No, December's NOT ideal...

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..... 

• Florida Disney - Nyer
  • You can go to....sm - Georgia gal
  • we went last May, cost us a fortune! - sm
  • My tips - Mtinflorida
    • Super Bowel Weekend? LOL - nm
  • It depends on how long you stay, - Just me
  • $3,000 for us. (sm) - recent Disneyer
  • Disney - EXMQMT
  • Just don't go in the summer. The guides say that the first week in December is ideal. nm - Lil me
    • No, December's NOT ideal... - Kate
      • You also can't enjoy the water parks in December. nm - D
        • If you do go in December... - D
          • We were just there the 16-21 -- Universal was great - sm - Laura E.
    • end of January great, too - definitely not in summer
      • The facts.... - Kate

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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.

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. 

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. 

I liked using the CMT Review Guide and the CD that comes with it.  It's very similar to the real test. 

Good luck!!!!

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