Triple Ditto, nm

• What is your favorite keyboard? I need a new one. NM - Susan
  • A4tech anti-RSI model KB(s)-8 - quick typing fingers
    • I'm with you - sm
  • favorite keyboard over the holidays is called "no keyboard" - cookie
  • Love my Goldtouch -- can spread it apart and tent it up however you like. nm - LTMT
  • Keyboards - sm - MT
    • Funny you should mention Keytronic, I've been using that for years. SM - Susan
  • MIcrosoft Natural Ergonomic - ml
    • Triple Ditto, nm - ks
    • double ditto! - missyMT
    • Ditto. - MSMT
      • Thanks to all who responded. I will look into these keyboards. nm - Susan

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I really do find some of it interesting, and I like to feel like I am contributing to the overall care of the patient. I have a couple of decent accounts I consistently work on, and I really cannot complain at all about them.  The people I deal with at my company are nice too. 

 I was a SAHM for 7 years before doing this and I really like working again.  The kids are still young (7,almost 4, almost 3) and it is nice to be able to flex my schedule a bit if one is home sick from daycare/school and also to attend all of those class parties blah blah blah without begging permission to work through lunch or stay late to do so. 

I don't like doing the same thing for 40 hours per week though.  I have a hard time sitting that long.  I didn't think I cared for people very much as far as dealing with them all day long as part of work, but now I do realize I would like to be around people for at least part of my job.  I am thinking about doing some volunteer work at hospice or something just to give me some variety and feel like I am touching someone's life directly. 

I love using my education to do this job though!  DH helped me pay off my student loans from college and I had been getting sick of hearing about the lousy return on investment.  I also love that I am getting paid to know the information I loved to learn.

Not long ago, in  one of my nursing (psychiatric) journals, the editorial contained the phrase "to the manner born"....and I have seen it elsewhere.  Yikes!

Also my flesh crawls when I hear "orientated" but I see that has been incorporated as an alternative spelling per my Random House dictionary.

I find myself struggling not to correct grammar or syntax in conversation.  My daughter calls me a word-snot.

Which brings me to hyphens.  Do I have the correct understanding when I use a hyphen with, for, example, washed-up career, (i.e. the washed modifies career, foul ) but incorrectly when (and there seems to me to be an overuse of hyphens) if I write foul-smelling socks...because the foul modifies smelling per se?

And how about the frequent "I am anxious to attend the Rolling Stones concert" rather than the "I am eager to attend the Rolling......"

Thanks for your input.

Alexa in Washington State

The average middle class American worker is always the one who gets screwed!   It irritates the he** out of me that our government already freely gives handouts to freeloaders who are too sorry to work , and don't even deserve to be called a citizen of this country, and on top of that, illegal aliens break our laws to come here - but they're not punished for breaking our laws - yet they expect "free" medical care, "free" government benefits, "free" government write-offs - for the most part at the expense of the middle class.  Very ironic that so many people come here for our way of life - we do more for them than their own country - yet many of them hate America and what it stands for, and would not hesitate to spit on us and our flag, and some of these idiots in politics just let them do it.   Personally I think it's a collaborative effort to bleed the coffers dry, but what do I know,  I'm just a working stiff.   When is somebody in Washington going to speak up for us?

I ditto the comments that have come before mine.  Your company is spoiling the client while spoiling your health!!  Obviously, it is your company that has set up this paging system, and they should be the ones to fix it.  They are definitely treating you with disrespect, which should not be tolerated.  It is bad enough that they arranged for you to be on-call all night, but even more unacceptable is that they didn't allow you to have time off today to recuperate from a stressful night. 

There are other companies out there that do not wake you up to do reports.  My current company has STAT reports all the time, but I don't see them unless I am logged in and working.  Whatever the situation with your company, be it that there is no graveyard shift, or the entire graveyard shift is off sick or whatever, it should not be your job to step in and pamper the client at the expense of your own health, as chances are that the STAT report wasn't such an emergency after all!!