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riding the back country horseback with my dog and taking photos.

Posted By: sm on 2009-04-01
In Reply to: Describe your dream job in one sentence. (anything goes; it's a dream job.) - Octo-MT

OR, if MTing 2-3 hr a day and having time to do all the things I never can because i'm working.


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taking photos after ceremony, before reception

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Not just taking 1 vacation but when I get back
from my own personal trip, then hubs and I will go to Las Vegas for a few days. He travels so does not want to go on the trips I love so I travel solo and then I will "let" him go with me. My pay does not average up to the per hour as yours but I have worked so long now and only have the monthly utilities to pay so everything else is icing on my cake. I love Disney, by the way- we have some unused tickets to go back whenever.
Thank you for taking the time to post back....sm
I'm sure he must be depressed, and my brother also. I'll bring up the subject to him and see if I can make him see that they are really needing some outside help here, more than we can do just as family members.  You bring up a lot of good points.  Thanks again. 
Ditto, doing 23 minutes of a Dr. I hate right now.....taking forever....well back to it - nm
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have any horseback riders here lost their nerve

after being hurt and got it back again?  i have no problem getting on as long as all goes well, but when my horse spooks or something i feel so danged unnerved, which is totally new to me after all these years.  does it just take time or should i hang it up? 


They better have SE because no way is my insurance riding on the BS they pull with no work all the
time. They can hang you out to dry with that 12,000 line deal unless you work 24/7 lately. No way does my health insurance ride of that deal.
I'm a broken record but I'm riding the train too
I'll just work as a nurse AND run my MTSO until the train falls off the track.
I have looked at a lot of those photos before and I
thinking maybe it had something to do with the type - brand/style implant, or the amount of fat the breast had to begin with to cover up the shape, or SOMETHING.  But I would just die if I ended up with round things instead of breasts!
Digital photos

Does anyone know how to cut and past digital photos to the computer and email them through Windows XP?


A friend walked me through this the other day, creating a DCIM pictures folder. I connect the camera to the CPU, view the pictures, but do not know how to get them into the "pictures" folder for keeping and emailing.


Thank you very much.


What? Does Kenny need Viagra? Too much riding on a bumpy tractor?? nm
:)
first rule in riding school was: Learn how to fall...
no really. learn to tuck and curl up, and roll if you get bucked or thrown off. never ride alone.

horses sense fear; if you show it, or your voice even has one iota of fear in in, forget it, your horse will take control over YOU and have you doing what he/she wants.

use simple commands with a confident strong voice. show the horse respect and the horse will also respect you.

try bareback; it really gives you a chance to 'bond.' do you own the horse or are you just riding a different horse each time at a stable?

you need a relationship with the animal as well. groom them, show them affection, but NEVER let them have the upper hand.

when I first got my horse she used to throw me all the time. she would even throw her head so far back it would almost hit me. no one would ride her but me, but after a lot of time and patience (think of them as a 2-year-old child) they will come around. they need to trust you...

by all means, you must get right back on, if they do throw you or 'spook.' my sister had an ex-race horse, thoroughbred, who spooked at his own shadow, literally. I never did warm up to him, but he was like a one-person horse...

how lucky you are, I miss riding so much!
I'd get the riding mower fixed pronto, granted - sm
push mowing 3 acres is probably great exercise, but it must be a bit time consuming. I used to cut 1.3 acres and it would take about 60-90 minutes on a riding mower, and that is with a house and pool in the way; can't imagine how long it takes to push mow 3 acres.
moderator, is there a way to copy photos
I just got the funniest forward and wanted to share it.
I got a print out with color photos of my
colonoscopy integrated into the dictation.  It's already here in the US
Have you seen photos of the tangled mess of
What an incredible MESS. To think that valuable, often sensitive personal information travels through that knotted mess made me nervous even BEFORE the attacks in Mumbai. And now the risk those records face there makes me nauseous. It's a huge U.S. security and/or identity-theft breach just waiting to happen.
My favorite moment on a soap was years ago when Hope was marrying someone else and Bo came up riding
on his motorcycle to break up the wedding and take her away.  I always thought that was the most romantic thing in the world!  My favorite was the Christmas episodes when Mrs. Horton would put up the Christmas tree bulbs of all of the family members and it was basically like reliving the old episodes.
Sexy actress photos adv. at bottom... what's next Spheris NM
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Photos in today's NYPost show pumps in Brooklyn up over 3.00 a gallon, way over! nm
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With short arms, I need chair with shallow seat, good back support and high back. Want arm rests
:+
OK! I'm glad you're back down here. Now don't go back up there and read those evil posts ag
Okay? But I have to leave you now, sadly. Thousands of noble dictating doctors are anxiously awaiting my help with their "dictations"....They're all loading up on chips, drinking lots of soda so they can burp, and then have to go to the bathroom...You know the routine! Off I go to earn some pennies!! But, truly, I am thankful that I have a job!
PS.. It apparently worked..I heard back and already submitted the paperwork back.

