Your hours will need to change as baby grows and starts to sleep less, too! Naps become too

• WORKING WITH KIDS - TESS
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  • Your hours will need to change as baby grows and starts to sleep less, too! Naps become too - infrequent too soon. nm
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I understand what you are saying about the kids will always bug me no matter what.  I just thought that if I had a job where I didn't have to hear dictation and type word for word that maybe it might be easier to block out the kids.  There are no babysitters to watch the kids around here, besides that is why I work at in home in the first place.  The kids are 2 and 5 so hopefully it will get easier.

Thanks

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In your place, I would seriously consider changing providers if there were others available in your area, but I'd ask around about their service quality first.  It may not be any better.  If there are no other providers, then consider changing your service package to a business account rather than residential.  They're usually more expensive, but they also tend to get faster service if there's a problem.

Last summer, I had no electricity for 3 days due to severe storms, but there were some 600,000 in the same boat with me.  We just had to wait it out.  It's a downside of working at home.

you slice it, both companies will still get 8 hours worth of work out of you.

That is the problem I've been having lately being an MT.  Companies want to pay us on production and they set minimum productivity standards, but want us timed in for 8 hours a day.  My thinking is, if they want 8 hours of work out of me, pay me hourly with production incentive.  If they want to pay me on production and tell how much I have to produce in an 8 hour period, then when I hit that mark, I should be able to call it a day even if I've only worked 4 hours.

Seems these companies want it both ways and it is simply not fair to us MTs.  JMO, tho.

You have to be disciplined to make yourself work when baby is napping instead of maybe watching TV or doing housework, etc.   

I might also go the route of having a teen come into your home, or either trying a mother's morning out program at a local church/daycare.   I've been home since my youngest was born and he has never been in all-day daycare, but I did have him in a mother's morning out program 15 hours a week at a local church.   It didn't help a lot with my work schedule because I had an older son in school and was a room mom and tutored other kids, but that might be an option.  The only problem with the mother's morning out program is they are around other kids and tend to pick up every germ.  I finally took my DS out of the program because he stayed sick.  You were supposed to keep them off if they had green nasal discharge and I did, but no one else did.  Every time I got him well after 2 to 3 days back he would be sick again.  Other than that it was very good for him because he would not have had a chance to be around kids his age otherwise. 

fully believe it starts as something to pass the time or forget problems, but then the body becomes dependent and then it causes disease.

before the naysayers (or the ones cycling through the system) start, we pay top money, always have AND the work is there...have never had complaints of not enough work.  I have had people claiming to do 100+ reports a day that do 20 a week...I have had MTs claiming that they have never had reports returned and yet every report they produce is full of errors or blanks.  So either there are clients out there that take anything produced and have editors they pay to fix everything or these people are in LALALALALAL land. 

I have had seasoned MTs apply that can not produce quality work...so while I have "been there and done that" as to working for national companies that give you 3 or more accounts because they over hire...worked for national companies that get you up and running then switch you to ESL only accounts so you never make bonus or even lines for the day...I have also been on the end of hiring and setting up people that have stolen equipment, programs and clients.  I have hired people after good screening that have never started work, or worked one day and then never worked again. 

It is a two way street...there are good MTs (all of which must be working because I sure have not found any lately) and there are bad..the same bad ones that slam newbies on the boards or give snippy answers for everything posted.  AND htere are bad MTSOs out there too.  Not everyone is a perfect match for each other, but as someone that has been on both sides, it gets old to constantly hear about the bad MTSO or even national companies, but we never hear ANYTHING about the bad MTs that are out there...and there are...ask any MTSO :-)

as in 1.  P.r.n. ibuproben.  If you were typing out the Latin for pro re nata, that's how you'd do it (or at least I would), i.e.  1.  Pro re nata.  

However, I agree with "fixing" it when allowed.  Some accounts are strict verbatim, others are what I call "smart verbatim," where they let you fix things to make sense, be grammatically correct, etc.

And I have cabin fever really, really bad from being home with the kids almost 24/7.  Plus, I don't get much adult interaction in the summer because all of my friends are busy with their own families, vacations, work, etc.  We don't get together as often as during the school year.

The work part of it is OK.  I have good accounts, but it can be boring or frustrating with interruptions.  Like the other poster, I have to play music in the background and buckle down to be productive.  However, there is something to be said for the flexibility that I have in working at home.  I'm here for the kids.  I can take a break whenever I want to.  I don't have to get dressed up or drive anywhere.  No office politics.  No supervisor screaming at me.  No out-of-town travel.  I have my own office now.  I have total control over the thermostat.  I can eat whatever I want to whenever I want to.  I'm saving money by not using daycare.  I make as much or more working part-time than if I worked fulltime, paid daycare, and had to drive to and from a job.  Best of all, I have time during the day to exercise, clean the house, or do my hobbies.  I'm not so exhausted by the end of the day that I just slap food on the table and veg out in front of the TV.  I don't watch TV at all any more!  For me, the benefits are still good enough to keep doing this for at least a few more years.  I can always go back into the workforce when the kids are older.