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Look, if you are single and don't have a man in your life - be GLAD! - Posted By: Mad as you know what Mine is so unbelievably selfish I could just kill right now. I am married, at home all day with 3 kids, WORKING....He goes out to eat every single day for lunch with his co-workers and friends, plays ball twice a week, went out LAST night for a friend's bachelor party and I just smile and tell him to have a good time. Today a close friend of mine wants me to go out tonight with her - just a little shopping and maybe some dinner. I call him to tell him that I AM going out tonight and he tells me no! hahaha He says he just has way too much to do around the house tonight and that he needs me there to watch the kids. Fine. So I told him I would hire a sitter. He gets angry and says, "Why don't you watch them?!" So I freak out and tell him he has no idea what I go through all day here with the kids and that I need a break and we end up getting into a huge fight. I just hate him sometimes. I really do. I already missed out on an all girls beach trip because he whined like a baby about me going for 2 days - says the kids would miss me too much. He just wants to have constant control over everything. Well, don't get too upset because ladies, I AM GOING! Trust me. I'm going. He can be mad all he wants. I don't give a XXXX "May his soul rest in heaven." - Posted By: CrankyBeach This was the last line of a death summary I just transcribed. That's a new one on me.... Anyone using Vista yet? Pros/cons over XP?nm - Posted By: My new computer has to have Vista :( nm nm Does anyone know of a place for online education or materials I can use at home for my second grader - Posted By: for summer school education? My second grader is really struggling through the end of school. I want to work with her over the summer so she is prepared for third grade. Our school district will only provide summer tutoring if the child has actually flunked. I am trying to prevent her from flunking. She is a B-C student and I want to help her maintain or acheive better than that. Her older sister is a straight A student, but I know every child is different. I am not trying to make her a straight A student, I just want her to get as much out of her lessons as possible. Does anyone know of a virtual learning site that will provide me with the correct materials to teach her over the summer? We live in a small town in the country in Ohio and we have no tutoring available unless i driver her about 50 miles one way! Thanks for any help! errors and omissions - thanks - Posted By: Betty Thanks to all who responded. I appreciate the help and advice. Need help on word board, please. TIA :) - Posted By: Thanks!
This is posted on the job board: - Posted By: elle ...7 cpl for a 65-char. line with room for increase. Please send resume and place "ESL MT" in the subject line. These are very difficult accents... Is this serious?? THAT is why there is nothing left to this profession. Applying for and accepting jobs like this is what has been the kiss of death for MTs. I hate to think what they would pay for non ELSs - 5 cpl? PA funny - Posted By: Happy MT Robin Retinoperitoneal lymph nodes. Are there lymph nodes in our eyes???????? Cool internet hobby. Give it a try! - Posted By: See msg Download Google Earth and you will have a blast. You can basically fly anywhere on earth that you want via satellite pictures and then zoom in from above. If you fiddle with the controls at the bottom you can actually tilt the view so that you actually feel like you're flying over at a low altitude. You can type in the address of your childhood home and fly right over. Also, check out some of the wonders of the world. Flying over Rome and the ruins is pretty good. The only problem is that if you're flying over a really green area or if the ground colors are a certain hue, it's blurry. I actually found a backyard swimming pool in Karachi, Pakistan. Whodathunk? I saw mention of it in an online newspaper and it's really fun. Work with only a year experience - Posted By: PT Well I'm looking for work .. I have a year experience, my current company is 3 cents a line ... ICK but I needed the experience.. HELP any hints.... Need a decent company... Wondering: Has anyone used Powerscribe with Instant Text? - Posted By: fixing to start a new acct Just wondering if anyone has used these two together. Thanks! Sleep Study - Posted By: Old MT Get this: I had an appointment with the doctor this coming Wednesday to discuss a sleep study. Last Wednesday 2/1/06, his office calls me wanting to know if I was coming in because I was late for my appointment, and I reminded her that it was not that Wednesday but this coming Wednesday and she remembers and admits she got it wrong. This morning same girl calls to remind me of my Tuesday appointment!!!! Went through the same thing again and then she says, "Oh, yes. It is Wednesday. Can you come in Thursday? He's going to get called to the emergency department!!!" Uhhhhh did I miss something or is she clairvoyant on emergencies? This is why I do not go to the doctor unless it is absolutely necessary. I guess he has a golf game lined up. What do you wish you had asked before taking your job? - Posted By: MT Hindsight is 20/20. We all know the basic questions about line rate and so on. Now that you're in your current job, what questions do you REALLY wish you had asked before taking it? (please, I'm looking for some serious specifics about numbers and hours and ASR-related questions). I know nothing about ASR and am wondering what questions are important to ask a recruiter. So please share! One important question I've learned to ask is whether I'm switched to part time status if I can't meet the line requirement. That's a