Such encouraging posts!
Posted By: mtab on 2006-09-06
In Reply to: Okay, I'll go first. I'm right at 300 and have been working for two hours. Already need a na - MissouriMT
Wonderful to read such inspiring posts! Thanks to all!!
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Isn't it refreshing to see some UPLIFTING, ENCOURAGING posts for a change ??
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That's encouraging.
The double dating was mean. When they disrespect you, they love to let the whole world know.
Glad you were able to meet someone nicer and especially someone secure with himself. Didn't know that existed. ha!
Thanks for your message.
Now THAT'S encouraging
I'm glad I posted and heard some feedback from people who actually feel that MT is still an enjoyable career choice.
Though I do realize that the majority of posts here are not negative in nature, it just seems that those are the ones that stick with me. Just beginning my education, I come here in search of a view of what I can expect, good and bad, but admit I do get discouraged to see the series of "I'm getting out of this" with replies of "right behind you!".
Thanks for your posts, your honesty, and, yes, even your venting.
that's encouraging
that you've had such a good experience. No, i hadn't checked the control panel -- but will. I had to disconnect and go back to old MS clunker to get the day done first....
Encouraging
Thank you so much for the wonderful post and the encouragement to not give up on a profession that I truly love!
I appreciate some of the encouraging
things you said, but the key words you stated are it takes time and experience, which is what I'm not getting by being taken off an account I'm just starting to get familiar with. Again, I have worked this field for 6-7 years and have worked for other MTSOs, and this is a first. As you said, you HAD to get used to it...not that it was right or decent for them to do this, just that you HAD to. Which is where their power lies in treating MTs so abdominably. Reminds me of the coal miners who HAD to buy from the company's general store. As I said before, if I'm paid hourly I'll do anything you ask, but in this situation they are asking us to LOSE money for THEIR profit.
Thank you so much for such an encouraging note!
I am going through a separation from my husband. He thinks a sacrifice is giving up going to the local bar when he gets of work, giving up his drunk he has on a daily basis, and just all in all growing up and taking on responsibilities.
I have been so down and depressed lately that I have to FORCE myself to work.
Thank you for being the angel on my shoulder today!
Thanks for your encouraging words
I'll keep trying. I really hope that something comes of it. I'm surprise at how many people have had success at it. With living in Las Vegas and working at home, the chances of meeting someone good are slightly diminished on my own.
Encouraging post.
I am definitely encouraged by your post and no it isn't easy. I decided to leave twice. The first time I packed my things, and my daughter passed away days later before I could find somewhere for us to go (11 yrs old). The second time I decided to leave, I ended up in the hospital from blood clots in the lung, systems failing, etc., and still recovering. I am now getting strong enough to consider it again. However, not totally there yet but today was just one of those days I felt very annoyed. However, it helps to read about others' success stories.
Continued success to you and thanks for your message.
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Thanks for the encouraging words
Thanks to those who shared words of encouragement. Hopefully, someday I will have gotten over this hump and be able to help others in my current shoes.
P.S. The 90-minute report/getting knocked out of your chair must have been a nightmare! Makes for a good story to share now though. :)
She has been encouraging MTs who are complaining..
such as yourself, to look in the mirror and take some accountability for ourselves...nothing negative about that...
Thank you!....that's very encouraging to hear !
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Just do a search and read the posts. There are plenty of posts about OSI on this board. nm.
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Hey, I admire you! I am 50, my DD is in college, and is always encouraging me to go, SM
I just don't know what to study! I am thinking of culinary arts.
Real encouraging there! How did your response help OP at all?
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If you have been successful at encouraging your child
My son, almost 19, has wanted to be in law enforcement since he was about 5. Lately, though, his motivation has been waning. Of course, he has a girlfriend, who incidentally *hates to work*. We really want him to consider joining the Air Force, get his college and training, finish his tour, and come home to work at the sheriff's department (I know, I'm probably dreaming right...). If you've been successful at encouraging your child this way, please share your experience and advice. 
Thanks. That is encouraging. My biggest concern is
visiting family at holidays and other times. Do you bring some of your own food or just pick and choose from what is offered? Or do you go "off the lifestyle" and then make up for the damage later?
A helping hand, sure. Not encouraging MT to
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"American" Association - yet they are encouraging outsourcing?
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My group gets encouraging emails and thank you notes
I guess I'm mature enough to read it and if it does not apply to me, ignore it the language in it and use the intent to make sure I am cautious.
Wanting encouraging, up-lifting friends who
make me a bad person. Sometimes it is better to be a friend who stands firm in believe MT can help herself than to be a bleeding heart that just keeps MT down by agreeing nothing can change, the situation will always be hard and why try to change it. If I was in a bad place, I would need friends to help me be brave and do what I had to do to change things.
