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Why is the job so awful?  I'm wondering about specifics here. 

Here's what I'm garnering out of your posts - you don't own a headset, you don't own a foot pedal, and you are not doing well on tests, sometimes to the point of not even passing the screening and objective questions, not even making it to the practical portion (the actual transcribing).

You can get a decent headset for $20 bucks (even less on Ebay) and a pedal for $50 or less on Ebay.  You can download for free Express Scribe which will easily play most sound files.  So your explanation of failing tests because you don't have a headset or foot pedal is purely your own fault.  If you are so desperate to get an at-home job, then you should be willing to at least spend a minimum of $100 to help yourself succeed.

Finally, you have an in-house job that's paid hourly I presume since you've let your production fall to 600 lines without blinking.  Why on earth would you want to give that up?  Which brings me back to my original questions of what is so horrible about your current job? 

You must pay estimated tax for 2006 if both of the following apply.

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   You expect to owe at least $1000 in tax for 2006 after subtracting your withholding and credits.
   
   
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     90% of the tax to be shown on your 2006 tax return, or
     
     
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     100% of the tax shown on your 2005 tax return.  Your 2005 tax return must cover all 12 months.


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   So according to their own site, the only way you can pay yearly is if your husband has enough extra withheld that it equals what you paid in tax last year. Or you owe less than $1000...

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Good luck

when I have a bunch of work to do at night.  I try to get up and walk through the house, do a simple chore, get something to drink even if just water, helps me.  If I find myself actually falling asleep while typing it is definitely time for bed because then I have to relisten to my entire dictation to make sure it is good.  My DH is always telling me to go to bed at a decent time and get up early and I'll be more productive, which is really true if you are that tired.  With my work if I'm not out of TAT, I pick the easy/short jobs first and leave the longer/more difficult ones until I've had some rest.   While I may still have lots of minutes left, I don't have as many reports and I feel that I have accomplished something. 

I totally disagree.  The reason that half of them cannot get their line count in is because there are probably several of you working "off schedule" and it makes it impossible.  I run a small MTSO and if I knew that some of my IC's were doing what you do, they would be out without a second glance.   That is why the accounts run short and it is hard to balance the amount of MT's with the accounts.  But I think you are wrong and selfish to not care about anyone else but yourself.   Whatever your money buys you won't help you at the day of revelation.

Yes they are greedy and hire the cheapest they can get by with.  They are the ones who took over what used to be transcription companies owned by women.  They saw a chance to make some easy money and that is the bottom line.  They checked us all out, moved in like vultures and offered our clients free equipment, discounted work for a year, and then it has turned into this mess that we see now with offshoring, bickering, low wages, and on and on.  Now they are overcharging the clients that were unfortunate enough to fall for the line of garbage when theyear switched over to the "bigger techno MTSO" who really were unprepared, as far as I am concerned, for what they took on.  Look where we are now, offshoring, and on and on and on.  Sigh. 

Another thing I would like to see is QA departments policing themselves.  I pulled out 22 binders filled with templates, samples, etc. from 10 different sources and guess what I found?  Mistakes by the boatload.  These are samples that were sent out to MTs by QA departments to "go by" - how hilarious. These were companies with great reputations and some are currently in business using the same templates, the same samples, etc.   The temples were to be used "verbatim" and the MT is to insert any changers by the dictator, but all else was to be left.  One had cc as cc's (gasp) and wrong tenses (gasp), 7.0 instead of 7, and on and on.  Some were horrendous and beyond belief and were handed out by QA departments. 

One client that I do business with has five QA people and none of them agree with the other.  They all have their own "style" as they put it.  So, it just depends on who is on if they pull your report for a once-over or you have a blank.  Then,, the politics goes like this:  They all want the MTs to send the QAs you got from other QA people to THEM (the QA person who did not QA that report).  That is like QA doing QA on QA.  Sounds like maybe extra careful?   No, they then send it to their supervisor trying to get the other QA persons fired.  Nice colleague interaction going there, right? 

I only go by BOS almost completely if the work is hospital because of the audits that go on with JCAH or whatever they call themselves these days.  Then, sometimes the doctors don't agree with JCAH and want it their own way, which may not be the way some QA wants it.  The bottom line is I tell them from the outset that I do it the right way, the way the one who signs the document wants it.  That is the bottom line.  If the hospital complaints I refer them back to the dictator.  When I have one of those I put comments on the page for my future reference and that of QA.  I only violate the dictators wishes when he or she wants me to transcribe against HIPAA regulations (like the patient's name, address, and phone number, etc.)  I then comment that the information was dictated, but not transcribable due to HIPAA regulations. 

know if I have too many screens opened up and minimized or what. I tried to open a website sent by email and froze up the email screen. Not sure what I am doing.