So what do you do to keep motivated to type during the work day? Sometimes I find it so hard to...
Posted By: KYMT on 2006-04-29
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stay focused. When you're working at home it is soooo easy to turn on the TV, take frequent breaks to answer the phone, talk to hubbie, play with the kids, take a hot bath, play solitaire on the PC, surf the net, post on a message board, etc.
I just wondered if anyone had any miracle cure for the wandering mind?
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i have a Geneticist that i type and find it extremely hard with the terms of all the genetic disabli
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Yes, it is hard to get motivated that way.
I've had my own clients and worked for MTSO like the one you're describing and had similar problems with both. Gave up my own clients because I was tired of the hassle, then ended up with an MTSO that started great but always had some excuse why pay wasn't on time, and never their fault. I found another MTSO to work for, only I made sure this one had direct deposit. Now check is there every time, on time, and they use a platform so no "lost" files because you can track everything. I wanted you to say there are better MTSOs and MT situations out there in case you decide not to go with the new job, but I have to say, the new career path sounds like a great opportunity. I hope it works out well for you! I've often thought it'd be nice to find a legit FT at-home job NOT in MT so let us know how it goes.
How do you find a balance in this type of work...
with family, friends, hobbies, etc and still have time to type! Is it possible, if so, how?
No. MTs who are not motivated end up talking and we did all the work
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So, you think it is okay for hard-working MTs to earn 7-8 cpl for their hard work?? nm
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I'm sorry, but I find this hard to believe sm
 You actually expect us to believe that you work part-time and still do 16,000 per pay period at MQ. How? What's your secret? You must be superwoman or something! Cause I work full time and can't do that many lines! Boy, am I jealous!
I still find it really hard to believe.
There are hundreds of thousands of people who will be just throwing their TVs away because they'll refuse to pay for cable or dish. What about all the elderly people? No way are they going to pay for something that's been free since it was invented. I do have basic cable, but it's mostly smut and garbage on there. I only keep it for PBS and Disney channel right now, but we've been seriously considering cutting it off. Every time we try to watch something on TV, the ads for other programs are just not something we like to expose our children to. If we cancel cable, I guess we'll just watch DVDs and not have TV at all any more. (Or watch it through the Internet like we listen to the radio now.)
Trying to find the way out? It's not THAT hard...
get another job! GET ANOTHER JOB! GGGEEETTT ANNOOOTHHHERRR JOOOBB!!!! ROFL
OMG, you really can't be serious with that line, can you?! Trying to figure it out? TRYING?
You apply...you interview...you accept another position...you work both jobs until you're up and running with the 2nd one and then you QUIT MQ!
And since no one at MQ seems to have any work except MY office, then that should be a real breeze for ya!! You're obviously not working anyway! OMG how many brain cells are you actually utilizing to stay where you have no work or they crap all over you like you claim?!
Oh, that is SOOOOOO hilarious!!!!!!! I do appreciate the humor, people! Really, I do!!!!!
Please don't type in all caps, hard
to read and is considered screaming on the net.
I think it's illegal too. I find it hard to believe
you've earned. Talk to an attorney who specializes in employment law.
I find it hard to believe that the MTs overseas
experienced at MT, but that's just me. These companies are just trying to save money, plain and simple because people in those countries can and will work for peanuts.
Because...I worked so hard to find it. You can to if you try..nm
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I can barely type I'm laughing so hard
Yes, you are going to get slammed for saying some of that stuff, but it is Hilarry-ious!!! And, oh so true. Oh, my side hurts!
Yes, it's hard for me, too. It's such a struggle to find money
to buy gifts for people. I always try to give something I know they collect or a gift certificate to a restaurant or book store. In return, I've gotten Fingerhut freebies, an employee baseball cap, and clearance bath stuff in nasty fragrances like Freesia with the tag left on. I don't see the point in it. I wish our families would agree to stop giving gifts to adults. I seem to be the only one that feels this way. Then again, that's not fair because I've got the most kids.
Sorry, just don’t find the hard workers here you are talking about
Most of us have the good life and would not dream of doing the jobs Hispanics do. I used to work at least 2 jobs to have the kind of money I wanted and had more jobs than that at 1 time- hardly anyone wants to work like that. I think America has gotten soft in a lot of ways whether school systems, work ethics, children and too numerous to count ways. You can bet your bottom dollar if an American is standing out with a sign saying will work for food- ha! Try to get them to come work and see what happens. Your president needs to close the borders- until then I will get the best person I can to work for me, to do a good job and not grip the whole time nor sit down wiht the job half done.
Also, good MTs hard to find. Might be worth
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MTSO knows hard to find good MT,especially 1
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Harder on my eyes than my ears but I find it hard to
believe that listening to dictation could cause hearing loss. Blasting music through headphones maybe, but not dictation. I've been doing this for 20 years and have not noticed any difference in my hearing.
