ps I am NOW totally miserable
Posted By: anon on 2007-12-27
In Reply to: Do not quit - anon
Not "not"
Complete Discussion Below:  marks the location of current message within thread
The messages you are viewing
are archived/old.
To view latest messages and participate in discussions, select
the boards given in left menu
Other related messages found in our database
I'm miserable
My doc says I'm "legally" menopausal now. The hot flashes are horrendous. I can't take HRT because my mother, grandmother, aunt and first cousin all died of breast cancer. Guess I'll just keep sitting outside in the 20 degree weather (until my neighbors who think I've gone insane call the psych squad on me). What a difference a couple of years make -- I remember wearing sweats and covering up in an afghan to transcribe in the middle of summer because the A/C froze me!
that would be miserable!
Good luck to you in keeping them from getting demolished!
Yes - another thin one here - & it's miserable ! .
I have the usual, mid-priced, office chair from Office Depot with the thickest padding I could find within my price range. Felt okay for about a month then, like you, I had to sit on a pillow! My tailbone just felt like I was sitting on bare metal otherwise. Pillows are cheaper than chairs - so that, too, is what I do! I also added a lumbar support attached with Velcro, but normally when transcribing sit more foreword in my chair in order to reach my footpedal & don't get it's benefit (only when not working). I'm not only thin-I'm short in comparison to today's standards - I'm 5'1". What about you?
HAHAHAHA - miserable MT too, eh?..nm
xxxxx
miserable the last month or so?....nm
Between the miserable QA personnel and
physicians who misspell medications, I'm fed up. Not only are we supposed to check the spelling of a medication, even if the physician spells it, but also, if he or she dicates a letter to a patient, we are supposed to confirmt the patient's address; street as well as zip code. This is an absolute waste of my time, as the patient's addresses are not listed in any part of the demographics, but on the patient's CHART, from which the physician is looking at while dictating! I get even more inflamed when I receive an email from QA that ALWAYS include an explanation mark (!) in the opening sentence. I mean, who in the heck do these people think they are? I find them rude, demeaning, not to mention totally unprofessional when they care corresponding. Talk about forgetting one's roots, and how it was for them when they started. The tone of their emails speaks volumes that they are miserable doing their job, but get their jollies off by writing to you like you were a little kid. So if you love pulling rank and demeaning people all day, join the QA Department and be miserable like the rest ofl them. 
Not happy without being miserable?
I've been coming here for the past 2 years. I am a working MT who has paid my dues and been just as disappointed as all of you here from time to time. But the one thing I can't understand is why SO MANY of you can't seem to be happy if there isn't misery in your life.
Yes, you are warning newbies of the perils of this career. Yes, you are frustrated and want it to improve, want company and comfort...But there is so much toxic waste on this board. If you tell yourselves and each other how miserable it is in this field, you will all remain miserable.
Flame away and call me whatever names you want, but when you lay down tonight, you may just agree that wallowing in so much misery is not the way to live when life is so short. If you hate it, get out. If you aren't sure, don't take what every one says at face value. If you love it, share the love.
I have never seen so much misery in one place among so many people. It's contagious. Please do yourself and all of us a favor and try to find some happy thoughts. You might just find you enjoy yourself, and your career, a lot more.
My ex was wealthy and I was sooo miserable
without going into detail, I will say my health suffered from being with a man whom I sensed did not love me in a deep fashion. That fact cancelled out the 9,000 sq foot home (attached 4 car garage), 2400 cash allowance monthly, the need for me not to work, vacations to exotic places and luxury cruises twice each year, a walk in close the size of my present bedroom. But, you know, I was so lonely. At least with your husband, you will have a man who loves you when you are old. I left that life to nothing, zip, lost my place in MT world after 20 yrs and had to start all over, his attorneys royally screwed me and yes, I was so poor I was hungry, sold all those clothes at second hang consignment shops and begged someone to hire me (MQ at 0.06 cpl). I had dogs so had to buy a home which took every cent I had. Walked out with nothing in the end. I am happy but at 40, that scene is not one a person can go through without subsequent scars.