biggie! Thanks, :) Gearplayer, Cyberplayer, ExpressScribe,Transcription Buddy, Stop/Start questions - Posted By: dixie When you work for yourself which voice player do you prefer? I have tried all of the above players and all of them seem to distort the voice when you slow it down. Why can't these players slow down files like the platforms MTSOs use? My husband is in withdrawal. We were on vacation last week and he missed the final 2 episodes!! sm - Posted By: Jack Bauer wanna be Is there any kind soul out there who recorded it on either VHS or DVD who could send me a copy???? I would pay shipping! He wants to go on ebay and "buy" it, but I told him that one of these kind ladies from mtstars will help him out! I personally have never seen the show. We were in another state visiting MY family and bless my husband's heart - I remember where we were last Monday night - sitting in my aunt's living room in the middle of no where in Oklahoma. Poor guy. He was so kind and nice, but I bet the whole night he was really upset because he knew he was missing THE SHOW of the decade! I had no clue this was going on....LOL Any takers????? That is total bullcrap that Chris got - Posted By: voted off of American Idol!!!! What a total shock!!!! I can't believe he is going home. Chris rocked the house. I actually predicted him to win!!!! How sad. I guess my vote now turns towards Taylor. Need fast skills update - Posted By: Frizzing Need books/tapes to upgrade skills to do acute care work. Any advice on materials I can purchase. Going back to school is not an option right now. What percentage productivity gain do you get with InstanText? - Posted By: samsa Am thinking of switching. I currently get 400% productivity with SH8 (it types 3 characters for every 1 I type). Can anyone out there get similar figures with InstanText? Not the OP below but - Posted By: dorothy am also getting ready to sell my house, just curious, has anyone ever sold their home to one of those places that buys homes quickly? If so was it a reasonable price and a good experience or a nightmare? With all the complaints sm - Posted By: MT 30+years and running about not making enough money (and I agree that wages are getting really bad), how many folks that are complaining have less than 5 years experience. Five years is the minimum, in my opinion, that ANYONE should have before attempting to do any kind of MT at home. It takes at least that amount of time to feel comfortable with acute care. Even after five years, when you start working at home, by yourself, isolated from other MTs, it is very difficult. Years ago, it use to be mandatory you had 5 years in-house before a national or anyone else would hire you to work at home. The "troublemakers" in this industry are the so-called schools who have come on the scene making big promises about huge yearly incomes after 3-6 months training! It takes years and years of active MT to be able to feel comfortable working at home and be comfortable with all or nearly all work types. The attitude of not wanting to do OPs or other type reports, or ESLs or bad dictators, etc. etc is one of the things killing our credibility.. This is not about PRODUCTION! This is about patient care! If an MT wants to only do what suits that MT, i.e. certain work types to make more money, then the person is in the wrong business. I am sure I am going to get flamed over this, but I don't care. I am sick to death of hearing the complaining about dictators, job types, work hours, etc. If you are a MT, especially IC, you work when the work is there, you get all kinds of stuff and you take the good with the bad and you work long hours. Its a part of the job! If you have less than five years experience and you are just starting to work at home, coming out of in-house setting, then you are a BEGINNING IC and you will be offered bottom wages. But, if you prove yourself, hopefully, eventually your employer will pay you more. If that employer does not, then you can go to another employer, with your experience and try to get more pay. If you think coming out of school and demanding top wages or working 3-4 years, esepcially NOT in acute care and getting top wages is possible, it is NOT. I am also sick of those knocking those of us who have years and years of experience doing what I call "hard time" in this business. We have done it, we leraned our trade and we can make the money. You have to come up the same way. Now I will sit back and wait for the fall-out, I am sure it will happen!
Automatic spacing in shorthand? - Posted By: grasshopper Does anyone know how to set up 2 spaces after a period and 2 spaces after a colon in ShortHand version 10? One poster here said that this: {@@key Bksp}. worked and it did not work for me. It worked once and then it erased the last letter as it put in the spaces. Also Microsoft Word 2000 doesn't seem to have a spacing feature unless I am not looking in the right spot. Wish I had IT as everyone says that is a no brainer to use and setup. TIA.
x versus X - Posted By: Anne Davis I need to know if it should be x or X. IE 8 mm X 7 mm.
I'm gonna seem picky here... - Posted By: Recipe/idea help... Anybody have any ideas for appetizers that are simple, quick, and relatively cheap? I know I'm particular, but I'm not a good cook, don't have much time or money!! This is just for a card game, so I don't want anything extravagant anyway. Thanks bunches! I type a lot of letters, would Dragon 10 Preferred be something that would work well? - Posted By: MT'ing ...kind of Does anyone know if the Dragon 10 Preferred would work for just typing letters? I was thinking of investing in that product but worry that it may be a complete waste. Anyone hear or experience this particular product?
Suggestions for PC, just used for downloading, - Posted By: email, etc? Thanks.