However, my eyes get soooooo tired. I've started zooming in to make the print look bigger and that helps a lot.
When you are really smart like this, it's hard to find anything to hold your attention.
The Olympus DS-330 has been discontinued-- hard to find now expecially for $99 - sm
I just got one for $140 total (with shipping, new off of ebay). They have new models out to replace the DS-330 about $150 and up, you have to shop around to find the best price. I got the unit for myself to check out how they work, etc., also to record my husband sometimes so I can play it back to him when he says "I never said that".....have some fun with it.
I think one reason MTs find it hard to have diverse skills (s/m)
is that for all these years we have been pigeonholed into just one specialty - typing medical reports. When I started MT at my organization, we had a variety of duties. Now we just sit and type. Interestingly, the few who got promotions within or out of the MT department were the ones who weren't too smart, and not very good MTs. The good MTs were kept where they were needed - doing transcription work only. And the smart ones are considered a threat to management, so they have no hope of ever advancing.
I've been to night school to try to broaden my computer skills, and the community college system is totally not on the cutting edge. Everytime I learned something useful, it became obsolete before we could ever implment it in our workplace.
I've looked into changing fields, and one of the big stumbling blocks is all the prerequisites for just about any field of study. Many of them involve the math & science classes I was steered away from due to my gender. (This was the 60s, remember... it was still legal to discriminate back then.) I looked into training as a veterinary technician, and working full-time and going to night school, getting all the classes in that I missed in high school was going to eat up about 4-5 years. It would probably take even longer to get into the vet-tech program. By the time I graduated, I would probably be in my early 70's. What veterinary hospital is going to want to hire a 70 year old newbie who will either retire or die before she's even learned the ropes at the new job?
Meanwhile, what ticks me off is that MT's are expected to have a very broad knowledge of English, medical terminology and computers, and be whiz-bang typists as well. And yet the same people that want speed, accuracy and experience, don't want to pay squat for it.
Even with multiple GOOD dictators, I still find it hard - sm
to do '8 hours' worth of transcription in less than 11-12 hours, mainly due to the lack of ability to make templates, as each doc does his H&P entirely differently. Also they want extraordinary accuracy, grammar clean-up, and proofreading done on each report. So a longish H&P can sometimes take an hour.
Have heard it is hard to find position in coding
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Your MTs will find it hard to make any money with eScription.
I've got my fingers crossed; makes it hard to type!nm
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How hard is it to type a word in a blank space? I'm afraid
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A good MT is hard to find. Check back with those 2 companies
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I meant bought. Hard to type and listen to the music at the same time.
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I would not; most of the time those type files, although not usually hard medical terms, take lots l
to type and are very difficult as it is hard to hear with background noise, different speakers, usually no macros, etc. I think they are worth more pay, not less. I also get paid by the word at 0.008 and had figured mine to be about 0.09/line as well in the past. stick with where you are.
You and me both. MQ is totally sick. They had better find another type of business to get into
because they have failed miserably with this.
I find myself cringing everytime I type a cath
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nm would you mind if I asked where you work and what type of work hosp, clinic ?
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Just return the work, submit your bill, the scurry and find more work elsewhere. sm
They will never meet with you before next week. It is Thursday, already. Be prepared to sue for payment, because you will probably need to. But, most of all, find other work elsewhere, because I have a feeling this final payment will be a long time coming.
I know...Trust me, I WORK HARD when I work! lol nm
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How many of you ICs have to work really hard to
make double your money in one week in order to take a vacation for one week. I'm forever finding myself wanting to go on vacation, working doubly hard to make up any money I will lose while I'm off either before I leave or when I come back. Is this the way everyone takes a vacation or is it just me? I can't seem to give myself a break and just take off any time without making up my money that I'll lose. GRRRR. I think I need a break!
 
hard ever, except now no work
at MQ, so I have to do something while I keep logging on/off DQS hoping a doctor will dictate a report. 
You did all the hard work. If someone wants
their own accounts they need to do whatever work needs to be done to get them. People are frequently asking how to get their own accounts - well DUH.
Just like people asking which is the best company and who pays the most, etc. If they want a job do the research. I don't mind helping guide someone in the right direction, but I'm not going to do their leg work for them.
I wouldn't fill bad at all.
I believe it can be done, but I know how hard you must work...SM
I just finished my 12-hour day and did about 2,500 lines. I'm exhausted. I had a bit of interruptions today, so I possibly could have done more. Yesterday I did about 1,700 lines in a 10-hour day, which again was full of interruptions. I can't see myself consistently producing that amount day in and day out. My wrists and arms already hurt.
All the power to the 3,000 line a day producers! You are awesome and a very hard worker!
We all work hard, MT and QA both
no doubt
There's a lot of hard work that goes into
"being the middleman". They have to secure the account, make sure it stays in TAT, keep their eye on any errors or changes and make sure the MTs understand and follow the rules, make sure the clients are always happy, hire the most competent MTs, make payroll, etc., etc.
