I wouldn't be concerned. Give it a try and see what happens.
Thanks, misha! My DH thinks that
it would help clear up DS's skin if he sat in the sun some every day, or even used a tanning bed as someone below said, although I'd be worried for him to do that because he has light skin, light blue eyes and blond hair - it was so light it was that white-blond when he was a baby/toddler. So obviously he has very fair skin and features so I worry about the risk of skin cancer.
But your link sounds like something different and I will check that out. Thanks for taking the time to research for me!
Finally someone who thinks like I do! sm
I never understood how Bucky even got in the top 12! What drove me nuts the most was was his inability to speak clearly! I really laughed when Ryan said "I have no idea what you just said" and when Kenny Rogers said he needed to enunciate or the song wasn't going to make any sense.
Bucky just really had a skeevy look to me...like I wouldn't leave a child alone with him.
Me thinks you are way off base.
You may want to find a new career. When you refer to drop in for an hour or two, you are speaking about ICs who in no way are any less professional than you are working from your home as an employee. Some MTs work from a typing pool meaning they can take a job at a time and make money in that fashion as a contribution to the household (paying bills I might add). Many professions offer at home employment. We are not the only ones. I think you have a bad attitude and should probably find somewhere else to drone in your sorrows. Many of us here are professionals even at home with a husband and children. It kind of sounds like you are jealous about husbands that make money and have insurance. You may want to re-think what you are saying in regards to MTs working from home and not being considered a professional. In my experience, my friends and relatives are envious of my being able to make a living from my home office, so I'm not sure who you have that talks about you to where you cannot defend yourself, but that is usually a psyhiatric entity called paranoia. Sorry to say, but you make as much as you'd like as long as you can "hang with the big dogs". If you are not making enough money, then that is for you to either take some courses in typing and anatomy or just go with the flow. To blame at home MTs is way off base.
not everyone thinks nationals are awful.
i have worked for 4. two were terrible, one was okay, one great.
the one that was okay and the one that was great made you put up a deposit on the computer stuff and if you didn't get it back to them in good shape they kept it. i think that is fair. costs a lot of money to do that.
all 4 of the companies i worked for checked references. i had to test on terms, meds, and then do a transcription test for 3 of the companies.
the 2 that were terrible - i just did not like their software (1 sent me a computer that wouldn't work so they sent another one and it wasn't very fast at all). it wasn't really anything they did. i just didn't care for how their stuff ran.
i think all of them are decent companies. beats the hospitals i've worked for. beats getting in the car for a drive everyday in pantyhose and heels and listening to coworkers gripe about what they're not getting and having to work when they want you to.
she thinks she is "the mama"
riiiiiggghhht.
Me thinks 5th graders would think it's really dumb. nm
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I have been doing this for 12 years and still to-this-day my sister thinks she can just come over
to my house any time and visit while I am working !!!!! . I know they think, Well, she is just typing, she can do that any time. Taken for granit is right and I have tried and tried to re-educate people on this but get nowhere. I just end up being the bad guy for not offering to baby sit or something. Well, you will be there, can they just say with you. I think I should have sent my 6- month -old to my sister's house one night (when he was 6 months-old) after crying all night with colic, and said well, you will be here, can he just stay with you.. You can't sleep when a six month old is a different house especially if he is sick and you can't work either!! DUH!
Just annoyed that he so smugly thinks I will be - sm
unemployed in the near future! You see, I have been happily married for 8 years and despite great effort on his part, he has not been able to cause many problems. My daughter has next to nothing to do with him because of the way he treats her. He really just wants to see us unhappy and in a bad situation.
Who thinks Mick Jagger is still hot??
she should look at apply for section 8. I thinks its through the
housing development of the city she resides.
my family thinks the same thing...
I even had a friend call me the other day (who I thought understood what it is I do all day) asking if I could get his significant other a job because he does medical billing and can type fast...LOL...I guess no one will understand the working at home aspect except those who actually work at home....
Consulting dr. doesnt say but says he thinks
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Thank you AllieCat. I'm at home IC. Me thinks
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me thinks we have all been working alone too long
We gotta get out more. Poor Kiki.
My family probably thinks elves clean up after them - sm
As I try to do all the picking up, etc. after everyone is in bed. Granted I can't vacuum then but most of the junk is picked up and put away, including the laundry. My husband wants to hire someone, I really don't want a stranger in my house though. Also my husband fails to understand that they will not pick up his dirty clothes, or put his stuff away where it belongs, etc., and that you actually have to straighten up a bit before someone comes in to clean for you. What he wants is a maid who will do what I won't!....maybe after we win the Mega Millions, right?
Me thinks so too. Snowman poop is for babies. :)
My hubby thinks he's another Rock Hudson - NM
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U to be right but me thinks thou doth protest
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postively sick that some self-righteous MT thinks no one should make $$
but her but the only talent she has is to tear up everyone else on an MT board. Probably hates the doctors she works for because they make more money than her w/o a clue that they are educated and she isn't.
i'm not angry at all. i am amused at the attitude of some know-it-all poster who thinks they kno
and posts an essay on it and Oh If Only They Would Listen I Have All The Answers essay. Too funny. Actually hilarious!
I suggest if you are looking for perks where you work and poster thinks
you should get free stuff from where you work, you might want to forget working at the bowling alley and take a job at a car dealership. Set your sights higher than free bowling. LOL.
You're really looking pathetic here. Notice how everyone thinks so? Move on. nm
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