Some days I feel so mentally bored I wonder if I am losing my mind. nm
Posted By: ditto squared on 2007-07-05
In Reply to: Same thing, day in and day out...how do you do it?! - Hayseed
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Losing Mind
I guess about now after five weeks, I would be losing my mind too, seeing that the father was let go, even though he told those boys, no body, no crime, and the other two boys are let go. What lawyer father would tell his son no body, no crime and then not wonder what is going on? Of course, he knows what went down. Any law abiding father, when he sees that a girl is missing and his son, who was with her the night before asked about no body, no crime would go to the police. You think Natalees mother is acting like she lost her mind, I would be much worse. I would be protesting in front of the rich kids house, I would be speaking out every chance I got, shame the police into doing their job, which they obviously are not doing too well.
Yup, if you don't mind losing the account and/or
can afford it. I can relate - have been in the same boat. Its a cut-throat business. Chances are if they go with the new service, they'll be back calling on you when they find the quality of service lacking. But then again, they may not. Its hard, and I'm sorry for your situation.
It is so good to know I'm not just losing my mind!
Just out of curiosity, what does the 'sticky key feature' do? What benefit is there in using it?
oops... I'm 46.. and obviously losing my mind slowly.. nm
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I was losing my mind. It's not natural to be completely isolated like that.
I've changed careers and now have plenty of material to use in conversation with my husband, have made new friends - real ones - the kind you know what they look like, can meet after work for a couple of laughs, and talk to in person. I am so much happier now and can't believe that for a decade and a half my life consisted of sitting behind a keyboard staring at a monitor and often not using my voice all day long. Enough to drive anyone insane, isn't it?
We all feel very badly about the situation from the hurricaine but it is a big deal with MTs losing
the people and the offices they are used to and the fact that work is very short with some of these regions after you get transferred because many new people are put onto the accounts so why wouldnt it be a big deal when your income and accounts are jeopardized. What else is there for MTs.
I dont mind working 1 of the weekend days every week.
I just figure people get sick and doctors have to work them..
hey, psychic is in your mind and your posts. i'm an mt. i just feel when people ramble about th
they usually have tried to relax and don't realize how crazy they sound. no i don't have a clue. i am reading between your lines which aren't making sense. i pretend nothing. magic 8 balls and psychic is your area of "expertise", not mine.
Do you guys ever feel like just a number? Remember the good old days...
When if you had a problem, you could go straight to the manager and they'd take care of it right away, making you feel secure in your position and important? When I talk to my supervisor, I feel like her main focus is to get off the phone with me asap, being very short with me, and quick to say she will get right on something when in fact she never does. I just feel so remote and always worry about how long i'm going to have a job in the MT field because of how uncaring the supervisors are, not knowing us personally, not having a face to go along with the person, being able to yank us off an account we're comfortable with onto some ungodly thing where our line count goes down to zilch, and having NO control over it. I was never one to work around people because of all the backstabbing that goes on with women in the office, but I would love to have a home office to report to periodically throughout the year, and maybe work in-house a couple times a month, just to put a face with people and not feel like a number that would be easy to dispose of.
I felt crappy for 8 days..while coming off carbs..but now feel great..don't forget calories still
for those who are carb sensitive..its a godsend and a lifestyle. I really like this site: http://www.lowcarbluxury.com
there are TONS of wonderful recipes. I made the chicken cordon blue for the whole family and mock mashed taters..yummy!! Obviously not the same but I was a happy camper to have mashed again. Good luck!
I'm trying . . . husband mentally ill (sm)
and hasn't worked for nearly a year. I was working until I had to go to take care of sick dad for 3 weeks and husband didn't pay the rent. We've been in shelters and such since, now down to our last few days. This isn't the children's fault. They're the only thing I've ever done right in my life. I love them so much. But I'm scared of living on the streets, obviously can't do MT (haven't been able to since Feb since no shelters offer phones or Internet). I was thinking of seeing if they could be placed in foster care and trying to get myself OK in the head enough. what do you think?
Am I mentally challenged?
No, but you may be. Did you even read the post? I worked there for one week, invoiced them and did not get paid. Yikes, try comprehending what is written before attacking.
funny in a mentally challenged how sad
 you he/she board invader.
There are a lot of mentally ill people out there. No joke. Just different degrees.
Seriously, did you ever talk to someone who you just think might be one step out of reality but not enough to be considered full-blown crazy. Lots of my friends fall into that category. Sorry but its true.
Vitamins that make us mentally alert?
