What a perfect analogy! Shoot, I switched offices in my own home and it took a good 2 wks
Posted By: to get my production up! NM on 2005-07-30
In Reply to: Ever try cooking a meal in someone else's kitchen? sm - nm
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My experiences with home offices...
I used to have my office in the living room. It was really difficult for me and my family.
I moved it into the dining room ... again, was just a bad fit and crowded/cramped everything.
Finally I moved it to my bedroom. Now at first, I had my desk sitting out in the open and it became depressing. While I enjoyed the privacy and quiet (I could actually shut my door), it was all I saw when I was in my bedroom. That blank monitor staring at me, either making me feel guilty by not working more or making me dread going to work.
Soooo, then I got creative and I've been thrilled every since.
I pulled all of my clothes out of my closet and bought a beautiful armoire with drawers and a rod in the top to hang clothes. Beautiful asset to my bedroom.
I purchased a smaller but very nice desk and fit it right inside my closet. I have a lovely little lamp on my desk, streamlined all my paperwork to a minimum and put as much as I could live without (in tangible form) on the computer. Have a small vase I keep fresh but cheap flowers in. All I have is in the closet and I can close it up out of sight when I am done. I can store my books up on the shelf above plus I have a small CD player up there to play soft music while I work.
I did not want an ugly office chair anymore. I really liked my upholstered chair in my bedroom. So I had my son put rollers on it and now it is my chair. When I'm not working, I just turn it and angle it into the corner like it has always been...when I need to work, I just sit and slide right under my desk.
I could not be happier with this set up and it has been this way just over a year now.
Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out
working the night shift and sleeping in shifts during the day. My kids are way older but that doesn't mean they don't interrupt me. Besides, there the phone issue, more interruptions, the dogs bothered me a lot, too. Love them dearly but, oh so spoiled. It was taking me 10 hours to do what I can do in 8 on nights, plus I manage to get more sleep, if you can believe that. I still get supper on the table, vacuum, laundry, etc. So far it is working pretty good, so I think I will put in for permanent night hours for awhile. No sense in working 10 when I can work 8.
It IS the perfect arrangement...no kids, no husband, and working at home...priceless!
:-)
Contracts do no good. Doctors' offices break them
I had contracts with my physicians. I put thousands and thousands of dollars into new equipment because they asked for it, trained several transcriptionists at $5,000 a piece, and then they went EMR within a few months despite the contract. They had been setting the EMR up the whole time. Even when I found out about it through a third person, it was still denied. Do not count on contracts. Just because they sign something does not mean they will abide by it.
Got floor model of chair that was perfect fit. Final mark down was $40. Went got home saw original
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Wow... guess nobody's perfect? Good luck with that. NM
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you know as couples go, angelina and billy bob were perfect skanks for each other. perfect!
i suspect they may get back together because they are both so skanky no one else can keep up. that is unless she decides she wants her brother more which is skankier.
my D.C. analogy...................sm
My reference to Washington DC, which, by the way, I separated and put at the very end of the post, had really nothing to do with you. It was merely an example of ALL that is NOT NORMAL in the USA....and I'm sorry I confused you...
By separating my last line, I figured most would get my riff about things not being normal in D.C. 
Not fair analogy - sm
I worked outside the home for YEARS as an MT and when I came home I had all the classic problems until I recognized it and drew the line. Saying she would not have to ask that question if she had is not a fair assumption.
Your other points are spot on and I totally agree. I just happen to think it is much, much harder to draw those lines because people assume if you are at home, you are approachable. And many women don't realize where "being nice" is getting them until the work's not getting done and she's stressed to the max.
OP, you have to find your own way of setting aside that time and not letting people interrupt you. My husband has always supported me in working, but when I came home, all of a sudden he was calling all the time, it seemed, for me to look up directions on the Internet (he's a serviceman), to remind me to call the bank or any of a number of other little tasks. I finally had to sit him down and in no uncertain terms explain that my being at home was NO different from when I wasn't in terms of his calling me "at work" and it had to stop!
Nice analogy.
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Great analogy to you want fries with that
Often I "find" things in IT that I did not realize I had in there by just glancing when I am typing something that I feel should have an expansion.
The marker keys are a challenge to get used to, I couldn't use spacebar because I was using DQS when I got IT, so I also have my old Autocorrect still active and that works on the spacebar. I use semi and backslash for my markers - I think. The muscle memory is so old that I truly can't remember, it just happens.
I agree with the poster who said to work on one thing at a time and once you notice that it has become easy to do without any thought then move onto something else. I started with working on the phrase side because it is the biggest bang for your buck - more characters with fewer keystrokes.
