Were you exhausted? How do you manage?
Posted By: sleepy MT on 2008-10-30
In Reply to: I'm in my 9th year of homeschooling. Have worked - me
I'm finding it hard to do the things I wanted. I also work the spli shift thing, but im so tired. I dont know if im trying to work too much and i just need to go to PT or what. Also, I would like to be more instructional, work with maps, field trips to the museums and such. How did you do that?
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Exhausted from doing that many lines
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(how does one know that the Subject line has been exhausted?
If you defer the report to someone else, you are just calling even more attention to the sensitivity of the situation. If you type it yourself, it seems to me, you are then in control of whether the info is disseminated or not. ????
Feeling so exhausted today sm
couldn't be that 9500 lines I have done since Tuesday, could it? I have to pick up and work later and/or tomorrow. I think I am fried.
What did you type this week?
mygawd!! it's my metabolism? I just thought I was exhausted...nm
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Did you ever dream you were typing all night and wake up exhausted?
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where does your mom manage? sm
My dad managed stores in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.
I guess you are probably as surprised as I am that anyone would think that managers in big retail giants don't make good money.
use someone else to manage
Have someone else contact her as a manager besides yourself and explain to her the rules are for everybody and have to be uniform.
How do you manage that?
Gosh it must take quite a balancing act to get them all done? What do you tell one when you have to do the other? How do you decide which one you will do? Do you have other people that will cover for you when need be? Telephone must be ringing off the chain all the time....
How do you MQ employees manage
to get in your 1200 lines in only 8 hours? I am having a dickens of a time, lots of ESLs, new account, etc. Just how do you do it? I figure it will take me 12 hours! Do you ask them to approve OT or what? I'm new at this, need to know. Have to have that insurance.
Yes, I do manage to get enough work on my
account through Amherst, at least so far, but I guess I should just be considered extremely lucky.
How can I manage 2 jobs. I am currently
working as an employee with good benefits, but I hate the company.... treated like a doormat. I work as IC part time for another company that I love and am very productive and love the sofware platform. I am considering trying to do the 1000 line requirement for the full-time in order to keep benefits, and then do 1000 lines for the company as IC. How does one juggle this type of situation?
Thanks to all... I did manage a chuckle or two
from your stories. But why does it have to be like this? Just because we work at home? I think I will go on strike. Just keep my office clean since that is the only place I get to be these days. I have a reprieve from my second job tonight so I think I will just close my eyes, close my ears and shut off all other senses to the slobs I live with and leave for night for my women's group party I did not plan to go to. Thank to all.
I do know how to manage a team, obviously,
since I have my own service. I know that you can't put someone with much less experience in a position over a bunch of people with a lot of experience. It just does not work. I not only have a lot of MT experience, but I have been a service owner for quite a few years. Before that, I worked in a hospital transcription department with a lot of seasoned MTs. Through the years you see a lot of supervisory changes and what it boils down to is the experienced MTs need/want someone who knows more than they do, someone they can go to for help, when they need it. With someone less experienced, they can't.
One of the big problems people had with Medquist when it started was that the "suits" were running things - not people who actually knew what they were doing when it came to transcription. You have to know both sides of it. And I can tell you from years and years of experience, it doesn't work when you try to put someone with less experience over those with lots of experience. The seasoned MTs have NO respect for someone who knows less than they do.
Sorry, but that's the way it is.
I manage just fine...
Wow... um, yes. I get plenty of work done. I'm not in the country and I use headphones and the noise of being outside doesn't bother me or interfere just like indoor noises (the heater, the ice maker, creaking floorboards) don't bother me inside. I also have no trouble seeing on my laptop screen and I don't have anything special for it. And, uh, it would have to be a serious insect swarm for the sound of bugs to be loud enough to keep me from hearing my work.
I don't work from bed because I'm lazy, I work in bed (occasionally, rather than calling in sick) because I have joint issues that make me more fatigued when sitting up typing all day. I would not put myself in a position where I was falling asleep on the job (I'm not lying down, I'm sitting up straight, just my back is supported and my legs are extended rather than hanging down).
I am a professional and I've been in this business a long time, I just don't see any reason to be trapped behind a desk if I don't have to be. We are fortunate enough to work in a career that gives us some perks like flexibility and a home environment, so I try to make the most of it. Being happy and comfortable enhances my production and I don't get burnt out as easily when I can change the scenery a little every now and then. Everyone should obviously work in whatever fashion helps them succeed but I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting on the porch on a nice day or working from a comfy spot on not so nice ones.
To each his own, I guess... I'd bet there are plenty of pajama-wearing MTs around here that are grateful to be able to have that option. I don't work in jammies but I do kick back once in awhile and work with my situation to the best of my ability.
Anyway... it works for me. I was just making the suggestion for others that struggle with pain issues or would like an occasional alternative to the same old desk.
I manage my former boss's websites (he has 2), --
other than that, sell some stuff I don't need anymore on ebay now and then...did about $200 a month for about a year.....got rid of most everything though I really wanted to dump...have a few things now I need to list so maybe I will get lucky this month!
I swear, the people who manage
this site should put a button right under 'main board' that says 'MQ Gripe Board' so that the seemingly hundreds of disgruntled MQ'ers can gripe and argue all day long and the rest of us would be spared. Every page of this board is filled with arguments between the MQ gripers and the few MQ folks who claim they are happy. At some point you'd think the (MQ people) would realize that non MQ'ers don't want to hear this stuff every single day, all day long.
It is very difficult to manage this program.
It has a lot of flaws, locks up frequently, some issues with voice quality, etc. I would put it at the bottom of the list of considerations.
You don't manage your own savings account?
5 grand instead of the government. 
not true, I make good $$$ and manage to come
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email back and mention how you don't know how they manage on so little.
Yeah, you have to be a doctor now to manage your own care!
I still have daily fevers of 100-102 18 months postop, so I know what you mean. Does the 4 abscesses draining for weeks on end tell them anything? I had severe hypertension that despite 17 doctors along with PAs and nurses could not diagnose despite "the worst headaches of my life," blood pressure of 216/106, slurred speech, collapsing in the shower, mental confusion, extremely loud tinnitus, chest pain, shortness of breath, lower extremity edema, etc. I type OPs and pain management, so I was clueless. One day I was typing "The patient started Norvasc, and his headaches improved." I ran to the doctor and stomped on the floor until I got a hypertensive. Then, what do they give me? Hydrochlorothiazide, when I have severe hypertension. Nitwits. I could go on and on. Best advise, make sure you are in charge of your care. Good luck!
Because the people who manage things in health
My thoughts are, when their bad kharma finally comes back to them, I hope it really hurts. Then they'll know how it feels to be an MT.
I am going to order Shorthand for myself today. I love it. You can also manage your words in
:+
You work full time, manage a house and cut 11 acres? No way man! Not me :)
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