I am alone now. A fireplace is my company along with two cats. Seven years later, I am at peace finally but I really did let myself down by putting myself through the hell I lived trying to get my life back on track.
The secret to happiness is being thankful for what we have - I say that every day.
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.
Life is too short to be miserable
I am in this profession because I honestly love the work, and I love being an IC (setting my own work hours, being at home, etc.) I started out working for local doctors at home, then when that situation changed and I had to go to a company, I was blessed that I hit a good one first thing and have never had to experience a bad one. I am telling you all of this to hopefully encourage you. It is possible to be happy in this field, and there are good companies to work for. Life is too short to be stuck in a job where you are yelled at, bullied, and ready to throw in the towel. I hope you either start looking for a different MT job, or start pursuing another career - something that makes you happy.
Unless it is ongoing and to the point you are completely miserable!!
c
Right! It's pretty obvious who the miserable person is here!
Agree with oncology. Miserable stuff! nm
s
I am not miserable, I love my job, all is well with me, but gross tacky humor is just that.
z
Totally Special, totally HOT! NM
z
You are totally right.
You are totally right. It would be nice to be paid hourly for what we are worth but that probably will not happen but it is the Transcriptionist first priority in my eyes to make sure the report is accurate before how much they produce in one particular hour. I would never just put anything because I did not know just because I wanted to make more money that hour that is why it takes experience in this business to make any real income. I know when I started out, I made more money babysitting than I did transcribing but as you gain experience there is less and less you have to look up and then you begin to make a real income.
I totally
Some people just don't know how to leave well enough alone.
This is totally different than having
Many prisons have work release however, they would NEVER allow an inmate to handle the US mail. Sheesh!
totally....
I have been at this only two months and am bored already - its the isolation and the repetitive work I have. I have a clinic account with a small learning curve, so now my blanks are for the most part garbled words or medications that are unrelated to the specialty area. I'm still building up speed of course, but now getting distracted/bored/daydreaming is slowing me down. I count my blessings that the work is not that difficult but its a trade off.
I KWYM about short vs. long. I usually have 1-2min reports and that keeps me going but when I get a 7 minute one, especially if it is the person who talks very softly, pop goes the Diet Coke can!
I thought I would like working alone at home but now realize that I like to be around people. Funny the things you learn about yourself that fly in the face of what you think you are like.
I think I would be able to do better in house, but what I really want is contact with other human beings and a little more variety in my duties.
Empathizing right there with you.
The first one I get totally
My BF of one year does that. He does things that he knows irritates me because I have told him and then wonders why I get so upset with him. He might pinch me and I say stop about 5 times and it continues and I get totally ticked by then. Then he wonders why I am so angry all the time. Well DUH!
Totally
My worst experiences have been with Mom and Pops MT services...
Not sure totally following? sm
Just in case I'm not understanding, but seems okay to say ALL MTs; probably programmed so they can hit one key and it automatically goes to all MTs entered in this particular email function. Just like they have a feature where when on vacation you can have email sent "i'm on vaction, will return such and such time.
Using own email, I think we all do?? At least thought so.
totally
would like to know too!
i totally
understand where you are coming from but I also understand their point. They have burnout!
Totally
I totally agree with Kyrie
it totally seems like they try!
like they know i'm in here (trying to be) working and they rev up the leafblowers on purpose! i think they might have heard me yell SHUT UP GO AWAY!!! one day
We Must Have Totally -
See, I don't equate "great pay" to "great company." I've made more money at other jobs yet been completely miserable for one reason or another. I've found that I would much rather make a litle less and actually enjoy what I'm doing. While I do consider salary when accepting a position (obviously, otherwise I'd be a total moron), I put a little more weight on benefits, flexibility, communication, my level of interest, and other areas rather than excusively on salary.
I never look on it as a threat to anyone's job security, mine or my colleagues, if I praise an employer and suggest someone apply there. I figure if that person can get past the resume and interview process and ultimately land a job, it's up to me to be at the top of my game to ensure my job security. I expect my colleagues to all be at the top of their games as well.
