Down in the Dumps - Keep you chin up
Posted By: Fingers on 2009-04-16
In Reply to: Only honest answers please - down in the dumps
It sounds like you need to learn your weaknesses and go from there. Slow down. Concentrate. Dedicate some time to your efforts until they come naturally to you. Like the previous post said, spend a couple of days thinking, crying, down in the dumps, and then emerge a new person with a mission! Don't let something like this hold you back if you truly think you can do it and you want to do it. And remember, better a low line count with 100% accuracy than a big line count with too many mistakes. Concentrate on doing perfect reports and the rest will come later.
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Down in the dumps
I am really sorry you were let go. In this day and time, especially, that is really sad. I think the thing I would ask (and you do not need to answer on the board, just to yourself) is what kind of MT education do you have? That is key, I think. Could it be that you need to brush up a little? Maybe not, but the issue of background and education is the first thing that pops into my head when MTs have issues such as this one. I wish I could take you for a walk in Santa Monica and buy you a coffee or something. Hang in there. This too shall pass. Good luck to you.
Just Frustrated and down in the dumps....
I work for a National, everyone told me I would love this company, I am trying so hard and cannot seem to get the daily line count they want or that I want. I am using word Expander for the first time with this company and love it but sometimes, to me, it is a hinderence in getting your typing rhythm down, and sometimes it expands things that I did not want, so I pause, hesitate, delete, find what I am looking for etc. then go on, but again, my line count isn't what I thought it would be. I work Sun-Thu and on Sun and Mon I meet the line count but then they switch me over to doctors I've never had on Tue, Wed, and Thu and then my line count goes way down, trying to find reports, trying to understand the doc, and end up leaving blanks. I love being an MT, I just want to be able to pay my bills AND have some extra money to save....I guess I just wanted to vent....I know there are many excellent MTs out there, and Ill be replaced without hesitation, I just wanted to make this work. I've been doing it for 2 years and this is the first time I've had this problem. I don't do laundry while I work, I have a private room for my office and rarely leave the chair. I have not taken any time off and even worked holidays. Any ideas to increase my line count?
Let's try to keep our chin up now that the new accounts are starting
I have to work too but I'm trying to stay positive with the new accounts coming on today. I hope that the past month of low work will be just a blip in the overall scheme of things. I hope everyone from here on out will be able to get a lotta dough for the holidays - and the bills!
Did they at least have you tuck your chin as they threw you
Well, or under the RICKSHAW, in this case.
Sounds like MDI-MD and Transcend aren't as strange of bedfellows as I originally thought.
Seems the Q taught their protegees well and they're methods are still being practiced in full force.
My sincere apologies to all of you who just got hit with this. May things be brigher for all of us...AND SOON.
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