No, December's NOT ideal...
Posted By: Kate on 2006-01-20
In Reply to: Just don't go in the summer. The guides say that the first week in December is ideal. nm - Lil me
Anyone who's from Florida or has been there knows the rates for EVERYTHING go shooting through the sky come the season, which is the week before Thanksgiving through week after Easter.
Granted, the weather's beautiful in December, but you WILL pay for it if you go to Disney, make no mistake..... ![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/smile.gif)
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Just don't go in the summer. The guides say that the first week in December is ideal. nm
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My ideal MT job.
1. CONSISTENT workload so I'm not sitting here on-call for free one day waiting for work, then working a double shift the next day to get it all done on time.
2. CONSISTENT QA and feedback that doesn't change from person to person or week to week.
3. Ability to specialize and use my Expander or normals so I can crank out the lines. (Really, why wouldn't MTSOs want people assigned to certain accounts? Then we'd all be making $30 an hour instead of fighting three accounts all with 500 dictators and hundreds of specialties and ESLs. TAT wouldn't be an issue if we all could focus on one area and do it well. Yeah, yeah, I understand about staffing issues and needing well rounded MTs, but this is my fantasy.)
4. Excellent platform so I'm not wasting time looking up patient or physician info, swapping from screen to screen, or whatever.
The rest of that stuff is a given. I won't work for a company that cheats me or pays late.
My ideal job
Working for the county coroner's office transcribing autopsy reports with full county benefits.
I'm a total ghoul, huh? :-(
December 15?
I always thought it was when the final quarterly payment ws due, January 15, is that wrong?
If you do go in December...
The best days to go are December 18 to December 23rd. We went to Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure on December 21 this year because they gave us discount passes for that week. There were no crowds at all. We walked on all the rides. I think our longest wait was 20 minutes for Spiderman. The lines were so short that we were able to go on all the rides at both parks, several of them 2 to 3 times each, and we were pretty much done by 3:00. I asked one of the workers there, and she said that week was the slowest of the year, but that December 24 to Jan 1 is usually very crowded.
If you decide to go, my kids and I actually prefer Universal/Islands of Adventure over the Disney parks. We like the rides better, and it is a lot cheaper. I also like the fact that you can bring one of those big sipper cups in those parks, they will let you refill it for $1.25. They also let you bring food in the park. I usually bring PB&J sandwiches and our sipper cups, and then we only purchase dinner in the park.
searching for the ideal..
I am soooo very anxious right now. I have cried all morning and cannot seem to console myself or come up with a solution. I have been doing transcription for over 12 years and have been home for the last four. Through those four years, though I love being at home, I have come up with generally zip as far as contentment in my job goes. I have been an employee status, as well as an independent contractor. I have worked for places that seemed 'ideal' until 3 months or so were up, then they'd switch accounts on me (starting out on great accounts and leaving me struggling with a bunch of crud nobody in their right minds would want to do), dealing with owners or supervisors who lay out the 'heavy hand' and do nothing but tell you what you DO WRONG (one who comes to mind nearly gave me a nervous collapse--never could please her and who'd want to the way she treated you, sarcastic, mightier than thou approach).. ugh! I have done basic four hospital transcription, clinic transcription, ER transcription, and I just am not finding 'THE BEST' place to be. I don't know.. maybe I'm SUPER BURNED OUT. I never make enough money, don't have benefits, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I'm just finished with this 'career.' If I find a place where I make a decent amount of cash, I either have to put up with an idiot for a manager/ boss/ supervisor/owner or hideous dictation. If I go to a place that seems good as far as dictation/accounts go, and the management is decent, I wind up making next to nothing in pay. Most places I've experienced give you a come-on to begin with, give you a decent account and after two to three months, they switch you to the crap work. Still, they give you no pay raises for even attempting to do these reports, not like they would anyway. I think I have worked for at least six different companies since being at home in the last four years. I am sick of making no money, not enjoying my job anymore and dealing with all the crap nobody else wants to do. Sorry, I had to vent.. I'm ready to give up and find a job that actually PAYS in more ways than one. ![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/sad.gif)
Right! It's not ideal pay but we have to make a
JMHO
Glad that you have ideal ...sm
conditions under which to work, always plenty of work, no downtime, great accounts that one can just breeze through, you don't have to spend time doing demographic/detective work that is unpaid for, great accounts, great dictators, can get all your lines in during your shift so you don't have to work off hours. But the rest of us, and that seems to be the overwhelming majority, going by what's been posted on this board, they can't all be wrong and they deserve equal time and deserve to express themselves equally, whether negatively or positively, the same as you do. They can't all be wrong you're so-o-o right.
We married in December and get this
my husband is sooooo crazy he wants to visit in the summer. One summer trying to walk about 1/2 block my feet already turning red. It was, oh, about 110 outside. It does not bother him but whew, the sweat is pouring off my brow. Neither of us gamble but I love all that glitter and stuff and he loves the buffets so works out well for us. We got married at Treasure Island, beautiful place. Funny, but we never stayed there again. He said we could have remarry again there - told him he would do anything to get back to the buffets!
I took the test in December
I liked using the CMT Review Guide and the CD that comes with it. It's very similar to the real test.
Good luck!!!!
Sounds like you have the ideal situation.
Camry
I would love to be able to find a hospital job from home one day. Do you have to have broadband, or can you use dial up? Just curious. I am still stuck out in the boonies with dial up.
Lynn
What would be ideal is a combination of the ErgoMagic
keyboard that can be angled PLUS that touch pad. hmmmmm
I'll definitely post if I find one that works for me.
The ideal typing position...
is demonstrated at this website:
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ahtutorials/typingposture.html
Ugh, we bought a new Dell in December. First off...
the thing sounds like a meat grinder the entire time it is on. Makes so much noise I think I'm on the tarmac at the airport. Secondly, we installed a new video card and then somehow disabled it and needed tech support to sort it out. Yep, got "Jimmie" from Calcutta or Bombay or some other such place (who do they think they're kidding?), who walked us through a process which we thought was going to reset the video card, and he had us RETURN TO FACTORY SETTINGS! Just as I hit the last button, I realized what he had me doing. I lost all kinds of documents, taxes, you name it. I was livid! Not happy.
I've had 4 jobs since December...sm
Seems like they will tell you one thing and then deliver another. They don't even let you get adjusted before they start sending you the worst of the worst.
It's been very difficult to do this, but I am determined to find a mutually beneficial relationship.
That is why I'm going to venture out on my own. At least, maybe, I can have some sort of control over my own career.
I am learning a lot of different systems, which is fascinating, to say the least. It's been really an enriching experience for me.
I sure hate that testing, though! :)
It's been out of publication since December 2007...
"The Latest Word: The Bimonthly Newsletter for Medical Transcriptionists ceased publication with the December 2007 issue."
http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/ynfmt
Amazing he'll be gone 25 years in December...
seems like it was just yesterday! So, so senseless. Hard to believe Sean's 30 already. Man, this makes me feel my age!!
What's your favorite song he wrote? Mine's "Imagine." Absolutely love it...always have, always will ![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/smile.gif)
You also can't enjoy the water parks in December. nm
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What would be your ideal romatic getaway? Annivery coming up
22 years next month. Thanks for your thoughts. Janice
I bought a desktop and laptop in December. Can I claim on taxes..
and is there a limit to how often you purchase computers for your work? A friend thought you could buy one a year and claim it. I bought the laptop and desktop in December and already hate the laptop, but I hate to purchase another one if I cannot claim it this year. Oh, also if I charged the computers on my Dell account in December but did not start making payments in January 2006 can I still claim for 2005 taxes. Thanks.
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