What would be ideal is a combination of the ErgoMagic
Posted By: MEOW on 2008-11-03
In Reply to: No, but.... - MTinNC
keyboard that can be angled PLUS that touch pad. hmmmmm
I'll definitely post if I find one that works for me.
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Ergoflex or Ergomagic Keyboards sm
Has anyone used the Comfort Ergomagic or Ergoflex keyboards. Do you like it? What kind of platform in on the keyboards that make it so tall - 2.5 inches.
My ideal MT job.
1. CONSISTENT workload so I'm not sitting here on-call for free one day waiting for work, then working a double shift the next day to get it all done on time.
2. CONSISTENT QA and feedback that doesn't change from person to person or week to week.
3. Ability to specialize and use my Expander or normals so I can crank out the lines. (Really, why wouldn't MTSOs want people assigned to certain accounts? Then we'd all be making $30 an hour instead of fighting three accounts all with 500 dictators and hundreds of specialties and ESLs. TAT wouldn't be an issue if we all could focus on one area and do it well. Yeah, yeah, I understand about staffing issues and needing well rounded MTs, but this is my fantasy.)
4. Excellent platform so I'm not wasting time looking up patient or physician info, swapping from screen to screen, or whatever.
The rest of that stuff is a given. I won't work for a company that cheats me or pays late.
My ideal job
Working for the county coroner's office transcribing autopsy reports with full county benefits.
I'm a total ghoul, huh? :-(
searching for the ideal..
 I am soooo very anxious right now. I have cried all morning and cannot seem to console myself or come up with a solution. I have been doing transcription for over 12 years and have been home for the last four. Through those four years, though I love being at home, I have come up with generally zip as far as contentment in my job goes. I have been an employee status, as well as an independent contractor. I have worked for places that seemed 'ideal' until 3 months or so were up, then they'd switch accounts on me (starting out on great accounts and leaving me struggling with a bunch of crud nobody in their right minds would want to do), dealing with owners or supervisors who lay out the 'heavy hand' and do nothing but tell you what you DO WRONG (one who comes to mind nearly gave me a nervous collapse--never could please her and who'd want to the way she treated you, sarcastic, mightier than thou approach).. ugh! I have done basic four hospital transcription, clinic transcription, ER transcription, and I just am not finding 'THE BEST' place to be. I don't know.. maybe I'm SUPER BURNED OUT. I never make enough money, don't have benefits, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I'm just finished with this 'career.' If I find a place where I make a decent amount of cash, I either have to put up with an idiot for a manager/ boss/ supervisor/owner or hideous dictation. If I go to a place that seems good as far as dictation/accounts go, and the management is decent, I wind up making next to nothing in pay. Most places I've experienced give you a come-on to begin with, give you a decent account and after two to three months, they switch you to the crap work. Still, they give you no pay raises for even attempting to do these reports, not like they would anyway. I think I have worked for at least six different companies since being at home in the last four years. I am sick of making no money, not enjoying my job anymore and dealing with all the crap nobody else wants to do. Sorry, I had to vent.. I'm ready to give up and find a job that actually PAYS in more ways than one. 
No, December's NOT ideal...
Anyone who's from Florida or has been there knows the rates for EVERYTHING go shooting through the sky come the season, which is the week before Thanksgiving through week after Easter.
Granted, the weather's beautiful in December, but you WILL pay for it if you go to Disney, make no mistake..... 
Right! It's not ideal pay but we have to make a
JMHO
Glad that you have ideal ...sm
conditions under which to work, always plenty of work, no downtime, great accounts that one can just breeze through, you don't have to spend time doing demographic/detective work that is unpaid for, great accounts, great dictators, can get all your lines in during your shift so you don't have to work off hours. But the rest of us, and that seems to be the overwhelming majority, going by what's been posted on this board, they can't all be wrong and they deserve equal time and deserve to express themselves equally, whether negatively or positively, the same as you do. They can't all be wrong you're so-o-o right. 
Sounds like you have the ideal situation.
Camry
I would love to be able to find a hospital job from home one day. Do you have to have broadband, or can you use dial up? Just curious. I am still stuck out in the boonies with dial up.
Lynn
The ideal typing position...
is demonstrated at this website:
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ahtutorials/typingposture.html
What would be your ideal romatic getaway? Annivery coming up
22 years next month. Thanks for your thoughts. Janice
Just don't go in the summer. The guides say that the first week in December is ideal. nm
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A combination of both, but mostly A
People who have been dependent on the government their who life have never had anything expected of them but to take, take, take.
They then expect the government to take care of them and it's never enough.
