That is a noble thing, I believe . To serve for
Posted By: so many years and to keep at it. on 2009-03-22
In Reply to: actually have been in since 1978 sm - MT many years trying to stay sane
I started in the early 80s and worked my way through college, and decided to keep with it rather than go for my intended job in the liberal arts. I have never been sorry. I have always been inspired. From steno pad to manual typewriter, and rolling fax machines. From white out to voice editing, I still believe it to be a noble profession. Good for you!
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No, I wish. I actually grew up in Noble. sm
but I worked at the hospital in Norman for years. I wish I was still in that area. I loved it.
I think this is a noble cause/effort but it will
It is about money.
It costs less for businesses (nationals, small MTSOs, hospitals) to send their transcription overseas. Less costs to business relate to less costs to consumers and more insurance profits.
When it fails, and it will, all of you will be more angry, more upset, and feel more cheated.
I took a Barnes & Noble University course recently about
simplifying your life. It wasn't so much about uncluttering your house as it was about finding your inner happiness. Amazingly, it worked. I excavated the junk out of the house and we did some quickie painting and swapping out furniture. Then I quit all the part-time, temp jobs, and volunteer obligations that did not give me fulfillment. I took all that energy and sunk it into my MT work AND my life's dream. It's amazing how much better things are going since I don't have all those other things in my life. I have time for hobbies, I'm making decent money at MT for the first time ever, and I don't have to search the job ads for "something better" any longer.
Barnes and Noble or any other book stores where you
can sit and have a cup of coffee and look at the books. I am single too right now but not really looking but if I were, Barnes and Noble or the library. Also, I have found that when I am not looking at all, I meet somebody. Good look!!!
Barnes & Noble has cake magazines
in their wedding magazine section. It is a bit pricey for a small magazine (about $10) but they have pictures of every kind of cake you could possibly imagine! From the simple & traditional, to off-the-wall unique & creative. This is where I found the design for my wedding cake. 
what'd you serve with it?
mashed potatos, pasta, rice? All of the above! I'm a carb freak, can you tell. I personally appreciate any good, quick and easy recipes. It's like I never have time to "cook" anymore! I mean really cook, like mama used to!  excuse me, I'm gettin' all choked up! LOL
This is one I serve sometimes
Skillet-browned chicken breasts; chilled pasta salad; mashed sweet potatoes.
Make your pasta salad first and let it get good and cold before serving. Boil a bag of tricolor rotini and drain, immediately immerse in cold water. I add a drained can of LeSeur baby peas, a drained can of LeSeur baby carrots, sometimes a drained can of niblet corn, and any other tender veggies you want. Toss with about 1 to 1-1/2 cups of either low-fat Italian or Ranch dressing, depending on the taste you want. Chill until dinner.
Chicken: Heat 1 tablespoon of extra-virgin olive oil. Rinse and pat dry your boneless skinless chicken breasts and simply rub with salt and pepper -- gently brown in the olive oil.
Mashed sweet potatoes: Peel and cut into chunks 2-3 good-size sweet potatoes. Boil until tender and drain. Mash with salt, pepper, and a dash of milk.
Does it serve your financial needs?
The main criteria for any job wage would be whether you think it is a fair trade for your skills and will it provide what you need it to financially.
I personally would not work for $15 an hour. However, your needs may be different from mine. I also have other options. You may not.
It is a very subjective question and one that only you can really answer.
Got an air horn?!!! Would serve them right to lose their hearing! nm
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In France, they serve Lapin (rabbit)...yum
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Yes, we idolize people who do drugs and serve placenta pate.
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Always fresh, the baby spinach. Need a few bags to serve a crowd, though. nm
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Choose any menu, prepare, serve and enjoy. If they don't want to eat, their prob. This should
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You can serve chili sauce or a chutney spread on a bar of soft cream cheese to put on
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Ebonics: Not a black thing or white thing. (sm)
I don't think there's any cause to get upset or defensive here. Look it up on line...even colleges are offering courses in Ebonics! ...well of course they are more sociology-type courses, but still, people are PAYING to learn about the why's and how's of this "other" language.
A quote from one of the sites I found:
"UT-Austin's "Introduction to the Study of African American English," teaches students that the sentence, "Nobody didn't leave" is not "mainstream English with mistakes," but rather a legitimate English dialect. "Ebonics: Myth and Facts" and "African-American English" are both offered at Harvard. Penn and UCLA also promote Ebonics as a legitimate dialect in, "Introduction to African American and Latino English" and "Afro-American Sociolinguistics: Black English," respectively."
