One question, if you are so tired of me, why do you keep responding? SM

There needs to be uniformity across the board in this profession and there isn't.  There isn't uniformity when it comes to format, there isn't uniformity when it comes to QA, and there isn't uniformity when it comes to lines.  I used your post about typing 3500 lines to illustrate that fact.

When someone asks a question, they should get all the facts.  That's what I'm doing giving them all of the facts.  If in doing that, I made you feel like a lesser MT, that's just something I'll have to live with.

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horrible dictation/dictators and not able to produce lines, which directly affects my paycheck.  I don't mind doing the difficult stuff, and I pretty good at it, but it is stressful and I find it very hard to budget when you never know what your paycheck is going to be.   I hate being tied to having earphones on all day.   I have children at home (I homeschool and don't have toddlers running around) and my DH works third shift so he is home during the day.  I try to work around all this, but can't always.  If I had a "desk" job I could be part of conversations at least, but having to have the earphones on you can't do that.   I get tired of being sedentary, my feet swell, my shoulders are tired, my elbows hurt, etc.  

I stick with it because of my children, and also because I like the flexibility.  I don't have to be up at 5:30 to get the kids up and ready for school, I don't have to fight traffic to get to work at 8:00.  It is a trade-off.   Sounds like you just need a break.  

Now I'll explain why I asked:   you said 13 to 15 cpl, so let's go for 14 cpl.

Take somebody overseas. They get, say, 3 cpl. The work needs editing, so they hire someone in this country to edit. What's the going rate for that? Maybe 4 cpl? So, between the two that's 7 cpl for the completed report.

If the person who is an Editor is "top drawer" (old expression for top of the line), the finished product will be of the same quality that you provided, transcribing the report by yourself.

So, if the quality of the report will ultimately be the same, and you were a hospital (or doctor), which would you spend:  14 cpl or 7 cpl?

From a hospital standpoint, with exorbitant costs, that's smart business. They can now use the savings for other things.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but that's what's going on.

I thought I was the only one...now I know it is just not me who has had this problem.

Hello and thank you.  I have figured out that the F10 opens the shorthand menu but I am trying to figure out what the key would be to get to add a new word and okay it without using a mouse.  I am so used to adding my autocorrect entries easily, alt the a (type word) tab over and enter.  It is so quick to do that probably 3 seconds to create a word.  I am trying to figure out how to not fumble with the mouse to actually create a new entry into shorthand.  Any tips are greatly appreciated.  THANKS

Add new entry to dictionary

it's probably (I'm not there) a harmless garter snake or something....not a boa and not a cobra (reddish/orange/black as I remember from my NC days), and not a rattler I do not think.

Yes - snake is a snake is a snake - but I've know that they are sacred in certain cultures, and we are a multicultural country and so we shouldn't disrespect animals....especially when there are organizations to be called in to help.

Glad he/she is in hiding....if you're still scared, I'd call someone or ask a neighbor (not a scared neighbor) to help. 

Neat little story to share:  Last evening, I helped 2 people try to capture these 2 lttle parrots who had their wings clipped (apparently by someone who wanted to keep them) and who have been flying around my area for weeks to possibly months.  I got a cat carrier and some sheets, and the 2 others, over some time, and with the sheets, got them into the cat carrier...

Now one of them wants to keep them and went and bought a huge cage/food/toys,etc.

It was a nice evening helping capture these 2 birds who really couldn't fly due to their wings were clipped, and only flew low (cars/traffic worry here). 

I have probably posted 4 times in the last 4 years here, but love gleaning information from all of the posts.  ShortHand vs. Instant Text seemed to be a hot topic when I created these posts and I  thought this info would benefit a lot of MTs.

With close to 200 views, I don't understand the lack of responses. 

Again, I really appreciate yours.

Actually I do believe you because unlike some of the other posts that I've seen your words have the ring of truth.  You've presented three elements that I believe that the high income achievers that work for services have that are inherent to their success:

1.  An account that is a good fit;

2.  Hard work; and

3.  Dumb luck. 

Some of the posters try to come off as if they're just so wonderful and have such a strong work ethic, and that makes them differerent from the rest of the pack.  You're presenting a realistic perspective that actually makes sense.

