Venting vs permanently negative
Posted By: sky on 2008-10-26
In Reply to: I didn't get that at all - Dee
Sure, sometimes we just want to vent. We get it off our chest, get a little validation, then we feel better.
But some folks just don't get over it. There's plenty of them at on-site jobs as well. Complaining becomes a way of life. We've all met them, they search diligently for what's wrong with any and every situation. They are full of dire predictions when anyone else is happy, when anything changes, when they get out of bed in the morning.
On this board, I've seen many people unable to let go once they get it off their chest. They make sure to bash a company they worked for a few years back every time its name comes up. If anyone tries to give them a suggestion to improve a problem, they shoot it down in the nastiest way. These people claim to have tried "everything" and sneer at anyone who keeps trying, and they never admit they are venting for venting's sake.
I think the point the OP was making is valid, because there are many chronic complainers here. They are very unhappy in general, and they refuse to be proactive and try to change all the wrongs they see. Its hard to give them any sympathy when all they want to do is argue and be very hateful to anyone that doesn't agree that everything is awful and nothing can be done about it.
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It's no wonder so many of them are permanently closing. (sm)
In some cities, what used to be a 5-minute ambulance ride (with a REAL problem, not a splinter) has turned into a half-hour search for a hospital that still has one.
Are you with a company? Their software might have something permanently set in
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Ugh! Negative, negative experience!!
I had an injury this past year that necessitated me purchasing Dragon Professional. Total cost approximately $1000 by the time I purchased the "good" microphone from Knowbrainer. I'm thankful everyday I had the option of using Dragon to get me through my injury but I hope to God that I never have to use it again as it drove me nuts and my production was so low. I averaged four hours a day more in my chair than usual, but were it not for Dragon, I'd have lost all my clients. The program is "iffy" from day to day in its ability to be "accurate." I trained the h out of it but still had problem after problem. If I had to do it over again and use Dragon for a short period of time, I would, but I can't imagine using it long term. Just my experience.
You and your kids need to get out, permanently, BEFORE he gets physical from the drinking. nm
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Just my opinion, but if you are permanently disabled, you are not able to work, right? I don't t
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In WP, anyone know how to permanently change 'View' in the search
window so it always shows a list and not thumbnails? Maybe this is a system-wide thing? Thanks.
So, no way to change it permanently? I knew about clicking on FORMAT, sm
but wanted a way to change it so I didn't have to do that every time I go into Escription. Thanks though. 
venting
You are right in the way you feel. It hurts. I know, it happened with my mom. There was no real money, but it was more in the way she treats me and my child versus my other sisters and their children. I have to take care of her needs because they refuse, but she always seems to lean toward them when wanting to give them something or do something for someone. I finally broke down and told her exactly how I felt and what I thought. Although it didn't change anything, I have limited my contact with her. It made me feel better to let her know how wrong she was.
Venting
Things like this happen because companies/people do not have to be accountable for their actions anymore. I wonder how these big companies would feel if it were the employer who made decisions like that (put the shoe on the other foot, so to speak)?
I am with you on this--those people who will be displaced (to include you and your family) are going to have a struggle when it comes to finding other employment.
Doesn't make much sense to me anymore...
Venting
I am originally from the midwest and on February 14 Electrolux announces it is laying off 700 people over the next 2 years in a community of about 9000 in Webster City, Iowa!!! Ouch!!! Not only that the company is building a new plant in Mexico (imagine that). The supposed reason is the plant is not big enough to meet demand. Ha!! Then why not build a new plant there??? This country is going to be so sorry some day. We are moving our companies to Mexico and Mexico wants to live here. I wonder when the US workers will lower their paychecks, etc. to keep their jobs.
VENTING
I'm glad you are so very eager. That is a wonderful attitude. This is a wonderful profession, but like all professions there are bad and good companies. Unfortunately, the MT world is in the center of a debate now with offshoring and cutting costs, which puts more pressure on the American MT. Fortunately, I work at home for a hospital, good money, good benefits, great grreat job. I wish all MTs had a job like mine. I understand completely how the MTs feel who are venting. That is what this forum is for. But, at the same time, you have made a good career choice.
RE: Venting about
By any chance would the doctor have to report this as an incident to children's services?
Have you given your son a broad-spectrum antibiotic as a prophylaxis? A lot of junk can form in there as it is warm and moist, just the living quarters a bug would love to call home
Good luck! Sounds like you did the correct thing by kicking his lazzy butt out of the house!