So before you jump to conclusions and think MTSOs have nothing better to do than being the middleman, think again. I'm not being nasty, just pointing out some facts.
okay now i'm motivated but
The most I can get is about 1700 lines and thats on a very rare occasion, without some sort of hand, arm, wrist, finger pain making me stop. And if for some reason I do not have pain, I get distracted (my own darn fault), but I find it hard to stay focused for a consecutive two day stretch, ill have one good day, then throw it all away the next day. As far as the pain, if youre only getting the numbness, and with the lines youre typing, maybe i'm sitting wrong or using the wrong keyboard.
Need to get motivated
Ok, here's my situation. I've been working as an MT from home for 10 years. I have loved it for the most but it does have its negatives. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. I have decided to apply for an MT position with a hospital and I would still be able to work at home. They require 60 minutes of dictation to be transcribed each day. At first I thought - no problem - but now that I've thought about it I am getting kinda worried. I have lots of experience as an MT but I'm getting cold feet now! Can I do this? What if I can't (how embarrassing!) I'm starting to realize that I would really have to buckle down and stay incredibly focused! In other words, I'd have to get rid of all my bad habits like surfing the web, stopping to do a load of laundry, etc. I do not normally do 60 minutes a day. So can an old, somewhat unfocused MT learn to become focused and extremely productive again? That's the question. I am not a lazy person but I do know that over the years I have become a bit slack in my work habits. Now that I have this chance to work at a great place making good money, I want to shape up my act and go for it - but part of me wants to just stay status quo. Maybe I am lazy! Grrr.... Not sure how to pick myself up and self myself to an employer and get seriously motivated but I know there is a part of me that says - go for it! Any suggestions? Any comments? I guess I'm looking for some support here and a dose of confidence too! Thanks.
The work just trickles in every day. Hard to get
get on the dictation system, only to find NO WORK. Or just a report or two. And a bunch of other transcriptionists fighting for what little there is too.
I think my company overhired BIG TIME. I think they hired a bunch of the people who jumped the ship from Medquist.
If you are really feeling like this is hard work...sm
then maybe you are one of the many transcriptionists out there who are working HARD and not SMART. If you are SMART you will learn how to use your skills to acheive the MAXIMUM payoff.
The majority of Transcriptionist I have met really do not KNOW how to increase their line counts, how to be INDEPENDENT, how to SELL their services, etc. Instead, they are CONTENT making under 30,000 . You have to be SMART in this business and quit SELLING yourself SHORT. Learn everything you can about BEING THE BEST in your profession. The work is OUT there!!!!!!!! You need to seek it and turn down the CRAP that doesn't make $$$$. I am only a 5 year MT and last year I made close to 52,000 after taxes. Get motivated and get moving. The work is there!!!!
P.S. - Not saying I don't work hard and don't deserve
good money but I just mean that you've got to have some incentive to work as hard as you have to work to get through medical school in order to have people willing to do it.
The MT world is hard work (sm)
Honey, I've been a Transcriptionist for 20 years and believe me, it is hard work. But it was even harder when my children were small (I had 3 of them). It sounds like she knew the job wasn't working out and had to do something about it. I agree with the other poster...try not to take it personally.
Actually more than being lucky, your hard work
paid off. This was what I posted about. You, like me, had on the job training for about a year and it was hard and I really worked hard to get the transcription part right while striving to make production. I worked some on Selectric, even though clanked did not mind at all. This was not a job I took in order just to work from home. It was done because I loved the medical field and never had a clue some day I would be working at home but that was yearsssss down the road. We were a training hospital and some nights I would go home almost in tears, really hard but I really did not think all the others in the room smarter than me and that was my incentive. It paid off big time. My speed has always been about 140 while helps and even now after all these years look forward to each day. I do not work full time any more but hey, I deserve some extra time to myself now. I have earned it!
How do you stay motivated?
I have been transcribing for years - feeling burned out - can't concentrate and keep on typing enough to make much money. Does anyone have any tricks for staying motivated??
Motivated Production
When I first started working by the line, as I got closer to where I wanted to quit for the day, I would tell myself "I can do 5 more reports." Don't think about the lines, only the reports, let the dictation flow through your mind. You can use this technique per time period (every 2 hours, 4 hours, whatever works for you). If you can't face the prospect of 5 reports, make it 3. Once you have been doing this for a few days you WILL see a big increase. Those reports are the BONUS you are giving yourself. Don't think about who is paying you at this point, think about what you are paying yourself. I know you can do it. You can e-mail me if you want some encouragement, I have been at this full time since 1976.
I found out the hard way that first in always have the work. Supervisor sm
doesn't care what time I work. As was stated to me first come first serve.
It is hard to work for someone who drinks, and even worse
when they don't think they are an alcoholic. It really fries their brain,they are moody and unpredictable, and fly off the handle for no real reason.
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