Uh, probably for the same reasons YOU stayed for 10 years? nm
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I stayed for many reasons and while those reasons have changed - sm
I loved MT because I was good at it and it came naturally to me. Typing, language, etc. The perks of working from home and being able to raise my family were a huge plus. I stayed because in the hayday of MT you could make really good money really fast (2500 lpd @ $0.15 cpl).
I stayed while my children were young and I could be available for them. I stayed so I could return to school and have that flexible schedule to juggle everything once the kids grew older. I stayed full-time and cut school back to half time so I could take care of my ailing parents and inlaws when the time arose.
I continue to stay because I still need to finish school (3 semesters to go) and unfortunately my DH is ill and needs someone to care for him now. I stay because it is convenient, but I do not plan to stay forever.
I sure miss the big money days, but what money I make now is sufficient enough to pay my bills. It is a means to an end so to speak and it has been a godsend along the way. But I in no way plan to stay at it forever. It served and continues to serve a purpose, but it is no longer what I "love" to do.
i stayed for 10 years...
Until I started experiencing the same problems that everyone complains about on this board... low work, no work, constant account switches, mysterious messages from corporate about new pay plans, etc., then I was out the door. I have more respect for myself than to put up with that! 
Stayed at Vistana time share resort and it was EXCELLENT 5-6 years ago.
I don't know what kind of prices you are going to get at the height of the season but phone Vistana and see what a weekly rate is. They do have shuttle service and lots of activities within the resort itself. There are lots of time shares that have been built since then so check into time share rental. Vistana had two bedrooms and sleeping room in the living area plus kitchen. Whirlpool bath in master. Tennis, swimming, etc. Great place to stay, highly recommend.
PS: I went in the late summer and price for a week was approximately $700.
Quit after 2 years. If I wanted to work 8 hours a day, I would have stayed in the hospital. Seemed
to be working all day long just to make a decent living. Although, I wanted to be home with my kids until the baby was at least 5, had to breakdown and return to working outside the home, to make ends meet. Just to stressfull trying to make a good living with the rates they are paying now.
After years of drinking diet drinks, I am off Nutrisweet, Splenda, etc. due to health reasons..sm
but I really don't want to drink sugar drinks/juices and cannot stand water! Does anyone have any drink suggestions? I am at a loss. TIA
Give professional reasons why you deserve it, not personal reasons
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Why I stayed
Because I believed the BS/lies/contradictions until I was literally choking on them. I don't have people like that around me.
Dano, you're right about a good MT having options. So keep that good advice coming and thank you! I was so into the psychological abuse, I lost sight of that fact.
I'm sure you've heard of the battered wife syndrome. It happens gradually, not overnight. Well...I guess there's such a thing as battered MT syndrome. Hopefully, this site will put an end to it.
I'm not a war monger. Just trying to help MTs make an informed decision based on the facts of what happened to me and not to be as stupid as I was to buy into all of it. I don't have an axe to grind either. She's the loser. She can do whatever she wants now. I don't work for her!
Here's something for everyone to chuckle about. The coordinator told me I was greedy. Not productive, not fast, not you know your stuff, not you work smart, but greedy! I'm LOL now, but I was speechless then. Don't any of you tell me that was her euphemism for productive. My production went into the toilet after that. That is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God. Have a great evening!
why, then, have you stayed for
Why would ANYONE with half a brain stay somewhere so terrible for 9 years?
Can you not find another job? What's the deal? I wanna know! 
There's no way I would have stayed...
After being treated like that. The first time I don't get paid on time, bye bye! The doctors don't work for free, and I don't either.
I improved on it after a while, but then stayed the same.
When I first started on VR I had a really hard time because we don't have an expander on our program. I was so accustomed to typing shortcuts that I typed them when I was editing and ended up having to edit my editing.  But I've been doing it for a few months now and got used to the program, and my line production picked up a little. I'll never be able to double or even get 60% to 70% above my usual typing rate though because I can produce a lot with typing (about 1600 lines a day). I haven't heard of anyone producing 3200 lines a day when 100% editing. It would be different if it was like QA editing and just filling in the blanks, but sometimes this takes longer to do this than it does to type it.
The fact that you have stayed with them
for so long amazes me. You must be a saint! Good luck to you. I hope you find what you are looking for.
I think I stayed with it too long, too. Unfortunately, (sm)
most other jobs don't really suit my personality. I like transription cuz I don't have to deal directly with people that much. I'm not much of a people-person. I would HATE a front-office job! I'm concerned that MT may be dying out (mainly due to greed & dishonesty in the industry, not to mention in the Healthcare industry). I looked into court-reporting, but I think it's too late for that. Shoulda' done it 30 years ago while I still lived for free with mom & dad, and could go to school full-time! Getting a degree at night school is brutal. I have a friend who started working on getting her Master's back in the late 1960's, while working full-time. She's still working on it, and still going to school. Still isn't there yet, and she'll be retirement age in 3 more years!