Venting, venting, venting...
I have had this same ESL female for the last 90 minutes. She obviously doesn't want to disturb anyone because she is talking so quietly. I have the ear pieces of my head set shoved so hard in my ears they almost meet in the middle, which also means I can hear her clicking her hard candy against her teeth really well.
Okay, venting over! Have a good one!  
Venting
I need to vent !!!!! I am currently a full time student, work a full time job, and I am pregnant. Why do people say stuff behind your back and go to your manager!!! Why can't people in today's world just say things to your face !!!! You see I work a customer service job at an airport and I wait on people all day and if someone does not like you than they try to get you fired or a customer does not like you then they try to get you fired. I am ready to dig a hole and stay in it and stop working !!!! IF ONLY I COULD AFFORD IT !!!!
Does anyone ever wonder why we even get out of bed in the morning and why we even try to get along with all of the back stabbers in this world !!!!!!!!!
Hopefully my MT career will be a better experience !!!!
Just venting!!!
I am bored!! I have a line count to make today and there are NO jobs available to do!! Days like today make me wonder what I am doing!!! Thanks for letting me blow off some steam!
venting
I sure can sympathize with you !!!! Been there, done that. I don't know why medical transcription companies/hospitals allow these dictators to get away with it. Been putting up with this for 20 years, and it never seems to get any better !!!!
just venting
This doctor I transcribe for almost always dictates the patient's age incorrectly. In fact, in the subjective she will dictate one age and in the plan she will dictate a year or two difference than what she dictated in the subjective. Thankfully I have the DOBs on the patient list, so I can figure out the true age, but, in my opinion, I don't think I should have to calculate the age. Don't you think the office staff should do that for me and write it on the list beside the patient's name? Mind you, I'm not lazy, I just don't feel like that is my responsibility. I do it, however, because I want the report to be accurate, and it should be accurate. Just wondering how you all feel about this. Of course, I'll keep doing what I need to do. Like I said, just venting.
What a day--NOT-venting
Why do doctors, NPs, PAs, etc. decide to dictate without being prepared? I did a 14 minute report with 7 minutes of dead space while the dictator looked through the records to decide what they wanted to say.
This isn't the first time it has happened. Last week, EVERY dictator did it. Of course, the reports weren't 14 minutes long, more like 5-7 minutes, but it gets frustrating.
Do they just pick up a report and sign on the line? Why can't they look at the reports FIRST, then sign on? 
I don't mind if they have a 30 second (yeah,right) pause to chose the right word, but holy bananas, sometimes it just drags on and on. Then there are the doctors that answer phone calls, doctors who talk to the nurses, PAs who can't find a report that they need for lab data or vital signs, and on and on and on.
I think part of their training should be a chapter on HOW TO DICTATE.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Just Venting
An emergency room physician assistant repeatedly dictates "thenar emesis." 
Venting a little.
Surely, we all get those dictators who have clear voices but are halting and hesitant, change their minds frequently in the body of the report without TELLING us they want the text changed; sometimes it's obvious/sometimes it's questionable as to what they mean/want. I've been running across this a lot today and it's really very trying!  Thanks for listening to me vent.
Venting
I definitely understand.
The only thing I can suggest it talk to your supervisor or MTSO.
Technology sometimes works against us. We have one MT who is forced to use dial-up in her area and we accomodate that by getting her work offloaded to an FTP for download rather than her calling into the system. There might be something your service can do.
Communication is vital.
Best of luck to you.
Just venting about TAT....
If these hospitals are so picky about turnaround time...These docs come in on Saturday night and dictate 50 charts from the last 6 months that they haven't done, every report is 15-20 minutes long, and by cracky, they had better be typed and on the chart within 48 hours, or the transcription company gets a fine.
OK. I feel better now.
RE: Venting
AMEN
QA Venting
I've been transcribing for almost 20 years. There isn't a medical specialty,ESL accent or work type I haven't done. If I could stand the sight of blood, I could probably do the diagnoses and surgeries myself!
I believe that a lot of these MT's are fresh out of school, or nowadays just finished their on-line, home study course! I think that because some of these dummies at the transcription companies see that they have passed the CMT exam, so they must know it all, but over the years I have had to QA the QA's work many times.
Now, I am by no means perfect, I have made my share of mistakes and have tried to learn from them. I have also come across some wonderful QA people that have taught me a lot, but for the most part it's the other way around!