I am, however, one of those annoying people who politely declines to give any of my friends a job reference unless I know first-hand that they're 110% qualified for the position and share my work ethic and dedication. I'm always fearful of recommending someone and that person, no matter how much I may think of them on a personal level, turns out to be a professional disappointment, then my credibility would be questioned in the eyes of my employer. I guess I'm just as paranoid in this particular area as you are in the area of sharing OP reports or the name of your employer.
That's what keeps life interesting, all of us having different attitudes, perspectives and expectations.
Thanks for the conversation...I always enjoy seeing different viewpoints.
I use ones that go totally over the ear - sm
I cannot stand anything else, and as I have the hearing of an owl I can hear just fine what is going on around me, obviously muted somewhat, but this way I can hear my doctors just fine. I use Maxell NC-II, about $30 at Wal-mart or on-line. First pair lasted a couple years, my next only about 6 months, on my 3rd set now. Very comfy though, though get ear zits now (4-6 a year) and then, guess from the sweat, etc. of having them on a lot, that part sucks.
I totally agree
This is a 10-year-old girl, not a mass murderer. She is in a lot of pain, having suffered a most significant loss, and is trying to reach out, not always in positive ways, but the flowers are wonderful. Where they came from does not matter. PLEASE do not read anything nefarious into her actions.
She needs help, and smiles, and maybe a hug when she is ready.
Fear is a terrible thing, particularly when it turns normally rational folks into masses of paranoid jelly. I despise that we have come to this.
I agree with you totally, thank you!
Not when I'm totally concentrating....sm
But if I get to the end of a report and realize my mind has been wandering, I'll go back and read the report. It's usually fine, which makes me realize that after 30 years it's rote. But I wouldn't take a chance.
You are totally freaking me out.
Same name, same lettuce, same wine, same seafood for dinner. Are we living in a parallel universe, or are you stalking me? Don't tell me, you grew the lettuce in your garden yourself?
I totally agree with you..
I have been editing work that would just BLOW YOUR MIND. On top of mispelled and misused words, we have bad grammar and punctuation and then typing something different than what the doctor says and if you read it, it doesn't make sense. For example, I cam across this yesterday, "which was done when he was very-very young apparently a ditch is inspected." He actually said "which was done when he was very, very young. Apparently, it did get infected." I come across contractions, etc. This gal actually argued that her scores are always 98%. There were so many redlines on her work, I might as well have scrapped it and typed it myself. I don't know if this is due to schools or not, but when I was a newbie, I don't remember making that bad of mistakes!!!
Thank you, I agree totally
Get over it already. They cheated you, are cheating you. You MUST like it if you stay and continue to be treated that way. How many other MTs have had a bad job???? Trust me you guys at MQ are NOT the only ones. There are TONS of jobs out there. Go get one, that is what the rest of us do. Go do it.
I so totally agree sm
I posted my resume on MT Stars a couple of years ago and, like you, I was flooded with calls. The company I selected, I didn't even know existed. I have been a very happy camper for 2 years, plenty of work, decent pay, great tech support, wonderful people who make you feel like "family." Best move I ever made.
I think maybe the reason why people keep allowing themselves to be used and abused by companies with sporadic work is the known versus the fear of the unknown factor. Believe me, the stress of starting a new job is small potatoes compared to never knowing you will have enough in your paycheck to cover the bills!
I totally agree with you!!
I have stuff come up on my screen that just blows me away. Most of it could be fixed if they just read over their work and saw that the sentences do not make sense.
VERY WELL SAID!! Totally agree with you!!
x
wow! totally speechless
OMG! I can totally relate to this.
My stepgrandfather has suddenly started pulling this crap with me. He's an older man in his early 80s. He's been in my life for almost 20 years. Suddenly, he wants to hug me tightly, give me slobbery wet kisses on my mouth, and all sorts of stuff. He nuzzled me in my ear during a bearhug and asked me if his cologne turned me on. He's slapped me on the backside, too. I wonder if it's not some form of dementia or confusion from alcohol or something. It just makes me so uncomfortable to have ANY man do that to me, with the exception of my husband. I've been avoiding him for over a year now. I won't be alone in the same room with him. I told my Mom and my husband about it. Everyone just blows it off as a "harmless old man" or "he was just drunk and teasing you". I know about boundaries and standing up for myself, but it's just really tough when other people think it's "nothing" or that I'm "overreacting".