They teach their kids to expect the government to take care of them.
None of these people have ever had to be resourceful, ambitious or develop any life-maintaining skills.
So it goes on and on and on.
The bottom line is this:
People will be what's expected of them. If nothing is ever expected of them that's what they become.
Somewhere along the line society was given some kind of responsibility for taking care of people who refuse to even try. I have no problem with the gov't helping out someone who has lost her job, got divorced, has an unexpected crisis, but most of these people have been on some kind of program for generations and just expect it with no intention of ever supporting themselves, and even worse, they reproduce like rabbits because there are no repercussions for the irresponsible behavior.
Combination
NM
I think its a combination of things, I myself would
That consistently runs out of work, because I have nothing to fall back on. Maybe these ladies have a husband who can pick up the slack, so they are not so worried. Also its a pain in the butt to post your resume and start all over with a new company, new dictators, and not to mention you don't know what you're getting paid until youre actually signed on and let go from your other job. Whats up with that? Why don't they ever post the actual salary like other lines of work? They at least say "start out at 30,000k per year" or something similar. Its a big mystery what your paycheck will be and thats a nail biter in itself.
You will also sometimes find a combination...
There are accounts where you do the clinic notes (for office visits - H&Ps and consults) and also the acute care reports for that same doctor/doctors when they perform surgery or another in-hospital procedure. Then you'll have the operative report as well as the discharge summary. I love these accounts, as you follow the patient from initial diagnosis (sometimes after several office visits), through their hospital course, and then back to the office for followup.
As far as knowing what type of work a company has - ask. That is the best way to find out.
combination of 3 meds usually (sm)
Most hospitals have their own chemo cocktails for mouth sores but most consist of Mylanta/ Maalox, Benadryl and lidocaine or xylocaine anything to numb the soreness of the ulcers.
That's a great combination!
When using weights, even light ones, remember that technique is very important. Move the weights slowly with no momentum. Don't let wrists flop. They should be rigid and slightly curled in.
There may be a combination of both. I nearly flunked
typing in junior high and I can't believe I make my living typing. I know it is more than typing, but .... I had no MT training, no MT education, just kind of fell into it. My very first day I did 667 lines. I wasn't working in an office but in the MTSO's home office. I didn't have an Expander at the time. Now many years later (18) I can do 2700 lines/day on a good day, but 1800 to 2200 is my norm. My typing speed increased, plus my terminology has increased so I'm not looking up a lot of stuff. Between the 2 it has allowed me to increase my lines.
You really can't compare what you do to others because there are lots of factors. How they count lines, the difficulty of the dictation, the platform, etc.
How about a combination of both approaches? SM
I've been using an Expander almost as long as the first primitive little DOS-based one became available. So of course, with no Mary Morkens or anything else out there, I started out building my entire system from scratch to suit myself. And I definitely believe it works for me much better than an imported system could.
However, ultimately it took a tremendous investment of time, and it's the only one like it in the world. If I ever lost it, I might just leave the field and start selling plants from my garden on e-bay or something.
A lot of people who work in offices will some morning come in and be greeted by the information that they've been laid off and a security officer assigned to make sure they don't mess with the computer. Will they have a copy of their dictionary at home or lose everything?
Losing a dictionary built on a standard system, then personalized and built up further would be hard but not crippling. And as pointed out, no need to reinvent the wheel...totally from scratch anyway.
I'd say a combination of B and C. House may be miserable, but after
watching all House episodes, he does have a heart, albeit surrounded by iron, lock with no key.
No but sounds like a deadly combination. nm
This is the perfect combination for termites too. nm
Different combination shortcut keys that I don't want to
also incompatible with Stedman Smartype (Word 2003 made a change that conflicts with Smartype, not a Smartype issue). Earlier versions of Word do not have this conflict.
What if you brought on a combination MT/QA person, and - sm
you each transcribed, and then each checked the other's work? QA would go faster, more transcription could be done, and you'd sort of be killing 2 birds with one stone, while still being able to remain a small, high-quality service.
It has to be a combination of talent for this work and SM
platform/work count. I have the talent and my production initially was excellent but then my income kept going down, and dowm, without any discernible cause. The difference was in how production was being counted on the other side of the computer screen. Fine, if it's fair and we understand why, but we weren't being told even that the decreases were occurring, much less why. Someone the ability to put out good work but without that initial earnings experience might think it was only him or her.
Have you ever had "hypocrit" pie, a combination of applie and custard. nm
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Oh I see, I'm glad you found a combination that works for you! nm
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Asian OB-GYN is my hangup, not just Asian, but a combination of the 2 (nm)
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