Nope, I never got my CMT, but have no doubt I would pass it without any problems. I have also never bought the AAMT Book of Style, because it changes every year that it comes out and the wonderful people at AAMT have done everything possible to make this a profession that not many people want to get into anymore.
Sure, it was great when my girls were babies and I had a lot of flexibility in my job, but I could also put in about 6 hours a day way back then and still pull in over $40,000 a year. For the past 5 years I have been working all kinds of crazy shifts for pennies less than what I used to make!
Even though in being an MT you do learn something new everyday and there are a FEW good QA people out there who are very helpful without being condescending!
Although most everything I have learned over the past 5 years I have learned from Google!! LOL!
Basically, it all comes down to what the client wants, and that is what I do.
Sorry this is so long, but I also needed to vent! QA people, think about who you are dealing with! - Real people with real families. We also have feelings, but for the most part QA people NEVER let you know if you are doing something right. I'm sure if I could QA 12 hours straight of your transcription, then I could find a few mistakes and then I could E-mail you and make you feel stupid and question your skills as an MT!
I welcome any feedback, both good or bad, to this post. I could care less, I am getting out of this profession because it is going nowhere, but overseas!
Anyway, Ms. Venting, hang in there, have some beer or wine and just relax before you call the moron on the phone and give her your opinion of her! For the rest of you poor MTs who choose to stay in this profession, I wish you luck! Really I do - because God knows your going to need it!
Venting on job interviews - sm
I'm so disgusted and discouraged. I've had three interviews in the last week, about three more in the last month, and ALL of the recruiters I spoke with had absolutely NO clue. After listening to their canned speech about their company, they invite my questions. My main concerns are the platform, how a line is defined (with or without spaces), headers and footers included, progam compatible with Expander that I have (IT or Shorthand), do they take out MY state taxes, (some don't), how is PTO paid, and a few more, but for each interview, but the time I got to this point in my list of questions, I'm totally disgusted because the recruiters cannot or won't answer my questions.(They are good about skirting the major points of things). They have to contact someone else, who is not available at this time, etc...and will get back to me - yea, right. WHAT is wrong with these people? Can't they answer simple questions? I don't feel that my list of questions is that outrageous, do you? Am I out of line for even asking these things? I've been burned too many times to agree to a job without asking these, and quite a few more questions, but can't get past first base with these recruiters. Are they so far removed from the actual transcription aspect of their companies that they can't find these things out beforehand and be ready for an appplicant's basic questions? The recruiter makes the first impression for a company, and if they are so far out in left field, what is the rest of the company like? ANYONE else have this experience?
Venting session
ROFL! I am so there. I went to interview at a warehouse driving forklifts this past week. They said "have you ever had to work at a place where you had a certain production or deadline to meet?" and didn't understand why I started laughing. I probably won't get it, but I am ready to do ANYTHING that doesn't include sitting in front of computer for hours at a time listening to somebody sleep dictating while eating Cheetos at 3 a.m. I bet I could paint some houses, too.
Grrrrrrr! Venting!
This doctor is particularly annoying in that while she is looking for information, she repeats the last word she just said. Add to that her nasally voice and I am ready to rip my hair out!
Lab reports revealed that...that...that...that...that...
The patient....patient.....patient.....patient.....patient also had....had....had...had
period....period....period.....period.
Stop the madness!!! (Okay, I'm done. Back to work.)
Venting is allowed. :o}
You go right ahead. I had a sweet ESL lady today. I actually liked her accent because she at least said all the syllables for me, but I could tell she was putting in an extra effort with certain words to help. It was so sweet of her. Wish the spanish accent dictators would do that for me, LOL.