Here's the link: http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2002/september_2002_2.html
Best thing - I am my own boss and my own emloyee, worse thing - I am my own boss and my own
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A "man" thing? What the heck is a "man thing?"
"I was told it was a "MAN" thing and everyone does it (i guess all men)"
whenever anyone takes an action and relates it to a whole gender and then tags on everyone does it....well, I guess there's your answer
And the best thing of all, it's
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Thanks gj...the only thing I can tell you...sm
is that I just worked some overflow stuff and kept looking until I found what I wanted. I am lucky enough not to have to depend on my income right now, so I was able to be much more picky. If you would like more info, let me know and I can email you. Hope all works out well with you and thanks for the good wishes.
one more thing sm
 I was only referring to the bitter ones here who work for MQ, not all MQrs. I am one of the MQrs, ya know! Please get your facts straight before you post a response!
One more thing... (sm)
Tell her if she is willing to travel, there are PLENTY of jobs for traveling coders.
I just had to add one thing (sm)
You need to stop thinking you are owed, whatever the situation may be.
Hard work does pay off and if you're working for the wrong people, there are many more out there. I've found a lot of "wrong people" in this business, LOL.
one more thing...sm
I suck at OP notes...does this matter? 
YOU ARE SO RIGHT - IT WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID ALSO!
And I too heard from companies I didn't even know existed!
I was told by a couple of them that they don't post on this board because they received calls and resumes from people who did not read what the positions were for and it was a nightmare. They made requests for no overseas need apply and of course, overseas would call and apply. If it was a certain requirement, say 5+ years experience, newbies would apply. Just things like that.
same thing
This profession is going to hell in a hand basket.
The only thing I have to say is sm
why on earth would anyone stay with ANY company if they are treated so poorly? A good MT still has a whole lot of options. Assuming these complaints about SS, MQ, KS, Spheris, whatever company, are true, why do people continue to work for them?
one more thing
Go you for watching something that is hard to watch and for trying to inform yourself and others, please spread the word, what an idea to get this into schools, but probably will never happen. There are many videos out there that you can purchase for nominal fees and hold private showings for friends and family members, one person tells one person and so on, keep the information flowing!!!!
one more thing (sm)
If you are talking about disability insurance on your mortgage, credit account, etc. be very, very careful when you purchase it. Read the fine print on the contract. A friend of mine is terminal and had disability insurance on a number of her accounts. The one on her second mortgage is still paying. She had one on a credit card and those weasels charged her $15 every month for the insurance fee, paid $16 on the balance of her credit card each month, and then after a year said they were done paying! Read the fine print!!
My dad is going thru the same thing....
From what I was told he is having all checks made out to her estate and not him personally (he is the executor). She had some stocks ($2000-$3000). If the checks were made out to him he has to pay tax on them but if they are made out to my grandmother's estate then she is responsible but since she did not make enough money in 2005 there will be no taxes taken out. I may be wrong but that is my understanding of the situation.
VR may NOT be the Next Big Thing...
MedQuist has been trying for years to push VR on the hospital radiology department I transcribe for and they absolutely REFUSE to use it. MQ was always like "try it, you'll like it" and I believe they did try it one day and that was it. MQ finally gave up. So there is hope for us all yet!
My son did the same thing.
He was in football and really did well. Everyone in the family always talked about how great he was with football. Then he decided to quit one day. I was so disappointed because I knew he could have gotten a college scholarship. It is SO tough to be supportive of someone when you think they're making the wrong choice. My Dad got on my son's case about being a quitter and an underachiever. He really came down hard on him, so I had to defend my son. In defending my son, I changed my own thinking. I realized that although we give birth to these adorable little babies, they are their own person. They're going to do things that we would have done differently. What can you do? You can't impose your will upon them. We all have dreams for our children. However, their dreams are more important than our expectations of them.
My son just did the same thing...
to him and we all had to adjust our schedules to accommodate him and he just quit. This was going to be his senior year on the varsity team. Unfortunately, he did not participate in anything else for his whole high school career, so now he has no activities resume. You can't tell him anything though. He does do extremely well in school and takes several APs as well, but it was disappointing. He was going to try to get an internship with our local hospital, but of course, that never panned out. Now he works about 15 hours a week and hangs out the rest of the time. His attitude is getting really crappy too, but his father won't do a thing about it. He took his car the other night, but gave it back to him the next morning. Yeah...that really taught him a good lesson :(! He has been really frustrating me lately. He is a great kid and when he is good he is the best, but when he isn't, he is just unbearable. He's not into drugs or drinking or partying and is a homebody, so I guess I have no real complaints. Maybe it's me not handling his new "adultness." pheww....that was a vent and a half!
