Now there's some great advice! Funny! nm

• What's your anger management strategy? - Hayseed
  • I go for a long walk or just exercise on my weight machine. That helps! nm - Carlie
  • Yeah, my strategy was to quit. - Hayseed
    • Good, you stood up for yourself and you - jana
    • Good for you, THEY lost. nm - MT50
    • Hayseed, I am so sorry to hear that. Last I read the board, sm - Carlie
    • I agree, THEY lost - Okie MT
    • They didn't win.... they LOST! (sm) - Flibertygibbit
    • You did the right thing! - Diane in NY
    • I have a little doll that my grandmother - Tootsie
    • Yeah, that's why I quit, too. - Marilyn
      • that's funny! - Lisa
        • Yes, they do. If you can pass their test, you can work for them - Marilyn
          • funny - Lisa
            • I've never made a negative comment about newbies. - Marilyn
              • Is being, not are being. - Marilyn
    • :( - MslaMT
    • Hayseed, I don't know you but your posts - Me
    • Good for you! - Sandi
  • Talk about anger management! SM - GM
  • Boy, I'm the worst... - RetroMom
  • Thank you so much for all of the advice! - Hayseed
    • I feel your pain, Hayseed. - ouch
    • I also - JanSetzmt
  • long walk, eat chocolate, gripe to husband :) - nm
  • This sounds lame, but I take my dog on a walk (he has been going on many walks lately). SM - MT50
    • you sound like me - dogwalker
  • Can you keep an axe in a log outside & go - whack it when you Really need to?!! :) nm NYmt
  • I had a little game I called "Ka-Ching"...(sm) - Anonymous, of Course!
    • anger management - Lisa
  • What works for me is I take a women's self defense class . . - PSMT
  • anger management - Lisa
  • Well, first of all I would *never* spend 20 - Me
  • ESL Anger - nana
    • Now there's some great advice! Funny! nm - RetroMom
    • excellent idea! - Lisa
    • Funny... can I join the Bon Voyage party with a few of my own? Seriously though - medtype
  • Why bother to get that upset? - winnie
    • That is very good advice - and less likely to get you in trouble! - Anonymous, of Course!
  • Why don't you try - JanSetzmt
    • Anger management - grasshopper
      • Anyone - Roaming Nome
        • happy hour - Lisa

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and by the way, I'm always amused by the "doctor's wife being the office manager" thing. What a joke. Obviously it's some insecure shrew who feels the need to keep an eye on her "investment" if you know what I mean. That's all too common, unfortunately. Same with nurses who end up "flinging" or "marrying" a doctor they met at work. "If they'll do it with ya, they'll do it to ya" in the words of Dr. Phil, and in my words, "you don't sh*t where you eat".

Wow!  Thank you all for the great advice, it really helps to get the support and advice and opinions.  I have decided now to go for it... .16 per gross line and hope that the chiro's will accept that offer.  If they don't agree, I guess I can then decide whether to keep the same arrangement or find something else.  It's time to venture out of my comfort zone. 

Thanks again, I am always so impressed by all the help here on this board!!   

for me, it works! Most docs pay $1 a page where I live - which is horrible to me! And the particular docs I transcribe for have "normals" set up where I might transcribe 2 or 3 paragraphs at best per report - everything is just pretyped as a normal, so I am more than happy with the $3. That's why I have the account and other's don't! Even if its 2 lines on the final page, that is a page. I tried to explain paying per line, and the doctors got glazed eyes.... I made a note myself of the brands of equipment others have recommended in lieu of Sony and Panasonic, but I must say that mine have lasted for over 2 years without a problem, and I got them used. I still wouldn't buy lots of equipment unless I had lots of $$ floating around! I have C-phones and foot pedals galore that I have bought and never used once....Well, again, good luck to you!

when it comes to dinner, treats or toys.  They have to be separated during dinner, separated to be given treats, and sorry to say, don't have much in the way of toys.  The rest of the time they can be practically right next to each other and nothing has ever happened.  Two of my dogs are greyhounds, so one little scratch can send us off to the vet's office, so I've learned to be very careful!

I have been an MT for over 10 years.  I also am getting burnt out, tired of my job, day in day.  However, I do love transcription and make excellent money at it, have grossed over $50,000 per year the last 5 years.  I decided to go back to nursing school and am very happy with my choice.  However, over these 10 years of transcription I have had my ups and downs.  My biggest issue with being at home working is lack of socialization, being home day in and day out with just the kids and the animals really gets to a person, sure hubby is home at night and thinks working from home is the easy life, thus the return to school and boy has my overall enjoyment of life changed once I realized I was the problem, not everyone else and I needed to find myself again.

Anyway, my biggest advice to you three-fold:

1.  Get into counseling for yourself, find out who you are and what your needs are, whether or not you think you need to, I sense you are feeling overwhelmed and need someone other than your family to talk to that can be nonjudgmental to your feelings and needs.

2.  If you're only making $100 after you pay preschool you can either keep doing it and be miserable, or quit because you are lucky enough to have a husband who can support the family without your income. (See how fast his mind changes just by losing the income you do have as to whether your job means anything.)  Or look for a different company or office that you like more and are more productive if you really want to do transcription (lots of fish in the sea as far as companies).

3.  Find a local "mom's" group where you can get out and socialize.  MOPS (mother's of preschoolers) is an excellent one that is nationwide, they have a website.  Also Mom2Mom is in a lot of areas.  They provide a once a week time for moms with kids the same age to get together, socialize, (some offer spirtual guidance some don't) and each week a different mom takes a turn watching everyone else's children at the facility that hosts it so the other moms can talk about things they have in common.  Every stay-at-home and work-from-home mom needs to socialize with adults, without their kids, or they will have a nervous breakdown eventually no matter how much they love their kids.

Sorry so long but it does get better but you have to take the first step at making yourself happy.

girlyman hater, I think you are trolling us here.

the country singer type I have no idea about, but a smart humble guy... science is a plus... bein' good lookin' can't hurt, but I dont want a sweaty singin' cowboy.

*just kidding, but this is how you sound.

Patient states, "I feel like s--t!"  I called my boss and said "I'm sorry, I cant type that in there." 

I used to work for an old cranky country doc that actually dictated the chief complaint as:  "Doc my b--ls are killing me."  I told him when I turned in the completed report that I had changed the chief complaint to:  Patient complains of testicular pain.  He just laughed and said, "That's why I hired ya!"

you confront an MT who is putting exactly 200 extra spaces at the end of each and every report and they are just DUMBFOUNDED that they are there. They have no clue as to how they could be getting there. So it stops. Then, before you know it, they are there again. Sorry, but they aren't magically putting themselves there. It's a macro, sweetums, and you're happy to be messing with "the man." Typically the same people will do it at the end of paragraphs, too, but of course with fewer spaces. Most of the time no one can see it, no one would think to look for it, but they're there.

The company I worked with called it "creating margin," aka the MT getting more money and happily shafting the facility that gets the transcription bill. Were the MTs told to not do that? Nope. They were not. Shame on the MT, and shame on the MTSOs who condone this behavior.