Nope, I stupidly allowed myself to get stuck in a dead-end profession, that now shows signs of passing on, itself. So I figure I'll just ride it out to the end, and after that, so on public assistance and live in a cardboard box on the sidewalk somewhere. Either that, or go on the "Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan". hee!
No, stayed at hotel right near it, though.
Most of the places in M. Beach offer a package deal such as the one you describe. We have stayed at Compass Cove and Caravelle and both offered family value packages that include the suite, buffet breakfast daily, and tickets to local attractions. We are going back to Compass Cove this year, in fact. Both Caravelle and Compass Cove also renovated over the last year. Have you checked sites like Travelocity? Sometimes they have customer reviews that can be very helpful. Are you taking children? If so, I would recommend Compass Cove or Caravelle, either one. However, Monterey looks like a very nice place from the outside, at least!
Hope you have fun! :) When are you planning to go? We usually go towards the end of August. Rates are even better then. ;)
Thanks, I've done that too, stayed
in motels that had internet service, in fact many of them don't charge, although recently I had to pay 10 bucks a day for it. I was just wondering about the Spring broadband card that you can put in your computer and use where there is Sprint service and if anybody has used it up and down the interstate system, not just in major cities.
yep, 2 different companies, stayed with 1 - sm
quit the other eventually they had gone from being pretty good to pretty bad and I was not able to meet production (the ESLs were really, really bad) and I "left" at mutual agreement; like the platform and all but rarely got good dictators. As for the other company, I quit due to being stretched too thin, then went back to them when things did not work out with my "new" job (had 3 at the time). Always leaving on good terms helps, work notice, etc. then approach and asked if you can come back as things are not working out for you and you liked working for them, etc. Good luck.
I recently stayed at the Flamingo (sm)
it was very nice - they have a beautiful pool area, really tropical. In fact, there was a wedding there when we were there and I noticed how nice it was. If you sign up for their "card" they will give you a better rate.
Just stayed at Drury, they allow pets.
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also use a KVM switch but stayed wired
for security reasons, and ..
I don't want kids to have internet their rooms. Mean mama that I am. LOL
:P
Maybe you are just uptight about one night stands? You should have stayed to the end.
nm
I wore a Spanish mantilla - it stayed out of the way and was still fun.
She has to be the dumbest person alive to have stayed
married to an alcoholic and drug user, and to have had children by him. She endangered the lives of those children. She is blind, says she never sees anything bad that the press reports. Maybe that is because they are sheltered and protected from any protesters so they can continue to think they are the king and queen of the world.
We stayed at the CalNeva at Stateline last month
and there was no way I could have worked - had my laptop and wondered if I should try to set up but gave up. They must have had dial-up but electrical outlets were pathetic, lighting was horrible and noise from room beside us was horrible and room above us was horrible - I finally realize it was a 'fun' hotel and not a travelers hotel - and not one that was set up for business people. Glad you had great experience though!! Oh - and only 10 channels on the television - they obviously wanted everyone down stairs in the casino spending money!!
Atkins Diet - Has anyone stayed on this program for the long run?
I've tried it a couple of times, did well, lost weight, but never really got going with the maintenance program. Has anyone done so? If so, I would appreciate any advice, hints, etc. Thanks!!
Had pay cut in half, stayed because of "Loyalty", big mistake. Pay went up 1/2 c, still waitin
:P
Maybe she should have stayed in America where Americans look for drunken teens everyday.
If you go to a foreign country, you are under their laws and their policing. If you don't like it, DON'T TRAVEL OUT OF THE COUNTRY! In the meantime, TEXAS TEAM IS SEARCHING IN ARUBA WITH PERMISSION AND ARE VERY HAPPY WITH COOPERATION FROM ARUBAN GOVERNMENT!
Great city; I stayed in Dunlaoghaire (sp?) and visited Dublin. nm
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just try to help him be sure its for the right reasons
You have to let kids this age make some decisions, even wrong ones, and live with the consequences. But i would just try to get the dialog going, find out why it isn't 'fun'...personally, i feel if the desire is gone -- he won't play well anyway. Ultimately, his is one decision i'd let him have.
Many many many reasons
Too many to type...just believe me...
My 2 reasons...
I love my husband because: 
1. He's thougtful...calls or emails me several times a day.
2. After almost 20 years together, he still gives me chills when he walks in the door after work.
There are so many more reasons why, but you said 2...
my reasons
1. He knows me better than anyone else on the planet after knowing me for 27 years and being married for 23 and SILL loves and accepts me! :-)
2. I always feel that "everything will work out" if he tells me so.
there are many reasons - sm
I know of two hospitals that had decided to completely outsource their transcription to a well known large national service. Their reason was that they could not find transcriptionists in their area. Two years later, both hospitals let the service go and decided to go back with in house transcription. There were many reasons behind that decision.