Same thing here
Arizona-- not even in the HOTTEST part. Couldn't stand to live there any more. I am anxiously awaiting fall, too.
Going through the same thing.
It is VERY frustrating.
I did the same thing...
There were 3 different times I have done this. Twice, I needed to be out of town and once last month when my daughter had surgery. It wasn't so much the money as making my minimum lines for my phone reimbursement, which I am still waiting for after 6 months of putting in the second line, but that is a whole other thread!
and another thing
That's how I even learned what a macro, expander, acronym was - when I worked for MQ/TL 10 years ago. These are tools now thare are quite invaluable to me. $120 investment was worth. Sounds like a lot, we probably spend that on the first two isles in Wal-Mart.......
same thing
happened to me. I canceled the credit card. Also recently when I had to find a new physician/medical group, I asked if they outsourced to another Country and if they did I did not choose them. I wonder how many patients would stay with a physician/medical group if they knew their records were going somewhere else, granted some have no choice.
It is one thing to have fun, but that was
disgusting and perverted. I bet that guy was a molester or something.
I get the same thing
It's a big joke. They don't realize how they are pushing people right out of their once great company and they are heading right down the tubes, under bidding jobs, promising things they can't keep and taking it out on who? The people who make the money for them. With MTs, no Medical Transcription company!
I only have one thing to say...sm
I agree wholeheartedly!
It really ticks me off when someone has something positive to say about MQ, and then they get bashed to death!!! 
Like so many times before it has been said; If you aint happy, there's plenty other places out there to work. FIND ANOTHER JOB!
And don't hate on the rest of us who are happy with our jobs, be it withMQ or anywhere else!!!
one more thing...
Don't plan to drive through Cuba NM on a Friday or Sat night unless you like being stuck in traffic (I hear its a big thing to "cruise" there on the weekends and hear they drive very very slowly). I have never been there myself but can believe it because some people in NM really love and make an art out of tricking out their cars and showing them off. Someone can correct me if I am wrong. I think it holds true for a lot of small towns, just this one in particular I have heard mentioned more than once.
One more thing........
If you re-read my EXACT post, you will see that I said it will be DIFFICULT TO DO BUT I WILL MANAGE.
My kids DON'T have set schedules on when they wake up, need a changed diaper, are sick, or get hungry or thirsty, therefore, that makes it difficult for me. Again, I am 100% happy with MQ and am not complaining, just simply stating I will adjust. What gives you the right to attack me for stating that?
One more thing sm
The rates I quoted are average. I am a CMT and make more per hour and I have been doing QA for a long time. This is an average rate for QA that I quoted.
One more thing (sm)
Remember your child will need social skills as well, so I'd definitely encourage an outside activity with other children, and when 16, maybe even a volunteer job or part-time paying job. I can't believe I forgot to type this part because this is so very important.
One more thing
If he had access to your car, even if it was while you were sleeping and he got up in the night and took your keys, take your car to a car alarm business and have it checked for a global satellite positioning system. I found one on my car hooked into my radio so every time I cranked my car, the GPS sent out my route to a web site that he could access for less than $10 a month to see where I was.
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Hey! That's the same thing I do.
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And one more thing
I didn't find it funny, it was a serious question!!!
I do the same thing...
Can't seem to get enough of this job! ARGH.
My boy did the same thing
in high school. He insisted on black jeans, blue/black shirts and tops, sometimes a gray t-shirt, very monochromatic. I tried buying "blue" jeans for him and they just stayed in his drawer and he wore the black ones. He is now 23 and just now buying a few "blue" jeans. As long as grades, moods, friends, etc. seem to stay about the same, I would not worry too much.
One more thing to add...
Speaking of rebelling, if you DO make a big deal out of it repeatedly, that's when the rebellion will come out. You know that old story about someone forbidding you to do something and that makes you want to do it even more out of rebellion? I'm not saying this woudl be the same if it were something serious - you SHOULD forbid it; but this to me is not even something that falls into the category of something to be concerned about. Just my opinion - fads come and go! Just let her be herself and she'll appreciate you and respect you for it.
Just one thing to add to that....
Spell check! Looks like that one fell through the cracks...LOL
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