I think the key to being successful with IT after the learning curve is finding a rhythm and just keep filling it up with expansions that make sense to you so you don't have to search for them. I often use the first two words of a long phrase as the short form because it will show up if I start typing it and I can just marker the rest of it in.
I wish you good luck figuring it out and would encourage you to stick with it and find your own tricks to it, as I think it really makes a difference in the fatigue factor, which is more important some days than line count.
I think someone mentioned Productivity Talk and the IT website, which both have lots of tips and tricks too.
Kelli
Shoot
Well, good luck!
Don't shoot her down
As with any business idea, some work out and some don't. She may do very well. In fact, she may run across a local clinic/provider who is dissatified with the quality of the current work he or she is gettng and will want to give her a chance.
I wonder how many people told Bill Gates to forget it when he was working on computer stuff in his garage?
CAN'T SHOOT 'EM....LOL.....NM
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well, tell me cuz I wont shoot you down
I believe everyone that says they make that much. I can type over 2000 lines a day but find that it is hard to do that everyday for myself. how many lines do you type daily and then how many hours do you work. my pay tier is this 7 cpl to 3000 lines, 9 cpl to 6000 lines and then after 6000, 10 cpl.
I usually do 1250+, I shoot for 250 lph
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Shoot yeah! If they need someone else, let me know!
nm
Shoot I forgot
You can order it here cheapest for a 1 year license. At the end of the year, you can renew through Kaspersky or buy another from these guys. Shipping is fast.
http://www.royaldiscount.com/kaspersky.html
Good one, Home MT....
I had been using www.healthgrades.com but you have to go through a long convoluted trail of clicking through specialties and cities and agreeing to disclaimers.
I like your site. It is straight forward and takes partial names.
Thank You!!! 
Shoot, my animals are all cute.
My dog will jump on her hind legs and "box" with you by smacking your hands with her front paws.
My cat likes to go berserk inside cardboard boxes. He also perches on my desk and dips his paws in my betta bowl. Then he climbs all the way up the screen door and yowls if I'm outside. Typical cat behavior, I guess, but this is my first kitty so it's funny. He's a loverboy, too. He crawls up on me, sticks his head under my hair, chews my hair, bites my neck, purrs and goes to sleep.
RE: Drop shoot software
Can anyone explain what Drop shoot software is and where to get it? Thanks
Good idea, esp. if in your home...nm
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Good ideas - but most want to be at home! sm
I work more being at home, albeit not in 8 straight hours, but I get more work done at home with more lph working in 2-hour shifts throughout the day. Working in the office would not cut it for me. I have been working at home for 16 years now, no way will I go back to an office. So, if you are looking for the seasoned MTs to work in the office with the newbies - good luck with that!
I think you have great ideas and it will work, you just might have to modify a few things along the way.
Best of luck to you!
Good to know. Thanks. I hope he has someone at home sm
who can do that for him. He'll just have to keep growing! Thank goodness no one has thought 20" is too small!
I consider job searching in the MT field a crap shoot
You can never tell which would be better than another until you try it. Too many bait and switchers out there.
Hey Lynn, Shoot me an e-mail. I'd love to know
what Webmedx offered you!!! If you wouldn't mind sharing. 
Teenagers good to be home with - I did the same thing
 Once had an argument with my boss working in the office, because my hours were supposed to be 7-3, or 3:30. I was on salary (can you believe that) at the time, and she expected me to stay till 5 or 6. She herself used to practically live there. I told her no, I wanted to be home with my kids, and she said they weren't babies anymore and didn't need me. Well, I left everyday after that by 3:30, and believe U me, it is a very good idea to be able to monitor your teenagers, and I would do it again (God forbid I ever had teenagers again) They are all grown now.
Does anybody have a GOOD home remedy for fleas...
I have two "sons" (shih tzus), one has long hair and the other has short hair. My short haired baby has fleas that I cannot get rid of. I have tried all kinds of over the counter medicine and I have done everything including cleaning this house top to bottom and bathing him 3 times a week. One would think the long haired one would have them worse, but he doesn't. He enjoys being groomed though and brushed daily whereas my short haired guy thinks the brush is a toy. I used the Zodiac line last year and had absolutely no problems at all but it is just not working this year. Any good ideas would be appreciated!!!!
Good thing you work at home
Hopefully one day when you need to vent, you at not treated the way you treat others but what goes around does come around.
Another good idea is Home Depot
My friend used to work in the travel industry, which has also gone down the tubes pretty much as a result of technology.