venting/advice
I have a scenario at work that I would love to solicit opinions on & see if anyone is on the same page as me. I am a Transcriptionist with 25+ years experience and considered quite good, and I currently am the sole transcriptionist for a very high volume cardiology practice. A co-worker of mine, who is over the billing dept, has a daughter who is taking an at-home transcription course (At-Home Professions), has not finished it, and in her own words "is not doing too bad at it". Whatever that means. My coworker has been trying to push her daughter off on me for a long time, but I've always side-stepped the issue because the girl is not qualified. Well, last Friday I was off work having a cervical nerve root injection, and she chose this time to bring her daughter to the office and pitch her to our administrator, who, by the way, is a jerk for one thing and knows nothing about transcription either. He hired her on the spot as a part-time prn transcriptionist and I knew nothing about it until I got to work Monday morning and there she was. I am livid at the both of them. For one, my coworker had no business taking it upon herself to decide who should be hired to help ME, and the administrator should have never, in my opinion, hired her without at least getting my input. The cardiologist and I have a very good relationship; in fact, he worked on me for 3 months, convincing me to come work for him, and I know he is very happy with me, and my inclination is to go to him and tell him exactly what went down. I've been told I will incur the wrath of the administrator if I go over his head and directly to the doc, but that would be pointless because he's part of the problem! I'm probably going to have to have surgery (and I'd also like to have a vacation this summer) so I know I need help, but I'm actually in the process of trying to solicit help from a pool of qualified people, transcriptionists from our local hospitals who might be interested in filling in for me from time to time. I want to know that whoever sits in my chair while I'm out will be able to handle it, and this girl has NO experience whatsoever - she didn't even know how to address a cover letter yesterday. I know that no mattter who I get, I will have to show them the ropes, show them our system, etc., and that's fine, but I do NOT have the time to train someone from the ground up, which is basically what I would be doing. Cardiology, in my opinion, is too hard a specialty to start off with, and our volume is so massive that I can barely keep my head above water myself, and I'm fast. I simply do not have time to train anyone. I'm so offended over this. Should I go to the doc or just let things ride and let her work speak for itself? I'm not sure the most diplomatic way to handle this, though I'm leaning toward talking to the doctor. What would you guys do? All opinions will be appreciated and considered, and thanks for taking the time.
Venting - Hate my job
I hate my job I've been at this company for 3 weeks. I hate this account, hate the ExText system and I'm making half the money I did at my last job. There - feel better, but still hate this. Don't tell me how grateful I should be that I have a job - working in sweatshop conditions is nothing to be grateful for. I've been at this job a loooooooooong time and there is nothing lucky about it.
Grrrghh! Just venting...
…What gives with these doctors dictating in the present tense (e.g., operative notes) - "The patient is brought to the operating room and is administered general endotracheal anesthesia. Is placed in Allen stirrups." Then, every other sentence, he/she changes to past tense - "Was prepped and draped in a sterile fashion, and single-tooth tenaculum was placed…" Is it just me, or does irritate others as well??
Job posting - venting
We recently posted a job, looking for new ICs in the Southern California area. We had four confirmed, and a possible fifth, to attend the orientation and training. Sounded like we were going to have a successful three-day recruiting and training session on our system, and to get to know the new ICs..
Emails were sent to confirm the meeting time. After going through the expense of flight, hotel and car, we had ONE of the Transcriptionist show up. One called Monday after the session started to let us know that she would like to come to a later training (assuming we were going to do a regular trip out to California??), and the other three never showed, never called.
Luckily, we did find one very experienced individual whom we got set up within two days of training, so not all was lost. However, we probably could have set this one person up over the phone. Trying to train four or five people over the phone is just a little too daunting if you need people started up quickly for a new account.
We are now looking at alternatives, to do remote training rather than making an extra effort to go and meet the remote transcriptionists we are looking at hiring. We will be contacting all of the others who applied within the next few weeks.
So, this is just a frustrated MTSO venting and sending out a request to those who are interested in work, who contact a service on a job post, most particularly a small to moderate sized service - please do not apply if you are not serious about taking work.
Smiling again. One Great transcriptionist is worth five in the bush....
Venting on a holiday
Anybody out there working today, LABOR DAY? Expected to work the holiday, and guess what, no work! And then when it trickles in, of course the crummy junk bottom of the bucket type which add up to no lines, and getting lots of comments from QA (who is looking for something to do, no doubt).
How about we don't work a holiday, and everyone comes to work Tuesday with stuff to type, everyone makes money?
Bad idea of course, we have to remember the TATs.
Sorry to be so crabby, but thanks for listening to he vent.
Then I don't blame you for venting.
Nobody should cherry pick. I never do it. I take all the junk that comes down the pike now. I hate a certain work type, but when I get it, I just curse under my breath and do it. 
OMG! Pulling my hair out here! Venting...
I have an ESL who speaks very fast, but when I slow him down, he sounds like a very drunk ESL. He tends to speak rather softly until the last 3 or 4 words of his dicatation, when he actually speaks into whatever he dictates into and I can hear those few words very well. This guy has been a pebble in my shoe for far too long!
Ok, venting over. Ignore the crazy lady. 
