The stress of the job keeps me biting my nails. No nails here! nm

• POLL - sm - Shorty
  • WhenI was paid by the hour, I kept them LONG ......sm - No-nails MT
  • The stress of the job keeps me biting my nails. No nails here! nm - MT
  • Right now, medium, but - Sara
  • must be long - JanieB
  • short, can't type with them long and also wear - me
    • Hygiene issue? What do you mean? - ??
      • All kinds of cool stuff gets under the nails. Ask forensic scientists. - Hospital won't allow them
        • Lots of cases where babies in NICU got sick from the nurse's nails. nt - YEP
  • Medium to long length acrylics. - Husband loves long nails....
  • Long. - Busy MT'ing
  • Love mine long. I have acrylics on 1/2 of them. nm - editor
  • Long, long, long - Patti
  • Just cut mine today... - JoH
  • I finally have nice nails. - not long, but not stubby
  • NAILS??????? ROFL - Stubby
    • ROFL here, too. nm :) - Nubs
      • I'm with you guys. Typing teacher used to make us keep nails short. nm - nailbiter

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I just got nails put on last week and am having a difficult time getting used to them.  If you have long nails, do you type with the tips of your nails or your fingertips?  My nails are not very long at all, but it seems like they are hitting the wrong keys and I'm constantly having to back up and fix mistakes plus my wrist is starting to hurt.

Any ideas besides removing them?  I'd like to give it a little more time to see if I can adjust.

Thanks.

Love NOT getting paid while sitting doing my nails too.  It's a real turn on.

I tell all my friends to try it -- sit in front of your computer while you have no money to pay your rent and instead do your nails, you get a real buzz down in the pit of your stomach.

I've transcribed since 1983.  You can lessen hand stress if you observe how you hold your hands as you type.  When I was in my twenties I noticed that there was a real difference in the way I held my hands and how the older transcriptionists (they had their wrists up and hands pointing down at the keyboard).  I have always had my wrists laying on something and my fingers are going up.  I have never had one bit of carpal tunnel or pain whatsoever.

i am quite upset.  one of my co-workers passed away.  we here all know it was from job stress, but we are not to admit it and were repremanded so by our superiors.  basically it came down to "die or get fired".  lucky for her she died before she could get fired.

now i am sitting here at work today wondering what the heck am i supposed to do? we cannot talk about the job stress and that is what did her in, but she was sick and getting sicker and this is why she passed away.  she was sick and getting sicker from the stress dawg-gone it. 

nobody gets it.

tuesday she told me that a lot of her sickness had to do with wondering if she was going to have a job or not and what would she do if she got fired?  she was beside herself with worry.  she worked her for 25 years, and was a good employee and excellent Transcriptionist until the new supervisor took over and started ragging on her like a pit bull dog and his prey.  and this is a catholic hospital.  i guess this is the new christian work ethic.

i need to vent.  any comments would be appreciated but since i am at work please make them nice.  i have had enough bad stuff happen around here today.

So, you're saying that you got tired of the stress and long hours so you bacame a TRANSCRIPTIONIST!  You crack me up.  Everybody knows that as a Transcriptionist there is never any stress or long hours.

When my kids were young, there were a few tricks I used to cut down on hectic mornings.  I didn't make sandwiches ahead but I did prebag chips and cookies and place is a drawer.  That way just had to reach in and grab a couple of bags and lunch was halfway prepared.  The night before, kids always picked out the clothes for the next day.   And there was no changing minds that morning either, or they lost 1/2 hour of TV time.  Also, backpacks got loaded up the night before and placed by the door.  A little extra thought and effort the night before made mornings a little less hectic.

have several reports for you to transcribe have different degrees of difficulty.  One may be ESL, one may be dictating on a cell phone on his car, one may be trying to do a 15 dictation in 3 minutes, etc.   Leaving a blank is definitely better than guessing.   They are just trying to get a feel for your skill level.  Okay you can't do the ESL or the speedy doc, but you can do the orthopedic doc with ease.  

They may need someone for a difficult account and maybe you won't get that job, but they may need someone for clinic notes, or maybe an easier account and you would do well with that.   You'll get paid less than if you could so the slurring doc without blanks. 

With the slurring doc listen to the report one time time all the way through.  Don't try to fill in any blanks.  Next go back and listen again, this time trying to fill in blanks.  You may be able to get one or two of them this time around.

If you don't pass/get hired at least it was one more experience you have had. 

I don't test well.  I can ace the transcription part, but if they have questions on the test I may not do well.  I had one test that was timed and I was really freaking because I didn't know some of the answers without looking them up and the test timed out on me before I even finished it.  They still offered me a position.

One thing is for sure, you won't get the job if you don't turn in the test.