I believe you may touch Frank on a personal level if you e-mail him. He is after all encouraging us
to ask him questions and to call him by his first name as did our beloved ex-CEO Gregg. Try this link. If Frank is truly our kind of guy, he will answer your personal questions and problems.
any encouraging words for a newbie with crappy line counts?
Today is my 3rd day of "real" work (not school) and I did 482 lines in 5.5 hours. That averages out to about 87 lines an hour.
How many lines per hour did you average at first? How long did it take to get faster?
I accepted an acute care position to get more experience, but now I'm wondering if I should have gone for a company offering clinic notes accounts ...
Please tell me it gets better!
Um have you read any of your posts and the other posts? I think everyone DOES believe me..you
There has been a lot of posts about them
over the past couple of months, few good. If searching with TRS isn't bringing up anything, search using the full name.
regarding most of the posts below
I just have to say that "redneck grit", I think is how one poster described it, does not only live in trailer parks! I know, for a fact, a used-to-be-nice neighborhood full of new homes--houses--where there are a bunch of rednecks. I'd rather live in a nice trailer park than in that neighborhood full of houses. Regardless of where or what you live in, there is always gonna be the not-so-desirables in the neighborhood-regardless! And most of the time, they live right on the main road or right at the entrance..go figure! 
not ALL posts are MQ...this is not..I am not..
you are just a slammer to slam...maybe YOU are the MQ person and that is why you are so mean and slam...afterall...not every post on this board is for or about or beause of MQ there are lots of other companies out there..good and bad
To below posts about MT pay and such
Just wanted to say my piece. Sure an MT can make money at 7.5 cpl. Sure many MTs can type 14,000 lines in a week and bring home 4K or more a month. SURE. The point is, however, WHY should we have to work that much? If we are not newbies and have all this experience under our belts, and not to mention a high standard of quality, WHY should we have to take a job paying 7.5 cpl? WHY. Am I not worth more than the MT who has just graduated from school? Yes! WHY should I not make more money? So, the attitude of most MTs these days is simply because we are not valued for the experience and quality that we bring to our companies.
You can't please everyone, don't let the posts get to you....
Most of us here are happy.
MAP - are you on AIM?
Thanks, everyone, for your posts. I just
don't know what to do, and I probably should just wait til the holidays are over before making a decision. Yes, I wish MTs would understand that we HAVE to mark their errors. We get QA'd, too, down the line in the food chain! I honestly don't ever mark the small stuff - that's depressing to me, too. Just an endless blurb of really horrible quality work - major errors, and not blanks! And yet I'm supposed to not stop and "really proof the work - just the blanks and push it thru. Its horrible. Occasionally I get some nice work, and I have faith again in the MTs, but more often its pure garbage, and American garbage, I might add. Not trying to start anything, but I seriously wish the quality of MTs in the USA could pick up a bit. Not to mention the attitude of some - not all - some newer MTs - they are vicious when you try to mentor. So there is no mentoring - just fix the work for them and push it thru. Drugs spelled phonetically, wrong body parts, you name it! Oh well. I think I have left myself no choice but to transcribe again! I miss it so! And it really doesn't save on the arms, as 1 poster felt. I am using the foot pedal and keyboard just as much, but all sporadically, not a smooth flow of typing. Its not all that great a job, that's for sure. Oh well Thanks, my fellow MTs!
Old posts say bad. nm
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your posts
The above poster was correct - you could have and IMO should have just not posted. When there is a post about something I'm not interested in, I just skip it.
But people like you have to be nasty and spread your venom everywhere. What about a little common courtesy and just leave the Soprano fans alone?
OMG - Best 2 posts on here EVER!!
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following posts
Is there a way to be notified by email when further posts are added to topics we have responded to?
Thanks EVERYONE for your posts! I
really appreciate it. Guess I have a lot of soul-searching and financial planning to do this weekend!! Now, if only I was off...
posts
They were replying to posts from quite a while back and just seemed to be stirring up trouble, for example the post with subject of "BLINDED".
Most of the posts are ... sm
because people don't have work. I wonder if you should switch jobs. What if you didn't have any work at all and could not feed your sick child (grandchild), whatever... It is a shame you can't work for a company that allows you flexible hours and can understand that you need a day off, too. Next time, make your coworker do the electives on holidays. JMO Cheer up!!!!
Cannot believe these posts
A post like yours reenforces people's attitudes about MTs not being a professional job. It is a JOB. It is not something you do so you can stay at home and do housework, take care of the children, tea etc. I wish each and every 1 of you who wrote posts like this would have to drive back and forth to your job, have a supervisor hanging around, make sure you dress appropriately and play the game of office politics. You might learn then to grow up some. My gosh!!!! From in the 70s until 1992 I worked out of the house and learned good skills and work ethics. I never have a problem then nor do I now keeping myself on a schedule. It is supposed to be a job, remember????