Totally disagree
Only because I have a neighbor in her 50s, she's tall, still thin, not a wrinkle, so obviously she has kept herself up. Its not about age, but about wearing the right clothes for the right shape. She wears tanks, and also long form fitting dresses, very stylish and i've also seen her wear shorts. I hope to look so good when i'm in my 50s. Of course if she were out of shape, dying her hair the wrong shade and wore black eye liner, it would be a whole different story. 50 is supposedly the new 30. But if you have as great of a figure as you did in your 20s as you do in 50s, show a little of it off, we don't die once we reach the age of 40!
I TOTALLY agree with you...
What looks cute and hip on a 20-year-old just looks cheap and classless on a 50-year-old. I'm 45, so I'm not some young thing poking fun at middle-aged women. Older women can look very classy and actually YOUNGER if they "dress their age" and by that I don't mean mumurs and bedroom slippers or stretch pants and sack-like tops. When I dress up I might wear a nice tailored pinstriped suit or something like that. I do NOT go out in anything from the junior department. There's a reason for "junior" clothing and it's not size, it's the style of fashion. To all the women who disagree with you, I'm afraid the notion that older women look young and cute in daisy dukes, a belly shirt, and a navel piercing comes from those who dress that way " thinking" they look hot, not necessarily the opinion of others in general.
I totally agree with you. sm
We never went on vacation with our kids and left them with grandparents to come back and find out that our own lack of parenting resulted in somthing that our own kids may have been doing behind our backs all along.
Give me a break. Blame it on gramma? How about staying home with your kid and taking a good look around to realize that he's the one that's hiding things, not your MIL.
There is obviously a lot of hatred between DIL and MIL here.
Message for you mom, "get a grip." This stuff doesn't all happen because their at gramma's for the week. You're obviously doing something wrong here. Forget your "vacations." and your "rules" and be there for your kids. Teenagers LIE. It's been going on for centuries.
You can go on "vacation" when they're all grown up and gone. By the sounds of your message, I would say the sooner they go, the better.
THIS IS TOTALLY UNCALLED FOR!
How rude!
I agree totally.
sm
I totally agree! Thank you!
The people who are criticizing seem to think that the president can just snap his fingers and immediate help will appear. There are people all over the country who are going there to help, donating money by the thousands, etc., and nobody says anything positive about that. Nobody could have predicted a disaster such as this and it takes time to get things rolling, but it IS being done.
I totally agree
Many physicians, young and old, are not on the technology coat tails. They have absolutely no interest in changing the way they do things. I think that as long as using this technology does not become an across the board required mandate by some governing agency, transcriptionists will be in high demand until doomsday.
totally agree
!!
I know. It's totally pathetic already
It would be comical if it weren't so tragic. I have never seen anyone with such low self esteem. She has to come on here and browbeat people who aren't even complaining. Then she wants to brag(?) that she made $200 in NINE hours???? I do feel sorry for her, but I am getting really sick of listening to her venom.
Totally agree with you
He always was respectful and nice to everyone, a good guy but when he sang, it was a different Marty. I only tuned in to see him perform and then would change the channel. He reminded me of an Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam when he sang with so much angst. Loved it!
I totally agree. sm
I used to be married to a hunter. The whole idea felt wrong to me and I hate guns. I haven't had to deal with hunting or guns for 20 years now.
I'm sure I will get blasted by some NRA people for saying I hate guns, but oh well. 
i agree totally
I have taught children who were mainstreamed in 5th grade who wanted to do extracurricular activities. Social skills are lacking. Around here, they test them and sometimes they have to be put in a lower grade. Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and look within. Some behavioral problems are learned responses to what is going on at home. What is the attitude towards authority in the home? See other avenues.
|