I have a friend that works at a hospital in the midwest and says that the outsource service is costing the hospital more than if they had kept their staff. She had said that her hospital is in the process of hiring people to come back to work either at the hospital or, hopefully, at home.
The hospital I worked at could not find transcriptionists in the area, so they decided to outsource as well. Our boss didn't make it a secret that the service was charging them $45,000 MONTH. That was more than if our whole staff was working 10 hours of overtime a week/per transcriptionist. So our boss is looking into hiring transcriptionists that live within a 2 hour driving radius to work from home after a week of training in our hospital and paying for them to stay in a hotel.
Sometimes it is not cost effective to outsource. Sometimes the service is really bad and the hospital does not want to continue to pay for the errors. There could be other reasons, but those are ones that I can think of off the top of my head.
Which, among other reasons, is why I would -
;)
My reasons...
Well, Pattie, I have been doing this for 25 years. I am 50 years old. I am good at it. I want to work at home. I am reluctant to leave my chosen field at this stage in my life.
I could not have predicted, when I obtained my MT training, that this field would take such a nosedive in pay. Obviously I would have chosen another field had I known.
As you get older, you are more reluctant to train in a new field.
My reasons...
for stick with MT and even coming back after a couple of absences:
1. I love the work. It satisfies my need to be in the medical field (quit nursing school way back when - bonehead move on my part!) without having to go back to school or actually deal with people too much.
2. My husband is disabled and my boys are teenagers. If I worked outside the home in another field, I'd be spending everything I made on paying someone to take care of things at home.
3. I really like the company I'm with. Been with 'em now for about 4 years and have loved nearly every minute of it.
4. I'm too old (44) and set in my ways to retrain in a new field and get used to dealing with office politics again.
5. The money that maybe I'm NOT making, I'm also not spending on gas, clothes, lunches, etc. that are part of working outside the home.
6. Did I already say I love the field? 
Well, 2 reasons. 3 really.
1) That seemed to be what everyone was hiring for.
2) I hoped to make more money that way.
3) After being an MT for 14+ years, I had a lot of confidence in my abilities as a transcriptionist. Honestly, I didn't realize how much I didn't know. I feel like a dang newb again 
Several reasons ... sm
1) May be checking to see if you have previous employment history with them under different name.
2) May be doing some type of credit/background check.
reasons
You know I will definitely pass these along. Some people just think you are being racist because you state the obvious and because you show such bitterness towards these people. Look at what they cost our country. Do you know how much crime these people bring here? The diseases? Do some research. They don't have proper vaccines over there. I mean think about it these are poor 3rd word people from an uncililized culture apparently. How can 3rd world culture merge into 1st world culture smoothly. It can't and it won't. They will never smoothly transition to the American culture because they do not want to.
And people can say well what about all the European immigrants many years ago? Well guess what? They wanted to be American so bad that they learned the English language and worked hard. They wanted to be AMERICAN. They did not expect Americans to transition for them they were willing to transition to our culture. These uncivilized vultures basically come here and they come here for one reason only: money and all they can get for nothing. They come here to work but they also abuse our social services to the utmost degree. I have seen on news programs where they will come over here and fly their Mexican flags. And you know how they fly the American flag? Upside down. Oh yes I have seen it on TV. I have seen them trying to burn the American flag. I don't care if it cost a trillion dollars this country needs to send every one of these people back to Mexico. Our country would be a whole lot better for it. We don't need this filth and crime in our nation. We are better than that. I am sorry if this offends some poeple but it is so true and sometimes the truth just hurts. That is what is wrong with our country today. Poeple tiptoe around the truth. Lets dont offend anyone! Well hey I say state the obvious. Tell it like it is.
Reasons
I answered your question above where you posted it as well. I must have misunderstood your post, as it seemed that you were challenging me. But, I was just trying to say that I don't want to debate the fact as to whether or not the queue is shuffled, cause I see it happen. I don't know their reasons, but this new shuffling maneuver only happens on one account that I work on there, and it just began about 5 weeks ago. It is really difficult for me to get a decent line count now, as all of the reports that I get are laborious since the reports that I find to be easiest are always being shuffled to the bottom of the pool. I understand that it is not a prison and that my only option is to get out the kitchen if I can't stand the heat.
I would think that those reasons
are given as opposed to unexplained weight loss, disease process, etc.
Three reasons...
1. It's good for a company to provide upward pathways for their people.
2. Some accounts can be very complex and require the QA to have prior experience with different special worktypes and/or exposure to certain dictators, etc.