I'm not sure how many people they are hiring but you shouldn't stress too hard over it. Do the best you can.


This country has....
more safety nets than almost anywhere else on earth.  There are food stamps, WIC, food pantries, missions, churches, etc.  I don't believe there are policies in place to purposely make sure children go to bed hungry.  There MUST be some personal responsibility here.  I don't hear much out of you along that line, just blame. CEOs, big corporations, blah blah blah
what right do we have to tell another country what to do?
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What Country do you come from?
You don't sound like you come from the USA.
Isn't this the same country that
our young men gave their lives for back in the 60s and early 70s, in order to fight communism, and now is a communist country? These greedy companies would send work to a Taliban country if they thought they could save a buck! They are causing the downfall of the USA.
You have obviously never BEEN to a 3rd world country.
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R we talking about the same country???
He's cut everything from education to welfare to finanal aid to.....and so on ad nauseum...read a paper now and then.
Most of the people in this country
Are way too dependent on the government to save them and are looking for a free handout. While I have sympathy for those whose homes have been destroyed, I agree that you should have some sort of a back-up plan of water, canned goods, etc., to prepare for an emergency. This is just common sense. We had really bad fires in Arizona this year and I was prepared and ready to leave if I had to and didn't wait around for somebody to come rescue me. People need to be more self reliant and not wait for somebody else to take care of them. The hurricane victims had plenty of time to stock up on canned goods, water, etc., before the hurricane hit. I have relatives in Florida and they had to evacuate, but they had planned ahead and had canned food and water ready for when they came back, as they knew there would be nothing available. I think Kennedy's quote of-- Ask not what your country can do for you-- would be very appropriate in this day and age when everybody stands around waiting for a free government handout. These people would never had made it as pioneers----.
Maybe someone else in another country is typing it?

Yes, the dumbing-down of our country.
the 5 freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment but can name all the characters of the Simpsons? We need to get off the couch, turn off the boob tube and read a book once in a while. I love my country, but we aren't doing ourselves any favors by being stupid.
Oh like she was fat! That's what's wrong with this country.
And I'm not an overweight angry person....just in case you want to bash. I am actually fit but I don't agree with the mentality about weight in this country. My niece is 15 and a little bit overweight so I'm sensitive to it. What are you, anorexic? Please!
Then we have a problem in THIS country because...

The statistics show that a full TEN PERCENT of American 10-year-old boys are on ADHD medications.  That isn't even counting the girls.  I think when you include the girls the percentage of kids on ADHD medications approaches 20%.  So if it's true that about 3% to 5% of people actually have ADHD (I can buy that), then we are over diagnosing and over medicating way too many kids.  More often than not when I type an office note about a kid on ADHD medications the doctor also mentions some kind of turmoil in the home, i.e. divorced parents, kids living with grandparents.  I once helped out on a field trip for my daughter when she was in 2nd grade and it was like a mobile hospital what with trying to keep up with which kid got what pill at what time throughout the day.  It was ridiculous.


What part of the country are you in?
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I don't know what part of the country...
you live in, but around here you can hardly get into a restaurant, the malls are FULL of people so that it's hard to park, and the BIG trucks and SUV's just keep roaring past me.  Outsourcing has been going on for 30+ years... People adjust their careers, oro something else pops up that out does somebody else's idea.  Nothing stays the same, you gotta change with the times.  Many outsourced jobs are low skill jobs that Americans want to be paid big money to do... Well guess what, it isn't going to happen.  So get yourself another career.  I've had THREE of them myself.  I've been a nurse, a commercial lines insurance rater (that all went computerized), and now I'm an MT.  What good does it do to sit here in cyber space moaning and groaning about something that's been going on for decades and isn't going to stop no matter how much you complain. 
No, they are on the other side of the country
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It's all about greed in this country. sm
We need to figure out how much in the way of tax revenue (from the reduced income of MTs and from the MTSOs) that is lost because of offshoring. That might get someone's attention. They obviously don't care about our privacy.
Has anyone ever moved to another country and kept their job? sm

I want to know this because my fiancee is in the military and will be going to the UK for a few months and I want to go with him but keep my job.  Is this even possible?


Thanks


At least in this country the bad guys can be -
I guess that, as with everything else these days, something really BAD is going to have to happen as a result of offshoring personal info. before anyone will do anything about it.
Seems like everything in this country is for sale
nowadays. Property owned by people who aren't US citizens. Ancient west coast redwoods being cut up and sold to Japan for lumber. And of course good U.S. jobs. And the lesser jobs, the ones are taken by people who have sneaked over our borders. I wonder who is going to pay the country's taxes 20 years into the future.
If you get more per line in your own country, then
That doesn't make sense.
Our Jobs, Our Country
- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery (or offshoring of jobs), I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln

- Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

- The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Woodrow Wilson

- Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Theodore Roosevelt

- America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

- Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Calvin Coolidge

- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland

- It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Rutherford B. Hayes

- True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

- Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Theodore Roosevelt

- There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to ... remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

- It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.

Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981

- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

Ronald Reagan

- The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.

Ronald Reagan
It depends on the country.
I worked for Club Med for a few years in the 80s and worked closely with the European-born French, Spanish/Mexican and Germans. The Spanish people are truly grateful when you merely attempt their language. The Germans are pretty helpful if you make a mistake but they all know English as it is required in school. The French, however, are very strict. I found this when I worked with the Club Med administration in the Caribbean, Mexico, and especially in Paris. I took four years of French in high school, know French diction pretty well, but was still corrected with Every mistake I made, and several times (in all countries) was told to not even try if I couldn't speak it perfectly. That is my experience, and I'm allowed my opinion as it has been proven in many countries. My point about the Indian MDs is that they were not trained here, or they would have been corrected in their use of some English. Some of it can also be legally misinterpreted. There was actually a "medical" school in St. Lucia in the Caribbean (next to Club Med). Many Americans attended it. They couldn't get into the mainland-based medical schools. It also used to be hard for foreign-trained doctors to practice here. My point was that it's a shame that we have to suffer with these doctors, not just us but those poor patients.
Good to see you too Country MT. I have OCD...

usually under pretty tight wraps, but today, not so much.  Going through a stressful time with a friend and, well, any sort of stress does me in.  So, whenever I have days when my name is all over the board, that's one of those days that I lose control of my OCD.  I'm hovering today, checking in often, just itching to say hello to someone, anyone, to help ease the mental and physical burden of what has transpired in the past few days.  Blech.  I hate it when I get like this, as I'm sure others do, but I can't help myself.  Could be worse I guess.  I could be like one of those poor people who cut or something. 


I'm sorry, what was the question now? 


My old country homes
In my home in Iowa, I have Hughes Net and seemed to do okay with it, although, as noted, lag times are a bit more than true broadband/high speed. At my SO's home in Missouri, it comes from some rinky-dink company called Midwest Data Center, although I'm sure they must get their feed from somewhere else. Again, for general surfing there is only a minimal lag time between page loads. However, when working via a VPN, I have had prolonged waits during anything that involves swapping data with the outlying mainframe. This would be cc's, demographics, and final saves on ExText and a couple other proprietary sites I've used. Being production oriented, if you get a lot of short 1-3 minute reports, the wait times really start to add up paycheck-wise. I'll also note that I've had very little trouble with audio files, although, again, a 25 minute report is going to take a bit longer to download than a DSL customer is used to. There have been a few VPNs over the years that I was not able to connect to at all and had to use my standby dialup; however, somehow they for the most part self-corrected in the last six months or so and now I can go pretty much anywhere I want to stick my little VPN. Hope this helps!
Which is why this country will lose its
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What part of the country...?

if you do not mind my asking.  I live in an expensive part of the country myself on the west coast. 


I was asked to find comparable rates. 


 


Thanks again.


It is a free country here, you know!
Everyone here complains! So get over it!
s/l "Louiss" country?
Just getting back into MT after a 3 year break.  Seems to be the nonmedical terms that get me!  lol  This patient has lived in Thailand and is from "Louiss"  "ou" as in loud and "ss" as in kiss, accent on 1st syllable.  Any ideas?
yea we have it great in this country
just wait for the election and see how great it is after that
Working in another country?
Hi all, I've been an MT for over 5 years and hubby and I are casually throwing around the idea of spending a year or so overseas, ideally Scotland. Are there any companies out there that allow you to work from out of the country? I don't even know what all work visas, etc. I would have to get or if I could consider it more of an extended visit and still work for a US company, but didn't know if I would have to search for companies local to the country we'd be temporarily relocating to, or whether there were any that worked with outside of the US MTs that weren't in India. Any ideas on this?

Any info is appreciated. It may never happen, but I'd like to research it if I know where to start. Thanks!
I live out in the country and

I initially could only have satellite out here in BFE.  It cost me 60 bucks a month for mediocre service.  It was faster than dial-up but still not very fast.  You have to deal with the weather.  I went through Hughesnet and they have a broadband fair access thing where they only give you x amount of broadband per 24 hours and if you exceed that, your internet is so slow you might as well be on dial up and that lasts for 24 hours until your account rejuvinates itself.  It was such crap. 


We recently got AT&T out here.  We get local phone, unlimited long distance, and DSL internet including wireless throughout the house for like 65 bucks a month.  Way faster than Hughes.net ever was even on a sun shiny day with no clouds in the sky. 


We literally saved ourselves 50 bucks a month going through AT&T for our phone and internet services.