words of encouragement

• How much do I need to buy to get started as an MT? - newbieneedshelp
  • MT Costs - working925
    • working 925 - newbieneedshelp
  • What specialty will you be doing? - Misha
  • Congratulations! - clhmt
    • Thank you for that! - newbieneedshelp
  • Anything you purchase for your transcription - use, you can also write off.
  • Yes to some extent, obviously you need to have a computer - sm -
  • Why would you buy office furniture before you have a dedicated PC? - nm
  • No experience at all in transcription? - Gloria
    • What a sweet story... sm - hear tell
      • It can be done! - newbieneedshelp
      • It can be done! - newbieneedshelp
    • Gloria, it can be done--I did it! - Hayseed
      • Hayseed; I luv ya! - newbieneedshelp
        • What I had to buy... - Hayseed
          • just the fact that you said "frig" - newbieneedshelp
            • You WILL get there! - Hayseed
              • Eeeeyyyooommmeeee! - newbieneedshelp
              • Let me share with you.... - Gloria
                • From all the posts I have read on this site... - Hayseed
                  • Well, then doesn’t apply to me, just - Gloria
                    • What is a major bummer is... - Hayseed
                      • Apply for a medical secretarial position, which almost always includes transcription in the job desc - lynn
                      • I started work for 1 company this past - Gloria
    • getting started as an MT - newbieneedshelp
      • What I think would be helpful is - Gloria
        • Need to know what your doing - newbieneedshelp
          • Practice tapes from? - Gloria
            • practice tapes from... - newbieneedshelp
              • Working probably longer than you have - Gloria
  • It's wise to dedicate one pc solely - lynn
    • getting started - newbieneedshelp
  • It is normal to have to purchase your own - equipment unless the company you work for
    • purchasing mt equipment/filing taxes...& getting started, Help? - newbieneedshelp
      • Most say to put about a third - of your paycheck aside to pay taxes.
        • thanks; wonder why some are so bleak - newbieneedshelp
          • Just read the posts and you should see - SuziQ
            • Ahhh, so you've chosen to work for a service - that does not pay very well. sm
              • Well put SuziQ - nellieship
                • Whoops! Was agreeing with post by sm! - nellieship
              • I am estatic with how I work now, the pay, etc - SuziQ
      • Getting started as MT and looking up every other word? - SuzieQ
        • I'll say this again, tears are NOT necessary. Determination is. As well as a sound intellect. sm - lynn
          • THANK YOU! - newbieneedshelp
        • It would be no different for her - than a newbie out of these six week courses
          • words of encouragement - newbieneedshelp
            • That is the right way to think. - Also, you will not need unlimited long distance
              • Thanks! - newbieneedshelp
          • Not working in surgery but - SuzieQ
    • Reference Books - sodiepop

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I have started sending out my resume and a letter to local clinics.  I'd love to go back to college and become an RN, but we don't have any local universities.  I do plan to do it once the kids are all in school... I'll be 34 years old at that time, but better late than never.  ;)

It is hard to work with 3 toddlers but I manage.  I would be doing very early morning and/or late nights.  Lucky for me if I get 4 hours of sleep I'm good.  Still applying and still hoping for a bite.  It's encouraging to know it's not just me.  I've been starting to wonder if I'm horrible at my job. 

I quit 15 days ago and have not really had that hard a time. The first couple of days were rough but it hasn't been that bad since. I was going to use the patch but decided to quit cold turkey.

Just remember that the cravings only last a few minutes and are gone before you know it. Do something to distract yourself while they pass.

I have found this website to be helpful: www.quitnet.com It is free for a basic membership and they will send you a daily email showing how many hours of life you have saved, how much money you have saved and how many cigarettes you have not smoked. I have found it to be very motivating. Here is another helpful thing to keep handy: http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact11.html

Most importantly remeber NOPE (Not One Puff Ever). No matter what don't smoke.

Best of luck to you in your healthy new life!

I had the feeling that I'd never learn these particular doctors... for one thing, the dictation was not clear and sounded like he was in a bucket or something.. Had that quality about it that makes me not be able to catch things. I was almost in tears, not to mention blowing my line count. I even had a sample to go by, but still couldn't understand. You know, if you can't hear it, you certainly can't transcribe it... sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher, only in another language! LOL!  Again, thanks.

I feel like there is no where to go but on my own for the best money, my current service has gotten real strange on me all of a sudden and with 24 years of experience, there is nothing I cannot transcribe accurately when spoken reasonbly well.  I am not the sole wage owner at this point, am I just want this as an option, I work backup for 2 services.  Sorry about your mom's loss, I lost my grandma this year on my birthday, that is when my other service decided to make me prn.  I have my mom with me too and I had to do part of the euology, host the repast, etc.  because of the time I took off, they basically fired me

Since there have been so many changes in MQ, I am the same way on accounts I am unfamiliar with.  I notice how quickly I can type even difficult reports on my primary, and then even when I get an easy dictator on the other accounts, I still am not do not do as well. 

You will get better as times go on.  You are just nervous and understandably want to do well.  I bet in a few more months, you will feel right at home and doing just as well as you wanted. 

I wish you well in your new job.

I used to frequently get discouraged about the pay I was(n't) making, until I started looking at it from a different perspective, and it has helped me double my paychecks.

I think of all the positions I have worked in in the past, where I was grossly overworked and underpaid, and I would have given an arm for the opportunity to be paid more based on how hard I worked, and how much I focused.  Of course, in salaried jobs, you can work until you are blue in the face, and generally, you'll make as much as you will on a day where you just can't get moving.  Since I've always worked hard, I try to think of being paid on production as a positive thing.  I am in control of my income.  If I really work and focus, I can reward myself by having higher paychecks.  When all is said and done, if I'm not making the money I'd like to, it's no one's fault but my own.  The good thing is, I don't have to wait to find a better job or wait for my boss to notice me to change that.  I just buckle down and set some goals, and get there myself!

Also, thanks for the half-goal idea.  When I notice my numbers slipping, I use a "Power Hour" where I have to get the highest number I know I am capable of.  I keep making myself do those, until I hit that high number, and then I can go get coffee or switch the laundry or whatever.  Even when I don't hit that number for 2 or 3 tries, I've increased my production over those hours I was trying, so it helps quickly bring my numbers up.

Now, speaking of that... I've gotta go do one.   Thanks again for the tips and encouragement.

Somebody recently mentioned a site where you can go and put a * in the part of the word that you can't get.  Example: 

ap*ectomy = appendectomy.

Can you tell me again where this site is?  It's sooooooooo helpful!!

Thanks!  

I am afraid that's one of my problems--thinking I'll wait until the end but then forgotting.  I am trying really hard to pay attention to every detail and then just be confident and let it go! 

many posts asking for help with words or phrases that are clearly in reference books that most MTs should have.  Don't MTs buy their own reference material anymore or do they rely strictly on the internet.  Most the words and phrases asked about on the Word Board could be found just by buying the medical phrase index or the Surgical Word Book or some of these other word books and building up a reference library. 

What happened to building up the library and searching and learning?  I just looked at some of the Word Help stuff tonight and a lot of it is ridiculous stuff that an MT could very easily find.

Any opinions?  Im not talking about blanks where you just can't understand what they are saying.  I am talking about specific instruments and phrases.  Seems like it happens an awful lot and MTs don't want to search or maybe don't know where to search or don't know what reference material is out there to buy?

Lots of this stuff could be found in just the two books I mentioned above.  Just curious