Thanks for all your posts...
Just to clarify, this is straight transcribing, no VR. I've been with the company only a week now and have not actually started doing "live" jobs, still in training and getting used to the program which is MedRite XL. I was previously with MQ using DocQScribe which I found EXTREMELY easy, pretty straight forward typing. Hadn't been on ASR there yet either as I left before the required training. MRXL seems to be a bit more complicated, but then again I've been on the system for only a few days and am still learning. As with anything, practice makes perfect!
I am not required to use the function keys and I have not been threatened if I do use the mouse. My trainer highly suggests I use the function keys instead of the mouse as she says it will increase my speed and my productivity. That may be so, but I still feel much more comfortable with the mouse and I usually produce 200-250 lph. There again, I could probably do more lph but I don't use Expanders a whole heck of a lot. I know if I could get comfortable with the function keys and expanders my productivity would probably increase dramatically, but I am of the mindset I don't want to take the time for a learning curve. I just want to sign on and start transcribing according to my comfort level. I know I could constantly look at my cheat sheet, but then that would slow me down at first and I would probably get very frustrated. Maybe if I could think in terms of what type of command the CTRL key does, what type of command the shift key does, what type of command the ALT key does, that might help. But there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what key does what and it seems to be just all memorizing, which at my age is kind of hard to do. Have too many other things swimming around in my head! Anyway, I just wanted to get an idea of how many MTs use the function keys vs the mouse, and if I was still back in the dinosaur age. Thank you all
Look about 3-4 posts below yours at the -sm
person asking for ortho sites. The reply has a web address that is pretty awesome. May help you-can never have too many reference sites. Good luck.
where's my posts???
Posted twice in the last 24 hours...but none of them are showing up!!!
Thank you both for the posts so much!
I appreciate your input because I also was feeling paranoid...it is kind of an awkward thing to talk about as was mentioned because you do not want to seem like you are complaining to get the easier work, but why does it get taken away when you get used to it, plan somewhat on how much you think you are going to make, and get into a real rhythm and do a great job with no errors.
I was hoping I was not the only one yet am also sad to see I am not also because it must be a deliberate practice.
It really is a dilemma because you do not know if you should or could speak up, whether it would change anything or not, or like I have had happen - as soon as I mentioned it my fate was sealed the last 2 jobs.
Again, I thank you for sharing, and if any consolation we are not alone anyway...
If you find a way around it, please share!
MT...most of your posts are
rude and heartless. You have your own opinion of course but it is a proven fact that depression is a disease. How can you say to this person....get up, take a shower and get a job. You are not helping this person but probably making it worse for him. Do research before you give such advice on depression. Glad I'm not your friend - you make me depressed with your posts.
two posts from me?
Sorry if there ends up being two...I thought I lost one. It shows in my posts, but not here. ???
many posts on top 3
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I'd look at all the posts here of
and then count your lucky stars you're being paid by the hour. If you're getting all this work in without OT than I don't think it would rise to the level of "extra" pay. If you're getting OT, there's your bonus.
From my posts on here I probably don't...sm
seem the best MT. I don't watch things on here. I just vent usually.
I would like to get in to acute care. I did do it for a couple of months with my company, but when the opportunity came for my cinic account back, I jumped on it cause I made more money on the clinic account because it had good dictators and most of the dictators on the acute care were TERRIBLE. They ended up not keeping that acute care account too long anyway for whatever reason.
I do need to get into acute care though. I know that is where the work lies.
Thanks to the posts below
I was going to look into Intant Text myself to see if it would improve my productivity better than AutoCorrect, but it seems to be too much trouble getting started and sounds complicated to use. I find AutoCorrect very easy to use and was up and running with it from day one without any problems.
Does Instant Text automatically expand from a few letters typed like AutoCorrect or do you have to choose from a list every time from a few letters typed?
For the below posts...
I have been searching for info on the laptop question for a while. Would any of you be willing to email me about what kind of setup you have with the laptop? I get so many conflicting views on what you need and don't need. I would love to hear from you about the things you have learned doing this.
Which was exactly what was said in posts above.
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exactly. But I have seen posts sm
lately on the word board that had the DTR thing and one that didn't know about rales and wheezes, normal stuff that you learn at the beginning. These people should not be transcribing at home by themselves!
I too prefer my books unless I can get to a Stedmans website for a word check once in awhile. MTs nowadays are not willing to invest what it takes to get going in this business and don't understand that it takes years and years to get the experience needed to be able to do this independently.
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