Which vitamin supplements can we take to make us more mentally alert as an MT? Thanks
Very nice around there. Good place to chill, hmm, mentally that
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Feeling healthy mentally and physically and being grateful for that. nm
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INMO, pros and cons to both -- easier on the hands but harder for me mentally.
nm
Your mind was in the gutter up there with sauteed stool, too. Would you please take your mind out of
30 hours divided by four days equals seven-hour days. Most of us have to work pretty much every day
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Working 6/hour days, 5 days/week I make
$42,000.00, but the work is there to make more if I want to. I'm in the southeast.
Bored!!!!
Help! I need a few words of encouragement. I feel as if I've been working 4 hours and it's only been 1-3/4!!! What can I do to psych myself out to get in my time?
I'm too hot to be bored!
nm
Really bored...
Broasted chicken and John Grisham. He's intelligent and a great storyteller, so I would be well fed and never bored on an island - perfect existence.
anybody BORED??
I am having a really tough time lately with being totally bored with what I am doing. Too many ESL doctors that put me to sleep or frustrate me beyond belief. Too much time with "no work available" and too much stuff in some reports that my line count takes a big hit b/c I'm spending tons of time looking things up... Anybody else feeling bored, burnt out, or whatever this is?? How did you snap out of it? I need to start making serious money at this, but can't seem to get there no matter what I do and so much of it is completely out of my control.
anybody BORED?
Do you have any of the computer programs made for Medical Transcription, such as medical dictionary, medical spellchecker, smarttype, etc. Since I have gotten the above and a few others,I spend less time looking up information and more time typing and some things as easy as a search engine (google.com) may be helpful. Good luck.
Anyone get bored?
Lately it is getting harder and harder for me to stay awake while transcribing - have done this for 20+ years and now have to take caffeine pills (even after getting 7-8 hours sleep) Do the same account every day, same work type (which I know I should consider as lucky), same long reports every day, very monotonous, nothing challenging and having a really hard time. If I complain the office staff will put be on discharges which will be even more boring. Used to get a mixture of short and long reports, now very seldom get anything short and am so bored - get up every hour and walk around 10 minutes or so - any ideas on pepping myself up?
Bored, bored, bored...
I hear you on the boredom front!
I think we are all victims of spring. New season, we want changes, we get restless, there's more daylight, and who wants to sit in front of a monitor 8 hrs/day typing the same repetative droning voices hours upon hours?
The only thing that seems to be a temporary fix for me is to blow off the work for 30 minutes and get outside for a walk. Take the phone off the hook and just go. You can't be productive when you get in a slump and sometimes doing something physical is the answer. Walk fast, swing your arms, head up, deep breaths and think about what you're going to plant in the garden, or what color you want to paint a room in your house, or maybe a new hair style.
I think this time of year we thrive on change, yet this job is not conducive to that so we have to create change elsewhere.
Wow. Now it has come down to me spewing this mystic inner-self stuff. See what being cooped up does to a person?
re: being bored
Hi there!
I have only been typing for about a year and a half so far but I just wanted to say that I do disability psych evals and they are always different to listen to. So if you want something different to do, try finding a company that does psych evals! I also have to walk for about 20 minutes a day just to get my blood pumping to my brain and hands which get sore too!
God bless!
Jan Setzer
Bored, bored, bored, bored, bored, bored....
:0 [yawn]
I'm bored too
Just interviewed for a QA position because favorite part of my job now is looking up unfamiliar words. But don't get paid for that. QA would be hourly salary and at least I would be challenged again.
Bored
So, I've decided that medical transcription is something I just can no longer do. I've been doing it for 16 years but I'm so bored, it's pretty near driving me crazy. Can't concentrate... vacuuming the house is more interesting that transcribing at this point. I took a week off not too long ago. That week went by far too quickly. Then I took 3 days off this weekend. So, here I am fresh from a good break, and am sitting here wanting to do anything other than transcribe.
I have no idea what other type of work I could do. All I know is transcribing feels pretty similar to getting smacked by a baseball bat! Painful all the same, minus the bruises!
2000 low days, 4000 busy days
Did 43,000 lines last month. 6 doctors.
You can "make a living" if you work 16-hr days, 7 days
and if you rarely buy anything but food and the barest essentials in clothing. My balancing act is so precarious that all it'll take is one of life's little disasters (rent increase, sick pet, major car repair) to pull the rug out from under me. Not a good feeling at all.
When I first started it did, but now I am bored. nm
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off today and bored...