Venting. MTSO doesn't want to pay.
I've worked for a MTSO off for 8 years, who wants me to work for her off and on, but does not want to pay me 8 CPL. I'm tired of "helping her out" when she's got an issue, and she's always got an issue. I told her I will "help" her out for 8 CPL. Been getting 6, then 7. It's 8 years. Surely she's raised her rates enough to pay me that? Maybe not. We are in VA.
I have someone who wants me to start soon at 10 CPL, so I told her I can't work for her after I start with that company. She tells me the most she can pay me is 8 CPL.
I charged her 8 CPL, and today no work. I guess I got my answer.
Irritated at my MTSO - Venting! (LM)
I am SO irritated. Would you be irritated, too? Just looking for some input, here.
I am an independent contractor. When I was hired, I made it very clear to the potential employer that I work on a 24-hour turnaround, less if told in advance that I am needed, but that I do not sit at my computer all day from 8-5. I get my work done whether I work 8-3 or 10 PM until 4 AM. (I work from home with children, and I do MT rather than use my degrees so that I can be with them. This is why that was made VERY clear before I accepted the position. I am not just sitting there waiting for work to come in.) If it comes in by 7 PM on Monday, it is back by 8 AM on Tuesday. That's my contract.
These are some things that have happened:
1. The MTSO got mad at me one day because she emailed me in the morning telling me about some STAT jobs she needed done RIGHT AWAY. Well, I had turned in my work from the previous day the night before, and I had signed up to be a chaperone on my child's field trip that morning. I was not on my computer until the afternoon. That is what she understood when she hired me.
However, when I got on to work that afternoon, I had these angry emails from her wondering where her STAT work was. When I told her why it was not done, she told me that I was EXPECTED to check my email every morning before I "go anywhere". I told her that would not have mattered, because even if I had checked my email, I would not have done the STAT work until I got back because of my obligation to my previously made plans. That made her mad. Frankly, my opinion is "tough noogies". My contract is my contract, and if I have no other obligations I will be happy to do STAT work. But no, I am not going to put my child second to do a favor for her. It's like the poster says, "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part." She's mad.
2. I have a 99% accuracy rate. I consistently work weekends when the MTSO is behind. I am an outstanding MT. I work when I am sick, when my kids are sick, no matter what... I work. Well, one day the workers in the street cut a cable, which took out my internet connection and my DSL phone. I did the transcription using my home phone line, which cost me an arm and a leg in LD charges, but I then had no way to securely email the files. I let the MTSO know the problem and scrambled around calling until I found a friend not in my neighborhood who had Winzip and who had time to let me come to her house, use her Winzip and computer,and send my files. My work was 3 hours late. MTSO told me, "It's in your contract. It's not my problem what technical issues you have. I need your work ON TIME. Read your contract!"
How about my paycheck, which is CONSISTENTLY late because the MTSO doesn't get paid by the doctors on time? I hear things like, "I can't pay you if I don't get paid." How about next time I say, "It's not my problem what financial inflow problems you have. I need my paycheck ON TIME. Go take out a business loan using your phone system as collateral so that you have some operating capital, I don't care, but I need my check. The pay dates are in my contract. READ your OWN contract!"
3. Last thing I need to rant about today.... She called me one Friday saying that one of her MTs quit (shocking) and she needed help on another account. I went into the account. No templates, no samples, totally flying blind. I struggled through dictation for an hour with this doctor in a specialty I have no experience in at all, he has an accent I've not had to work on in years, it's totally new to me. In the meantime, my own accounts are stacking up. I emailed her and basically said, very professionally, that I'd be happy to keep working on this other account, but my own are stacking up. Would she like me to put in my regular amount of hours on this account and then catch up on my regular accounts next week, would she like me to do my regular accounts first and then put whatever time I have left to the new account, etc. She said that I needed to do the new account and then catch my accounts up over the weekend!
I told her that I was not available to work that weekend, so what would she like me to do as far as the options I had given her previously. She was mad. She said that for the good of the company, we all have to sacrifice, she will be working all weekend as well, etc. Excuse me. The "good of the company"? I have no benefits. I have no 401K. I have no vested interest in the business besides the fact that I make a per line rate. Sure, if she loses her business, I would lose my job... I would also have another one very quickly given my resume. If SHE has to work all weekend so that the docs don't get mad, she should. It's HER business. What part of that is hard for her to understand? Sure, if she had asked me ahead of time and said, "I really need your help. Do you have any time this weekend to work on this account?", she would have had a different response from me. But to tell me, "You have all weekend to catch up..." I DON'T think so. I am not a robot, I am a person with a husband and four children. I told her I could give her three hours on the weekend put toward any account she chooses, but that no, I would not be working until it was all caught up. She was mad.