3. There are many things you learn about an MT over the course of their employment that you will never learn from interviewing and even testing a new applicant, however experienced they may be. Unfortunately, our litigious society has rendered reference-checking practically useless, and you will never be able to test any applicant across the full range of dictation that you see coming in from your MT's every day.
There could be several reasons.
1. A lot of companies are hiring and do overhire to get their backlog down. Once their backlog is caught up, they weed out. They don't have to let people go, they can manipulate their queue until they quit. And please don't say this isn't true because one of my ex-friends who was a production manager actually told me this.
2. Benefits are based on production. If management can hire a lot of people, they can produce a lot for their clients, they still get the same bottom dollar. Yet, if the queues or servers are controlled, they can avoid overhead on benefits if production quotas are not met.
3. Why pay domestic employees 7 or 8 cpl when they can pay offshore MTs 3 or 4 cpl? They still have the same amount of production and still make the bottom dollar, yet they can control where the reports are going and who is getting them.
It all comes down to bottom dollar to management and owners. They can control whatever and whomever to achieve their goals. Not all companies are like this, but it is becoming more and more common.
Not working out for a lot of reasons...
The platform they have me on is not user-friendly at all.
It seems simple enough. You have to enter the job # and date, and then press enter to get the template to download with the patient's name, etc.
But if the doc hasn't entered the patient ID correctly, you'll have to look it up.
This can take a minute or several minutes, depending on if the patient exists in the system, among other things.
You'll come out ok if the note is long, but they average about 30 seconds.
Also, the doc may not have entered the correct clinic note ID, or the correct dictator ID, so that's another story.
If all goes well, you'll download a template. If there's something typed in the template, you don't get paid for it...but, if the doc makes changes (which of course they do), you have to delete.
I know what I'm capable of doing, but for some reason, I just can't make any lines working for Spheris.
I gave it a shot, but I'm ready to move on...maybe even change careers.
First, be very sure of the reasons that you want to homeschool.
It is tougher beginning at such a late grade, but it can be done. I started my son in 9th grade 9 years ago, so obviously I know a little bit about it. I also had a great friend who homeschooled her high school kids, so she could get me started with a lot of support and encouragement. Be sure you're ready to be with this child 24/7, because that's pretty much how it will feel. We did have problems with the school but tried every avenue to solve them before saying, "We don't need to put up with this, we do have a choice," when the school counselor said that we didn't have a choice. They thought they ruled my son's world; they were WRONG. I AM HIS PARENT, I believe I do have his best interests in mind when making choices for him. We are a Christian family, so it was easy to start by investigating Abeka Books for materials; bear in mind you'll have to buy all your own materials, nobody helps with that. My son now has his degree and is IT manager at a bank, looking to make VP.
You'll need to check out the homeschooling laws for your state, they vary. Just do an internet search for homeschooling laws for your state. Check around for homeschool groups, there are several out there. But, the biggest thing is just to make sure that you and your child are committed to working together to do this. It does take a lot of commitment and communication to do this and do it right. BEST of luck to you whatever your choice.
So, PFFFT to the person who says kids need to be in school. I know better and obvious hundreds or thousands of others do too.
Those are the reasons I do shop SM
at Target. I have a huge problem with the Salvation Army's practices (be our religion, go to OUR church, adhere to OUR values, or stay cold), I think our government ought to be the ones supporting the military since they sent them where they are, and as for supporting gay and lesbian rights, I think that is a good thing. I'm not sure exactly how you phrased that.
QA can be very tedious for these reasons:
1. You get all the garbage someone else either could not or did not take the time to hear and understand.
2. You often have to fix all kinds of little errors that the MT had no idea they even missed.
3. If you also have to provide feedback, then you will type your fingers to the bone.
I decided after 5 years to go back to being just an MT! :-)
I like your idea for 2 reasons
The MT knows what they need to be taught.. and it would give MTs losing jobs to outsourcing something to do! Great idea!
2 other reasons i've seen are
using the transcription area of the hospital for other things and not having to pay benefits.
There could be any of a number of reasons.
Some physicians have a God complex and freak at the slightest mistake. I have seen that happen many times even if it was something the MT could not control. You should have been given better instructions regarding format, but the powers that be may not have realized you were not. If the physician freaked, the office staff was not going to admit that they did not do their part.
I agree it's one of the reasons
I do this work...hard to get the work done with a baby or preschooler in the house but great once they go to school...no latchkey kid problem. Now if I only had a separate room for my own office...
What are the reasons you want to do MTing?
NM
No, for all the reasons you mentioned.
for those same reasons, i refuse to be a member, though i too was originally. AKA AAMT is like congress today, self-serving, not representing "the people."
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