This IS the typical trash situation that exists now for us at-home MTs. I'm thinking of leaving,

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It is not meant to be offending to anyone, just an honest statement made by someone. Everyone grew up differently with different values and "prejudices" handed down to them, or "on them", and we as adults see that and try to correct it. Prejudice is learned, and I for one am learning how not to be prejudice!

Oh, please, please! unless you know what you are talking about.....and by this I mean first-hand knowledge and not going by personal feelings....do not judge another by what they say or how they take care of their dog.

Debarking, shock collars, and citronella collars all have their place. What has happened to just plain ole' put the dog in the house? If the owners are at work and the dog cannot be trusted alone, a crate works wonders! Dogs generally bark a lot because they are lonely and/or bored.

The dog is not to blame, the OWNERS are.

BTW, MslaMT, when a dog is debarked, the voice box is not removed. Tissue in the vocal cords are reduced either by a surgical incision or laser. This reduction only changes the pitch of the bark, it does not eliminate it. The dog can still bark and he/she can bark to their heart's content....they have no idea they've had a procedure done, all they know is that they are not being told to shut up it. Their bark can come back over time, but this is not the norm.

Your bad behavior has to be tolerated and the heck with everybody else. Another example of bad manners.

lines in about 12 hours and another day I'm lucky to get 1000 in 8 hours. I have an expander, have a few templates but don't get those dictators on a regular basis. I do NOT have to enter any demographic information or look up addresses, etc. I work in batches, don't have to save each report separately. I have enough experience that I rarely have to work up anything, but also will spend 30 minutes searching for something rather than leave a blank.

I get up frequently. I try to apply myself for at least a good hour or more and then take a short break. My feet swell really bad and I'm getting butt spread so I try to get up and move around. I never thought I was a particularly fast typist, but did the time clock thing and found that I was averaging 270+ lines/hour. Some days I work 6 hours/day, some days 8 to 10. I may have a superduper day where I make 3000 lines/day, but the next day I only do 1000, because I just can't routinely do 3000 lines/day and have a life.

The thing that has helped me most is limiting my time on-line and having my e-mail so that I can't see/hear when a new one comes up so I don't stop typing and check e-mail.

I routinely do 85+% ESL, but maybe once a month get a day where I have lots of normals and that spoils you.

I usually do 30 minutes in 45 minutes to an hour also but this is something completely different and it almost gets to the point you pull your hair out when you cannot hear what they are saying during this meeting or several talk at once, etc. So you cannot use this rule of thumb -- believe me I have been there many times.

Again I would guess between 8 to 12 hours and feel good if you get it done in 8.

I am thinking about changing over to QA but am wondering what the pay per line normally starts out at. Can anyone give me some help.

We use the payment plan so our bill is the same every month. They average all 12 months and come up with a month payment. Our winter bills usually would be as low as $70 if we weren't on the payment plan.