Time, Vegetarian Times, Creative Knitting, Money, Today's Nutrition. nm
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CMT is a waste of money & time. Times are different in the MT
industry anymore and having a CMT doesn't make a hill of beans difference. Companies are going to pay what they want to pay. Having a CMT isn't going to get you anymore money. That's a fallacy. There was a time when having a CMT would have gotten you a little better pay but those days are LONG gone. Save your money because that's all AAMT wants. AAMT are big corporation suckups, offshore suckups, and will suckup to anyone or any company that has BIG BUCKS! AAMT care NOT about the American MT, which became crystal clear with the announcement of their upcoming name change.
Need ideas for vegetarian snacks for New Year's Eve. Having a guest over who is vegetarian.
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NY Times today had an article...sm
NY TIMES today stating that not only is Dell's tech dept over in India but they are now opening up manufacturing plants in India to make Dell computers there.
See article in its entirety over at the offshoring concerns forum here....at mtstars.
Been a DELL diehard for 7 years and also an HP printer diehard person for 11 years. 
I agree. In today's times, not just with this business,
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The CMT exam is overrated. Don't waste your time & money. Use that money on
paid anymore just because you have it. There are a few CMT cheerleaders that post to people like you but they are pretty well sucked up into that association.
Any money is good today sm
Take what you can to make ends meet and then switch when a better offer comes along, just don't burn bridges. Watch Jim Cramer, he says work at the Dollar Store if you can. I believe this will pass myself, just hang in there!
I watched it both times and couldn't believe it either time.
I really doubt they let them do actual work. It was probably practice stuff and just made them do X number of minutes of dictation or x number of hours and they just had to muddle through and type whatever they thought it was. I saw a few lines of what the husband typed and it made no sense from what I saw, so I think they just had to put in the time and guess, just to get a feel for what she does.
Sorry even if you are slow, 200 to 400 times per hour - no time -- NM
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Sorry, don't have time. Gotta go run around the house a couple of times. nm
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I personally will NOT spend too much time looking for a word. I listen 3-5 times if I still don'
it goes to the QA. I am getting paid 5-8cpl, depending upon the account, as an IC and don't have the time to spend too long looking. If I can't find something in 15 minutes I'm done. If I got paid more I might take more time to look, but at these line rates no WAY!
I also get no feedback from QA, or very rarely. We have one QA who is rude and puts down the MTs at every turn. It isn't easy for the MT either. If you aren't even listening to the dictation how do you even know WHY the MT didn't get the word, maybe the doctor is a total mush mouth and our ears are bleeding by the time we got to that word.
she needs to be a little more creative
All she does is change her name, but she spouts the same nonsense over and over. Tired of it myself.
Today was the only time that
DocQscribe went down like that, so get over it. It was a pain, yes, but it is up and running now. Name one other time that this has happened. If it takes you 5 hours to do your nails, then you must have some pretty nasty, funky thick nails.
I am partial to Creative... sm
I am a few years outdated, bought mine in 2002, but mine is still well supported and I like it :-) I paid a lot because I am very picky as to my sound quality, my whole music collection is on this thing. Think I paid about $100, though that may be the going rate anymore; I really don't know.
Creative is still pretty common, I think. That would be my vote, or go over to a review site like maybe CNet or something.
I would agree; I think most are on the motherboard at this point. I have a Gateway PC that I bought in 2005, and it's built in. I am not certain that going into system will tell you where something physically is per se. I only found out by opening up the computer.
CNet often has video tutorials too, so that may help you.
As for disabling a sound card that's on the motherboard, you're going to need to locate the jumpers and change their settings prior to installing a new card. I didn't change the jumpers before installing mine, and literally my PC wouldn't even turn on until I did that! Acted shorted out or something. Are you familiar with jumpers?
Feel free to email me privately and I can try to walk you thru it. I'll be your geek friend LOL!
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There are ways, if one is *creative*, to
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If you would take the time you have spent here today
and work on building your expander, macros, etc. you could get your line count up faster. Don't know if you have a line per day committment or hourly committment, but if you have lines you can get them finished quicker with a better expander and have more time to play or do whatever. I am NOT a morning person, but I feel so much better when I do make myself get up and then by 9:00 I've made my line committment and I've got the rest of the day to do what I want/need to do and if I need more lines I can work an hour or two after dinner. I almost feel like I have a 3-day weekend because I'm finished so early that on Friday I'm done early, my DH has an early day at work and is home by 10 usually so we have an almost full day to play.
Reassess your situation. What were your reasons for coming home to work? If you didn't have to work at all, would you spend all day sitting in front of the TV watching all that mindless garbage and letting the housework go? Maybe you're burned out or depressed. Maybe you just lack self-discipline as somewhat else suggested and you really need structure.