That's where I stay when I go. You will never be bored
and then go to the Ocean's Club. They have some condos you can rent that are part of Atlantis too that are quite nice and they are within walking distance and you get to use all the amenities. That is where I would say to go.
That is bored and you are the trolls--nm
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I have been an MT for over 10 years now and I am so bored.
I can't stand being on the phone with anybody because I get so tired of hearing people talk all the time. I get irritated easily and my family is starting to notice it. My friends are upset with me because I don't call them as often as I should. The housework is definitely slacking. I even had to get a babysitter to watch my 9-month-old baby for me because it was too hard working late nights and then staying up all day, getting only minimal naps in before my 7-year-old came home from school. What is the point of working from home for very little and not being able to take care of my own family? I am interested in doing some billing. Do you think you can email me some information on how to go about this? I did some billing before and I enjoyed it, although it was working in a clinic. I am thinking about taking the tests but it's been so long since I've done anything else.
So bored I could scream
I thought working from home would give me more "flexibility" to be with my family; little did I know that I actually have less time with my family now than I would at a job in town.
To take time off, it must be scheduled months in advance. An emergency has to be cleared in advance. I'm so bored that I'm eating to keep myself focused and awake at night. I would cut back, but I don't earn enough to go part time. It is harder and harder to force myself to go to work, and harder and harder to stay focused, particularly when I have a bad dictator which is more often than not.
I think I'm so burned out I'm crispy around the edges.
BORED TO DEATH
 Does anyone else get sick and tired of doing the same work, same doctors, same everything day in and day out? I am bored to death with this job! I like the job just not the same stuff. I think I need a change!!!!
BORED? THE ANSWER
Dear FastMT,
I really like you and I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND AND EMPATHIZE WITH YOUR BOREDOM!! I have too many years (23) of medical transcription under my belt. I had 96 college credits in the academic curriculum, which is very interesting. I am really an academic person. I received an A average in high school in an academic curriculum and won a college scholarship based on my first 1-1/2 years of college (academic curriculum).
I sense that you, like me, have a higher level of intelligence and require much more engrossing and stimulating work than what medical transcription provides you. After the first several years, the whole challenge wears off, and then of course there is the distrust of exactly what these doctors are doing to their patients in the form of harm.
I would like to discuss this with you, because I sense I have the answer for you in the form of a career change. Would you please email me at my email address, which is: dove003@comcast.net? Please do email me, since I really think could have the answer for you!!
THIS IS NOT SOME GIMMICK AND I DO NOT REPRESENT SOME COMPANY. I only want to help you out. Please email me. Thanks.');>![](https://forum.mtstars.com/smileys/smirlove2.gif")
Linda
I got bored w/ it too, that's why I'm working my way up
Once you get in the door you can apply for different positions with enough experience. When working for a national, this field isn't limited to JUST transcription!
The VR is what bored me to death..sm
I would actually get to the point where I could feel my head nodding...80% of what I got was VR....I was beginning to feel retarded. The only straight transcription that was sent to me were the worst dictators, cause the company knew I would do it, take my time, research, relisten, etc. I've always felt more alive transcribing than editing.  Cat
Was bored, now happy in-house
I was bored and sleepy working at home doing acute care. I always found short reports a better rhythm for me. Nothing makes me sleepier than seeing an 18-minute report come up (usually STAT). Ugh. My production went so low I was let go, which was a blessing. I was out of work for 4 months and prepared to go back to school for something more active like nursing, but found a temporary position doing radiology for an in-house outpatient facility. I liked it so much I came on as an employee. I like the short reports, the contact with radiologists and techs, and having so much control over the referrer's database and quality. The radiologists remark they have never seen such good quality as mine. It is total satisfaction for me.
My son, who is 14, most definitely YES! He is constantly whining to me about being bored, but...
my daughter is starting Kindergarten this year and she is my baby and my last and I am going to be a blubbering fool probably the entire first week of school!
So? Are you just bored that you can comment so cruelly?
NM
Does anyone eat out a lot. I don't like to cook but am bored with the same old fast food.
Got any places not too expensive where I can get food to go. To go is the key. Bored with McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, delivery pizza. (Boston Market?)
Thanks.
I'm bored and dateless on a Saturday night...
Is it my basic personality?
My SIL's mom also wanted to work from home cause she was *bored*. nm
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I agree Taylor/Elliot. I think I would get bored with sm
Chris and Katharine's music. Though they are all in good positions to be picked up by a record producer. Look at Josh Gracin. He was 4th.
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