She's a very talented Martha Stewart type of person and always has a yard that's the envy of the neighborhood. She's seriously thinking of applying at Home Depot's home and garden department to give people advice about their yards. She said it pays well and the same with the benefits.
If you're talented in any type of home decorating, home repair, or horticulture I'd say apply at the Home Depot or maybe Lowe's!
Good for you. I love my local at home job.
can't imagine doing good work at home
(no buddy-help) without MT training, and getting good QA scores. There's too bloody-much detail anymore, ie, all the BOS rules, on top of account specifics, terminology, accents, etc... I have seen a couple people pick up the terminology and do well with only on-the-job training in the hospital setting, but that seems rather rare.
Shoot - just apply at different companies stating your background
& your desire to learn OPs or orthopedics. My only experience was in radiology (10 yrs) & ENT (4 yrs)when I applied at a company to work at home(many,many years ago). I was hired - with no experience other than the above. They started me on DS, then HP & Consults - then "asked" me to try OPs. From then on, after more time spent looking things up than transcribing,with many tears shed, they kept me on OPs solely.
I'm now with another company after 12 yrs,& OPs are my speciality & all that I do.
Just keep applying to any & all companies that meet your criteria with your wishes known. Hopefully, you'll find a company that will let you expand your expertise beyond radiology & give you the opportunity to try such.
I wish you the best. Don't give up. If I could find such a company - so can you. Just keep on trying !!!
Well, shoot. quit! A recession's a great time to SM
go back to school anyway, like Amanda. I've forgotten some of the exact quotes I've read, but various economists have predicted that, because of the ongoing technology revolutions, people these days should plan on having to retrain for new jobs approximately 5 times during their lives. And they weren't talking about a little brush-up now and then either, but throwing in the towel and moving on. So how about having some fun figuring out what you should have done if you could go back and do it all over again, and then going for some version of it?
Since your family won't miss your income, if needed, you could spend your very last months in this field piling up tuition money to move on to something better.
Need a good recipe for home brew flea dip
I have a shih-tsu and 120 pound lab/blue tick hound. Needless to say, Savannah would cost me an arm and a leg with conventional dips. If anyone knows of a good home brew I would surely appreciate it.
What is a good inexpensive small home printer.
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Maybe that's a good thing - it's a reason for the Indian docs to GO HOME
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I make very good money at home with a small MTSO
I'm going to type an acct at home for local group. What is a good word expander for
things to know on doing tapes from an office? Is it best just to give them a disk and let them print it out at the office like they want to?
Anybody doing an acct like this? Thanks.
This will vary depending on dictator style and speed, but the average to shoot for initially shoud b
around 3 times the length of the dictation. So, if the dictation is 5 minutes long, you should be able to complete the transcription in roughly 15 minutes. Again, that can vary, but it's a good rule of thumb to go by.
Offices are different.
Your supervisor should be able to email you a rundown. My office has many different incentives, in fact, I have a hard time keeping track of them!
Why are all offices not ran the same?
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that's how I did it, that's why I switched to
employee status (one of the reasons)
When you were switched over to VR, did they - sm
continue to pay you the same amount per line, or was that lowered? If I could do more lines per day and get the same pay, that would probably be okay (if boring!), but if they cut the pay back, then you're still working just as hard, for less money.
So, did you keep your same per-line pay scale?
One of the Ohio offices
I'd rather not say which. Been there years.... it's gotten worse, not better!
How do you change offices?
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it seems to be all offices, have you signed
up for IPAY? I have not gotten a check yet either, but there is a statement there for 09/02 which obviously is not a regular paycheck
incompetent offices
Geez Mandy, you must work for the same place I did before I left LOL.
Offices need not comply .. but
we find that most do for the continuity in care issues that any practitioner faces.
I know this company. They switched sm
me from employee to IC status. I was told it was 30% off for headers/footers. It certainly is a rip-off. Cardiology MT myself.
I just switched to digital and it has been a big
headache! Just got another one of those heart-stopping calls .... um, the dictaphone isn't showing the dictation ... Yikes, where is it then!?! LOL
I'd still be doing tapes -- they are easy and no headaches like digital has been so far -- but for the past 12 years I've been driving three hours three days a week to pick up my clients' work and it was killing me. (I moved away from my town where my docs were to marry my DH - he was worth it ;) )
As for digital, for me I'm glad it was an option, but high fives to those of you doing tapes. Ain't nothing wrong with that! Money is money and around here there's more tape than digital to be had :)
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