NOT necessarily does post belong on GAB BD

The Main Board and the Gab Board are definitely for discussion of a movie and/or healthcare.....The GAB board is not for any subject (so they have said here at MTStars) relating to MT work......or politics and religion.....Think the Main Board is also not for politics and religion posts also.....

But Administration could clarify this for us here..........and have in the past numerous times.

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Gross lines are not a good way to go if everything is typed in - say - Times New Roman 12, and the client wants the left and right margins set at - say - one inch each.  You would have a LOT of characters per line, so if that is the case, you might come out ahead and better by charging for a 50 or 55 character line instead of a gross line.  What do you think?

I would take an MT with 20 plus years of hard and fast experience over a paper tested MT any day.

If the docs spoke clearly and in orderly fashion, it would still require an extensive knowledge of medical language, procedures, and of course grammar, to do this job.  It would just make that knowledge more important.

P.S.  I would suggest kindergarten, not high school, for most of them.

It sounds like they expect you to sit around all day and wait for a job or dare I say TWO to come in.  I think they wanted you at the beck and call.  Not funny and isn't like you work solely for the joy.

I have not had a contract terminated for getting another job.  I have had a company insist that I put them first, which for a full time, I think goes without saying.  Moonlighting is moonlighting.  I did have someone refuse to offer me a contract part time because of the people I was working for full time, saying they were a direct competitor.  The full time has about 400 MTs and this small company who refused me had about 35 MTs.  I don't think they were in serious competition, but I suppose that is their call.

I think you are better off without them, but you didn't deserve to be treated that way.  They sound unprofessional and inconsiderate.  I wish you better luck with your new company.  Change can be good...sometimes VERY good.

I do use IT as my Expander - love it.  I'm not one who briefs everything, but it save me a ton of time and worth every penny 10 fold.  Another must have is the Stedman's spellchecker dictionary. 

I wish I had the secret to staying focused.  Like many, I lollygag, waste time on the internet surfing, get distracted by household obligations, etc.  Honestly, if I would do a straight 8 hours of working, I'd probably make 20-30k more a year.  I tend to work a chunk in the morning to mid afternoon and then a few hours at night. 

The main thing is to find a company that gives you the opportunity to make money.  Find a couple specialties you like and are good at.  Find work in those areas.  Best if you can find work where you don't have more than a moderate handful of doctors where you can really build speed.  If a company isn't paying you for every keystroke you type - get out.  

Go beyond what everybody else does to look for opportunities.  As it's been said before, the best companies don't advertise.  There are a lot of people happy with several companies that do advertise on these boards, but I believe that the smaller companies are the best.  

Track your lines.  You should be able to type 250-300 lines an hour without too much problem if you are working in a productive environment.  If you can only do 150 lines in an hour, then stop and say what is slowing me down.  Is it constantly looking up words?  It is the platform?  Is it extra things you do other than typing that your company requires?  If the problem is something you can't alter, i.e. company requirements or platform, start seeking other work. 

when I feel upset, overwhelmed, or down about my situation, I try to think of how worse others may have it.  For instance, maybe your husband is facing 6 weeks of recovery from surgery... but somewhere out there somebody's husband has been delivered a grim prognosis and would give anything for a 6 week "recovery." 

You say you're an orphan... But looking on the positive side you do have a husband and children (however trying they may be at times), and someday they will have spouses and children and your family will be ever larger.  That's a good thing. 

Again, not to diminish your problems in any way, just trying to share how I sometimes help myself through tough times, by reminding myself that things can actually be much much worse.