Just some things to think about. Working at home isn't the fairly tale that most people think it is.
Needed this big-time today...thank you! :)
Beading and knitting are popular
right now. I've been doing both separately and in combination for longer than I care to admit but they are *in* again. Glass mosaics and polymer clay are another couple of things I've been dabbling in for a while. There are just so many options, it's hard to suggest just 1 thing. Maybe you could take her on a *date* to some of the craft stores like Joanne Fabrics or Michael's and see what she seems interested in. If she finds the right hobby to suit her personality and talent, I predict she will be totally addicted (like so many of us) so watch out! Then again, she is lucky she has you to enable her. LOL Good luck!
As a whole, creative souls are usually loopy
as a rule. They see the world in a different view, which is why they are oftentimes so successful in their creative arena.
I think she is just a highly emotional individual. Nothing wrong with a few tears, it is good for reviews!
Yes time is money. So is sm
only paying even a newbie a low wage and expecting work that equals experience. Cut me a break. Smearing someone's name is childish and immature. I have walked in many shoes. I have wasted my time on many a small MTSO's only to find they pay low and aren't worth a darn. I have my own accounts thank goodness. I don't need to train others to do the work I should be doing myself. Let's not kid what this OP really wants, which is to be lazy and call it giving someone a chance. She should be doing her own work and leave the newbies alone if she is SO FRUSTRATED or pay an experienced MT what their worth!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
time and money
I was just wondering how many hours a week would it take an average Transcriptionist to type 5000 lines? When you were new, how many weeks did it take you to get up to that speed. Thanks.
Try knitting or crochet, something to keep your hands busy, or get
fat-free/sugar-free hard candies to suck on. The walking is a great idea and I know it is hard to get started. Try to find a friend or neighbor you can walk with the neighborhood with after the kids have left for school or at night after dinner. Once you start losing weight, you get some fresh air, and are just more relaxed you'll want to walk and it won't be a chore. / / / congrats on stopping smoking.
I just knitted a sweater & am knitting socks - still fat ,
I've been knitting about a year. Keep buying
yarn, not enough time to knit. I'm trying to learn to crochet too. Doesn't look as nice as knitting usually, but I do lots of charity work and it goes much faster than knitting, easier to fix mistakes too.
If you are creative make a picture-sized thank you
with random pix of mama and babies and even your family ...or just one pix off all then decorate and embellish around the pix as you want.... with water paints (experiment and practice to get it right) you can put actual paw prints of mama and all the puppies in different colors. A colorful 'thank you...you made our life possible" or something. It would be awesome in a frame w/glass. Have fun!
Well, collectively it probably took 20 minutes of my time to post today.
My kids are out and about. I did all my work. I'm a good girl, you see! I don't really get your perceived "jab" at me at all. Why do you think that because I am in favor of someone being an MT and keeping their precious baby at home as opposed to in day care, that somehow that means I say I spend every minute of my life focused on my kids? I really think when you respond like this, its because you are not confident in your own life - I won't delve deeper, but you feel guilty. Guilty enough to have to make fun of me and put imaginary words in my mouth. I never said a whisper or innuendo that MT mothers with kids at home have to focus every second of their lives on their kids. That's ridiculous! We all know that! And I assume you're the same poster above about camp? You use the same SM. I am sorry to disappoint you that I don't understand your "revelation" about my identity! I never said a word here about camp, and don't follow that thought at all. The OP asked if she could do it - be an MT and have a baby at home. I recognize another poster from below, childfree by choice. She and I have had some wonderful debates in the past, and I think we usually agree to disagree! But certainly nice meeting you, I think??
Not worth the time or money
unless you are into titles
In this business time is ALWAYS money.
I wouldn't work under those conditions. Not every company is like the one you described.
Why not use the time and money on something that's going to have more potential than this?
Anything less is a colossal waste of time and money!
Just seems like a big-time waste of money
to buy a keyboard just because a letter is worn off.
Don't waste your money or your time. sm
I was a CMT for 15 years. It never did a bit of good money wise. Like another poster said, there use to be bonuses for production with some companies (large bonuses) and they never had anything to do with CMT.
You will be spending more money than you want to as well as having to get CECs all the time. AHDI doesn't care about American MTs. This test (in my opinion) is just like the "almighty" BOS, just something else to get the MTs money that will never do the MT any good but keep funding AHDI.
AAMT/AHDI or whoever they are has been saying for years it will be mandatory to be a CMT some day. That is baloney. Any decent employer will go by your experience and what you can show them you can do and not by any stupid CMT certificate.