.. There was a surgical group whose director's wife started a service and charged her husband and his partners 18 CPL.

They now offshore to India, however.

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I was responding to "whatever", not
to MQLover. If you read what "whatever" wrote, it is pretty screwed up. I haven't heard that since junior high school!

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I'm sure his delay in responding is because he's
I hope he's not a MOLE....... DUM DA DUMMMMMM!

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might be responding via a Blackberry, that's why...
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Thanks Babe for responding....sm

Thanks for responding so quickly :)  I don't know much about sole proprietorships except to say I file a schedule C for the private MDs and I do a regular 1040A for the national I work for.  Speak to your CPA - you do live in NC and that's part of the SE region of the USA and maybe the laws coincide (are much the same).  I don't know and I wish I could give you more info.  Like I said, I take my 1099s and file a schedule C on my taxes at the same time I do a 1040A for the W2-W4 I receive from the national.  It all works out and the IRS has never come after me.  I'm very legal. 

Be well hon and thanks again for the quick response.

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Hi! Sorry I'm so late in responding SM

I have tons of entries (like 45,000+), but I never really learned how to do commands on it.  I did learn this from someone though: 

yow = {@KEY BkSp}-year-old woman

...it will go back one space and attach to the number.  So,I type 20 yow and it expands out to 20-year-old woman....I have yoaaf, yoaam, yowf, yog, yob, yogent, yomn, etc.  For instance:

yomn = {@KEY BkSp}-year-old man

the key is to use the {@KEY BkSp} before each expansion.

Hopefully this is what you were needing help with! 

Here is a list (I hope this works!)

KEYWORD: yohf
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old Hispanic female

KEYWORD: yohm
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old Hispanic male

KEYWORD: yol
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old lady

KEYWORD: yolb
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old little boy

KEYWORD: yolhg
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old left-handed gentleman

KEYWORD: yolm
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old left-handed male

KEYWORD: yolw
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old left-handed woman

KEYWORD: yom
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old male

KEYWORD: yomn
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old man

KEYWORD: yop
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old patient

KEYWORD: yopt
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old patient

KEYWORD: yorhcf
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-handed Caucasian female

KEYWORD: yorhdm
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-hand-dominant male

KEYWORD: yorhdmn
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-hand-dominant man

KEYWORD: yorhf
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-handed female

KEYWORD: yorhg
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-handed gentleman

KEYWORD: yorhm
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-handed male

KEYWORD: yorhw
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old right-handed woman

KEYWORD: yos
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old son

KEYWORD: yosib
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old sibling

KEYWORD: yosis
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old sister

KEYWORD: yow
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old woman

KEYWORD: yowf
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old white female

KEYWORD: yowg
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old white gentleman

KEYWORD: yowm
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old white male

KEYWORD: yoyw
DESCRIPTION:
{@KEY BkSp}-year-old young woman

Feel free to e-mail me if you'd like!

Chickadee :)

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Thanks for responding..another question..
Have you tried making any contributions to the 401K since becoming an SE? I'm hoping to find something I can contribute to do I can save for retirement and at the same time reduce the amount of "profit" on my Schedule C and reduce my tax burden. Thanks!

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A -ha! I should have realized. Thx for responding.
nm

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okay, thanks for responding/explaining..NM

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I was responding to mt502...
.. saying that her advice was good. I mistakenly used anon as the source in my just posted post.

3 months at a place looks good on a resume and DOES look like you gave it a good try.

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Sorry, this was responding to Wondering Why. NM
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yes, pretty quick in responding sm
Very fast setup and training. Hopefully, it will work for you! Good luck to you and your husband.

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Thank you for responding. I'll get back to you. sm
Not sure what I want. I'm thinking of leaving MT and I feel that I have good qualifications for other types of transcription.

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Responding to poster "me"
What a wonderful story of the generosity of a stranger..have you ever seen or spoken to that man again? I would feel like I could never thank him enough..talk about the Lord answering prayer!