Needless to say, I am looking for another job. But what is wrong with this woman?
I needed to vent. If you've made it this far, thank you for listening!
Ready to scream (venting)
 I am doing a loooooonnnng psychiatric report by an ESL who must be sitting 1 mm from some machine that is beeping loudly every half second. I am able to hear every fourth word over the loud beeping and that word takes me five minutes to decipher because of his accent  Is it noon somewhere so I can have a drink?  
venting re foreign patient names
I just typed a long report where the patient has some weird foreign name so it's difficult to tell gender. The doc dictates as a male throughout, i.e. he, his etc. At the end changes it to a female. 
Are you venting as a patient or as an employee/contractor? -nm
Yes, venting generalizations on a message board is about as unprofessional
as a business owner can get. I'm glad I DID NOT apply with this company! Sounds too high maintenance, high stress, negative, dictatorial and critical for me.
Venting session = so tired of crappy MT companies...
I have just about had it! I mean I have over 14 years experience as Transcriptionist and all I can get is crappy pay rates, which now I am okay but could be better....And I am tired of getting crappy accounts! Whenever I ask to switch over to a different account, they tell me no. And these companies want PERFECTION, even though noone is perfect, for peanuts! I have seen places where they want you to work set hours even though you are an IC. What is up with that? Plus these places never off any good benefits, if any. What are we supposed to do. I am ready to go to a retail job or fast food. Somewhere where I can get out of the house, do my job and not have to worry about it all day long - not have to worry if I get an 9 hour shift worth of VERY BAD dictators. I bet I could surprise myself at how many hamburgers I could flip in an hour because I sure am tired of seeing how much crappy doctors I can type in an hour.
Does anyone else feel this frustrated? What happened to this profession?
venting gas, clearing nasal secretions, coughing nm
xx
you seem negative
its very frustrating, do you want to receive 20% less in your pay???? are we not allowed to vent on this board.. How come you are so agreeable to lose 20% of your income?
Yeh I have ignored the negative ones
Even though it really surprised me that people would actually post that reaction. There is a heck of a lot more good advice that I have taken in and as for therapy, I need that too. I don't usually open up to people in my life, I write things down, journal things, so coming to a message board seemed like a good idea to me, to get other perspectives. Thanks for the caring response.
Not to be negative but . . .
I think you'd have more luck organizing a media blitz to get Paris Hilton out on early release. :(
negative
Okay, just checking!
You ARE very negative!
You ARE discouraging and very rude when you talk about newbies not knowing enough and old fashioned Mt's "worked for it." What kind of comment is that?! How the heck do you know what they worked for or not if you have never taken those courses?! And, speaking of your "QA" experience, have you EVER trained (honestly) an MTEC or Andrews graduate?! There IS a difference! And weren't you the one that paid $5000 for YOUR "education" 15 years ago?! All these schools charge less now, AND give you more experience than ANY community college out there! Are you saying that your education is better, even if you paid more, learned less, but just because it was at an actual "location" where you could spend more money on gas to get there? Are you kidding me?!
Don't mean to be negative, but even
with your background summarizing 1000s of medical records, have you actually listened to a medical dictation? Summarizing written files is something entirely different than actually sitting down and listening to/transcribing a medical report. It is not as easy as the schools would lead you to believe. I would try legal transcription before getting into this profession.
why are you being so negative? sm
She has found a good job. It may never go to VR. The company I am working for hasn't gone to VR at all and doesn't plan to. Why not be happy for this person. I just don't understand trying to discourage someone.
Wow. Negative much?
There are some of us out there who do enjoy the profession and actually make money at it. Research your school carefully. Most schools will have stats on their grads who get jobs. Find out what percentage it is. Go with your gut. I have heard about those other two that you mentioned, but I didn't go to them, and I ended up with a good job.
Keep in mind, though, that this is not an industry where you will make a lot of money your first year. Even with a paid internship - that just means you're going to get minimum wage to do a lot of work. It'll be good experience, though. I barely broke minimum wage my first year, but I knew going into it that would be the case.
I can tell you that I make significantly more than that now, though. It is still possible.
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