So very sad watching this - Posted By: GaPeach Sitting here watching Animal Channel and the tribute to Steve Irwin. My heart is still crying. His wife, Terri, looks so grief stricken. What a loss. eMTS or Electronic Medical Transcription Services - Posted By: nn Anyone work for them or know anything about them?? ARGH!!! - Posted By: frustrated I'm sorry I'm just frustrated at the stupid nurse in the background that WON'T SHUT UP! She has a laugh like the chick on The Nanny and I swear she must be standing right behind the doc while he is dictating and I can't hear half of what he says and he's bad enough as it is! ESL and mumbles and stops in the middle of a sentence and then starts over somewhere else! I love working at home but sometimes I do miss having hens to cluck with in the office!! ChartNet to EXText - Posted By: soontobeTT Has anyone moved from Chartnet to EXText lately? If so, were you able to move your expansions to EXText? Awhile back there was a job posting for a typist to do closed-captioning TV show transcrips...sm - Posted By: just me does anyone know the name of that company? Any information would be appreciated. Wouldn't it be FUNNY if we could get Suze Orman - Posted By: to speak at an AAMT meeting? Especially if she were a "surprise"? My heart leaps just THINKING about that.... hehe. I have heard so much about - Posted By: MTing not being paid as much and wages dropping. But then I see others posting they are producing 300 or 400 LPH. Even at 7 CPL, that is 21 to 28 dollars an hour, which I think is a good wage. For Tech Support (or anyone else that knows!) sm - Posted By: MSMT I want to save my autocorrect entries so that when "tech support" starts monkeying around with the platform they don't delete them all like they did. How do I do that? I can't get them to save in Extext. Thanks! Macro expander - Posted By: grasshopper Have any of you used that new Windows Expanderex product advertised on this site? What kind of file does it use? Is it compatible with Shorthand? Sure wish they would make one available that isn't so expensive. Would like one for home use but don't want to spend over $100.
normals, templates, shorthand programs, etc - Posted By: tired fingers I was reading an earlier post that refers to companies making adjustments in our line counts because we are using these word expanders. I have been wondering about that because even using as many as I possibly can, it seems like it does no good. I do about as many lines as I would normally do just typing the darn things out. How are they making these adjustments, does anybody know and is it legal? Seems we have no standard anymore as to how lines are counted and companies are doing whatever the heck they want to us. Kinesis Keyboard or Microsoft - Posted By: Hjs I have been working on Kinesis Keyboards for 10 years and mine finally started to die. Has anybody went from Kinesis to the Microsoft Ergonomatic keyboard? I am trying to save cash but I am not sure if it would be worth the trade. Does anybody have any experience with this?
Totally not MT related but lots of smart people here for advice, I hope. - Posted By: just me My son had a girlfriend some 8 years ago, she ran off with another guy to another state and it really didn't hurt my feelings at all. They had gone through a lot in the less than a year that they were together including my son helping her cope with a rape trauma that she had been through. I wish truly I could remember the number of months between the rape and her leaving, but I felt it was a short time. That really doesn't matter, but 5 years ago this girl sent an e-mail telling us our son was the possible father of her child "you do the math" but she "really thinks the other guy is the father." My son called her and she was going to send paperwork but never did. Now jump forward to yesterday, my son gets notified via phone that she's looking for him, that she has his daughter, and we're really not sure what to do. The girl does not know where we or my son lives but knows the general area. I'm afraid she'll just show up on my doorstep one day but my son doesn't live here anymore, he's a man with a life of his own. What would you do? Does anyone know the legality of all this? Claiming.. - Posted By: Sage Just curious how this works? If I bought a new computer this last year, do I get to claim all of it on taxes or just a percent of it? I am an IC. Thanks! Mentorship Opportunities - Posted By: Danielle Hi there everyone! I am starting my 3rd semester of an MT program at a community college in September. I am really hoping I can find a mentorship, either now, or at the completion of my program in December. I really wouldn't mind if it was unpaid since I mainly would like to get some "real world" experience. Can anyone here point me in the right direction of a mentor/intern opportunity?? I just lost it w/my work, and I just don't do that. - Posted By: Hayseed I got put on a new account today with some hearing-impaired provider who has a language all their own. I'm not going to be PC either about this, when I say crap like that should be handwritten. I just wasted an entire hour and made about 10 lines trying to decipher it and I can feel my neck veins pulsating....all so some newbie can take over the accounts I was quite adept at, spent many hours creating normals for, and actually made a paycheck on. Grrrr.....I'm gonna go play squeaky wheel now because I'm genuinely peeved and that rarely happens!
computer monitors - Posted By: nannette kessler Any opinions on what the best type of monitor is for this work? I have a 17 inch flat panel--thinking about "upgrading"--is bigger necessarily better? What is the "easiest" on the eyes--or what can you add to the monitor to make it easier on the eyes?? thanks for any tips!
What companies are using Escription and what is the pay - Posted By: Curious I'm currently working on an Escription platform and love it, but my current job is always running out of work. I'm curious if other nationals are using it and what the rate of pay is. Thanks for any info!! |
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