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Thanks for responding! Will definitely make a point to see it. - nm
zzz

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anyone had problems with AAMT responding to you
A few months back I decided to take the CMT since my job will pay me more if I have that little piece of paper that says I know something even though I have 18+ years experience. I contacted AAMT and was set up with a validation # to set up my test. When going through Prometric to set up the test I realized that all the Saturday slots were full so I decided to wait until after my time period had expired and reapply.  On reapplying I received the same validation# only for Prometric to tell me it was invalid.  I have tried contacting AAMT on several occasions about this to see if I can get a new validation # and they keep ignoring me.  I would like to get the CMT just because I can, not because I feel like it validates me. It seems like AAMT is too busy with other things to take care of the MTs that they are supposed to represent. At this point it isn't even worth the extra money to try and get a response from AAMT so I can take the silly test.....

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quit responding to the poster
 

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Your obvious ignorance is not worth responding to, NM
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Thanks to y'all for responding with such great input!
It is so important to stay within a similar range everywhere (taking the local market into consideration) so as not to shoot the industry in the foot. You have all been very helpful and it appears so far that the average is about 12 cpl but in the South (AR and TN) 10 cpl seems to be the ceiling. I will probably start with that as a base and go up to 11 or 12 cpl for "extras" such as pick up and delivery, printing, etc.

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Checked the BBB and got "unstatisfactory for not responding to complaints"
In my contract, it states that if I don't finish out the two weeks after giving notice, that they will not pay the last check (which is basically everything I have made!)... total it is only about 500.00 for the two months.  BBB is a good idea though.  I think I'll do that.  I know this has happened to other people, and its SO frustrating because this was my first job.  They are preying on new grads, and now I don't have a job!  At least I got some practice and got better though.

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I was responding to the post above asking if it was our responsibility to know the accounts we are w
nm

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Why would you even bother responding? Do you feel compelled
to read every post and type out your empty shallow thoughts as if they matter? Spare us all and shut up.

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I would simply stop responding. Don't send any reply

Why do people feel obligated to respond to every email that comes to the inbox?

Delete it and go on!

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Thanks for responding! I'm surprised we didn't have a Lucy and Ricky in the bunch ;-) nm
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old and tired
maybe you need the 14 bucks an hour to pay for those conference calls. i hear the editors have to pay for them all by themselves.

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Thank you Tired... :)

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tired of it sm
Not asked or told to do this.  Told they are "sound file reconversions" where the sound file is "fixed" and then the report goes back in the pool.  Sorry don't buy it.  If the sound is that bad, why do the report?  Why not send it to get the sound file "fixed" at the beginning?  Think its someone trying not to send something to QA.  They are always the difficult dictators.  Also was told that the sound file issues were resolved.

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You are SO right... I get so tired of...
listening to people complain about this country.. We have it so good here that we are totally spoiled.  It's shameful.  If these people would take a tour around the world and then come back here and compare our medical care, they would stop this nonsense.  Even in developed countries like Italy, things are a little weird.  I lived there 20 yrs ago and a friend had a car accident and ended up in an Italian emergency room instead of the army hospital.  The treatment?  A big glass of wine while sitting in the hallway waiting forever to be seen.  Forget the undeveloped countries, they barely have anything.  Even in Britain their facilities are not quite what we expect here.  We are spoiled.

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tired
definitely feel the same way. 23 years is long enough. wish i could do something else that made this kind of money.

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.......tired!

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I get tired of....
being sneezed on.  First of all, it hurts my ears if it is too explosive and secondly, I feel like I need a shower.  Is it too hard to turn your head and/or hold the phone away from your face? 

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tired QA
You were "not so perfect" at one time yourself......so unless you have a masters degree, don't be so critical i.e, you have been there yourself. Beside, if it were not for mistakes or uncertainty, you would not have a job either!

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Like I said - I'm tired of them not

speaking English to a point where you can at least "partly" understand.  My job is to type what I hear.  I'm not trying to "turn their accent into English anymore!"  -- I don't get paid enough "downtime" to figure this out!  --  Especially at $10/$11 an hour!!!!!

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