Must not be too good then. I'm kicking butt and taking names

• Editor Pay?? - fordfrog97
  • Medical experience - fordfrog97
  • Sounds about right - QA Specialist
    • With 2 years experience! - long time MT/editor
      • I wondered the same thing. A lot of companies require CMT for editing and - the test isn't even offered until 2 years
        • MT "editors" - hmk
          • I think that depends on what your duties are sm - Speedy
          • Rude isn't the word for a comment like that. sm - mlstoo
            • Thank you! sm - Dano
          • How rude! - Dano
          • Must not be too good then. I'm kicking butt and taking names - editing

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that are easy to use and access.  Have a doctor's office that will be sending me digital voice files in the next couple of weeks and need to switch them over easily to a new "system".  I prefer FTP though since I only have dial-up and I am used to using it with another job. Any preferences out there? Thanks.

I see a lot of posts complaining about hospitals with many specialties and many different dictators and not wanting to do ESLs etc.  I have got to voice my opinion about this.

While most folks don't like to do ESLs/bad dictators (myself included) it is a PART of the job!  If you have many different departments/specialties/ESLs you are probably doing a teaching hospital.  If you are doing a large teaching hospital usually that is the "bread and butter" of the company that you work for.  Being in this business for so many years, I hear MTs, new and long time MTs, complain about their accounts.  When I get complaints about large teaching hospitals, if possible I take that person off that account, BUT I also warn them that while I can NEVER guarantee the workload it makes it harder when folks don't want to do certain accounts or certain dictators.  It is a part of the job.  Most of the ti these same people are the ones who are screaming first if the work is slow.

After almost 30 years, there are dictators I despise just like anybody else, but I take the good with the bad.  My opinon is that any MT should make it their plan to learn how to do every type of MT, not just certain kinds of reports or dictators.  It saddens me when I hear folks who do not know how to do operative reports or some other kind of dictation and don't want to learn.  You will never be a successful MT or feel completely comfortable if you are not willing to learn everything you can.  Besides if you are willing to learn everything and can do any type of transcription you make yourself a more valuable MT!  To do that it takes years of experience.

MT is a continuous learning experience.  No one EVER knows EVERYTHING  about this profession as medicine changes at an unbelievable rate.  MTs should be continuously learning.  In my opinion, a good MT always wants to be learning.

This is my opinion and I hope I didn't get anyone ticked off.

younger child away from HER father and there is much less chance of finding a third man who is going to love and raise both children the way they should be raised.

I think it's best to try to work through it, maybe try some counseling and try to make DH realize that he has to fill the role of "dad" for both children.  If he is basically a good man, then this is not the end of the world. 

Also, OP states she's not making much money.  She would be putting both her children in a situation of financial disaster, plus no father for them.  Bad idea.

I wonder if that would be of the same benefit...just off for a few months because of money reasons!  any health food store carries it, but, of course, you want a good one. 

also, evening oil of primrose is great, still taking that because there was a sale on it...love it.

had most of the credit cards paid off, just a couple of thousand left.  Then I went to creditboards.com and read there and saw how people got credit cards and actually improved their credit because they had higher available credit limits, etc.  So I applied for a bunch of cards and got them.  And I got a loan for a new car.  And we took out a home equity loan.  And charged up the new cards.  And in the meantime, my self employment income took a nosedive.  What an idiot.  All that hard work of getting those CCs paid off and now we're in deeper than we were.  I was stupid.

So starting again.  I'm going to pay off the cards and NOT get any more.  I'm really mad at myself over this.

This is what I would say in a very sympathetic and concerned voice,

"I need to talk to you.  I can hear you a great deal of the time, and I feel very uncomfortable about it.  I am probably hearing more than you want me to.  I am sure you would feel uncomfortable having me hear your private conversations, so I just wanted to let you know that I can hear you." 

stating her opinion. Take it or leave it. You are the one slamming, not her.

You don't have to start bashing someone because they gave an opinion...and FYI, I wouldn't work for someone that has to wait until they get paid either. Two months is a long time to wait....and I'm talking from experience, too.