"Old Timey" MT?
Posted By: RadGuy on 2005-10-24
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Just saw this on MT Jobs:
I don't need an "old timey" transcriptionist, I need "new age" with lots of computer experience as well as transcription experience.
Geez Louise - what is considered "old timey" and what is considered "new age"? These companies R becoming a joke.
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"Old Timey"
RadGuy, at last you and I agree on something!
Jennie
"OLD TIMEY MT AND NEW AGE MT"
GET WITH THE PROGRAM PEOPLE!!
Shame on all of you!! We no longer transcribe with the help of computers, guidelines, reference books or critical thinking! Your work station should be well defined - wireless, keyboardless, your crystals should be well placed in strategic, harmonic positioning so that your loaded brain can teleport the information in real time, your aromatherapy should be adjusted to the account you are working on at the time, and you should watch your astrological forecast for maximum speed and effect! Geez ... couldn't you figure that one out?
Obviously, from her post, us old timey's SM
are all losers with no education and no technical skills. Too bad. Guess who's the real loser.
she took out the Old Timey part now sm
and just has "new age." I sent her a note and used someones suggestion on here that she is using a subtle form of age discrimination? We will see what she says now. Oh yes, she changed it from no experience to 7 years experience! She has the nerve as "Cassie Long", sounds a little "Little Hourse on the Prarie" to me! haha
Ripe "old" age of 53!! ...sm
Oh, boy....... I wrote a long message about my inspiration (saw friend at gym who had lost 70 lbs. and didn't recognize her) and don't know what happened to my message .....something about validating my email (which was already validated). Anyway, don't get discouraged....just take it one day at a time and accept whatever amount you lose regardless of how small (I had weeks of only 1/2 lb. and sometimes none). It eventually adds up. Set small goals....I was only going to go for 20 lbs., then said 10 lbs. more, but now I am thrilled with 50!!
We "old people" were having trouble seeing it the way it was
Don't make fun of us, someday, God willing, you'll be geriatric too.
that's not "old" w/Nixon being pres....nm
Are you asking how to copy your "old shorthand" to new HD?
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Still using my "old" IBM keyboard purchased, I think, around 1990.
I totally panicked when it started going haywire & finally found a company that will repair them, have their own "clone" IBM's which aren't "too" bad, and also have the cord you were searching for.
I bought "their" clone while they repaired my original IBM, and it was pretty close to the touch of the original - but still just not the same. Then a few years ago, my son became aware of my dilema about searching for IBM keyboards -and, Geez - his company had one made by Lexmark back in their supply room - but without a cord -
If you're interested - try looking at http://pckeyboard.com/repair.html -- Repair services are through Unicomp out of KY - 1-800-777-4886, Jim Owens, Ext. 202.
I've been very happy with their service and I, personally, am surprised at what they charge. I purchased their "clone" & the cord for the IBM by Lexmark for $42.69, and their charge for repairing my original IBM was $35.44.
To, me - it's worth it!! Plus - their repair to my original didn't affect the "touch". They replaced key tops, corrected keys that were messed up, i.e., "s" key & others not working, replaced split "attached" cord - but didn't mess with my "feel".
Hate to admit how many "ergonomic" keyboards I've tried. Guess I'm just "too" old, set in my ways, & need my clicky-clack keyboard to keep my rhythm & fingers going.
If you're "old" enough you could go to the AARP free tax......
people at the library or wherever they are holding it in a town near you. Think you only have to be 55. I tried it this year and was very pleased. They are knowledgeable and up-to-date.
In the "old days" of dictation on vinyl belts, the quota was do to 15 minutes an hour. sm
To me, it seems realistic, but then again, each situation is different. On account I know, I can usually do 30 minutes an hour, although being money-oriented and paid by the line, I usually gauge things by lines. I do 250-300 lph, but those little dinky reports ARE an irritation -- no argument there -- hardly enter the header info and *poof* the dictation is over. Would be hard to make a decent line count that way.
But ... surely your employers understand there are variations on such things. Maybe you average 8.9 one month and 12 the next ... I would think it would even out.
Anyway, i'm into that gray zone where I know nothing about, but I wish you good luck. To me, in the days when I was supervisor, if I knew someone was doing the best they could do, that was all that mattered to me.
I don't have kids, but my Mom was from the "old school," and still had everyone, kids inclu
call her by her first name. The little neighbor girl next door from the time she could speak called her Aggie (my mom's first name), and they were great buddies until the day my mom pased away.
I don't think there really is much in a name, but more in the respect you are given and the way you are treated. Personally, I kind of cringe inside when someone calls me Ms. Anything or God forbid, "maam" (makes me feel like Methuselah!) ... I'm always just plain Merrie. :-)
But, as someone pointed out, to each his own. If you want to be addressed a certain way, you have that right, and people should respect that. I'm glad you corrected the child ... hope it "sticks." 
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