I wouldn't think a second thought about it if I were you. Its not worth the paper its printed on.
Anyone else working today? Am I the only lowly sole with nothing to do until dinner time?
I feel like I am the only on working today, as the Boscov's parade is on TV, my two teens are sleeping, my husband is working OT and here I am working also. Gotta cover my account today, at least until this afternoon, when I have to cook for my little family.
Just wanted to see if anyone else is out there today!
is not giving her time/money away cheap, why
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Glad to hear that my adult knitting friends and I are "trashy."
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I am not feeling well today so pardon if I am making mistakes. I just think that it is time to stop
defending the illegal activities of this company. I know I defended them for many years.
I thought there was one to cook in crockpot. Don't have time to do the stove thing today but than
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Fill in the blank time! Today I feel ______ (for me it's good)...sm
Good work day so far, kids will be home from school in a couple of hours and the weather is nice outside.
I would be 43 and have no life at this time and wish I was making decent money, but not ;0( ...NM
NM
Waste of time and hard-earned money
when you can only make may be 1 cpl more if you are a CMT. They should not charge you, they should just let you take the test and send you the certificate.
Nope. Huge waste of time and money.
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Two jobs don't equal one when it comes to making money and not wasting time. sm
Recommend looking for one good job.
vegetarian idea
If you use eggs, a wonderful egg foo yung can be made with all that zucchini in your garden. Just shred, drain, toss in a little cornstarch and soy sauce = add some beaten eggs and fry in patties. Make a quick gravy using chicken base, water and soy sauce thickened with a little cornstarch. Serve patties over rice with a little gravy. My family loves this and we are not even vegetarians!
first was no meat, then vegetarian, now trying vegan...
although, I am not obsessive about it all...
no animal has to suffer for me.
I do have to cook meat for my boyfriend, but as I said I am not a fanatic. I try to buy local meat and use chickens (and eggs) that are not from electric cages, or that have not been fed steroids, antibiotics, etc.
Vegan versus vegetarian
Someone told me that vegans do not eat any animal products including eggs or dairy but that vegetarians will. Who knows.
Ideas for vegetarian snacks
Bean dips. Paul Newman has them in jars, usually in the salsa section. Also, guacamole, and have nuts available. Cheeses, of course, if they eat dairy.
Bruschetta, one variation of which is thinly sliced tomato on slice of garlic bread, topped with sprinkle of basil and thin mozzarella. Broil til cheese melts and heated through..
Hummus, a garbanzo bean spread, you can usually buy at the deli counter. With crackers or small slices of bread.
He's a runner and a vegetarian and he looks just fine to me! :) nm
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I'm a vegetarian so not buying meat saves,
but also, the more *fixed* food is, the more expensive it is - for example, if I want soup, I buy the ingredients and make it myself, plus it tastes better and isn't loaded with garbage I don't need like salt and fat.
I don't buy extras - candles have been out for a long time - I have a few in case of power failure, but nothing fancy. I don't have a cell phone, or anything other than basic TV. I buy clothes at thrift stores (which is actually a lot of fun), and I never hang out at malls - impulse buying is out.
Get an extra plastic bottle and pour half your shampoo into it, then fill with water. Most people use way too much shampoo, conditioner, etc - dilute w/water - does the same job and lasts way longer.
If you will search around the web with Google, you can come up with hundreds of ways to save money - most of us buy stuff we don't need simply because we are lazy or we think our every desire needs to be gratified.
It's mostly just excess baggage; it is amazing how good it feels to not need *stuff* to feel good.
the potpourri idea is fabulous!!, plus don't forget the wonderful scent of herbs you can grow yourself to mix with the cinnamon, etc.
Good luck and have fun!
I'd be a great vegetarian but I hate vegetables!
The thought of eating meat is awful, but it's the only thing I like so I have to unless I want to live on Cheerios and ice cream sandwiches.
Money, money, money, mmonnneyyy. Singing the Apprentice song.
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Vegetarian chili from the freezer, salad, garlic bagel chips. nm
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Daughter is vegetarian. I cook a turkey and she hits the side dishes. (sm)
We do pretty well with this. I just make sure I have some of her favorites so she still feels like she is having a feast.
I saw a picture someone made of a "turkey" they had formed out of raw veggies. I think the basic form was one of those rounded shaped loaves of bread and the veggies were on toothpicks. the head and some tail feathers were made from construction paper. It seemed like an entertaining idea especially if you had small children around.
The girl was 13, the rapist a distant relative they took in. Give money, give food and your time, b
you don't put your family at risk by taking in strangers. That's just plain foolish. There were over 3300 registered sex offenders in NO. Where are they now. In your community? Perhaps in your house? Good luck.
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