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My ideal job

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

Working for the county coroner's office transcribing autopsy reports with full county benefits.

I'm a total ghoul, huh? :-(


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My ideal MT job.

1.  CONSISTENT workload so I'm not sitting here on-call for free one day waiting for work, then working a double shift the next day to get it all done on time.


2.  CONSISTENT QA and feedback that doesn't change from person to person or week to week.


3.  Ability to specialize and use my Expander or normals so I can crank out the lines.  (Really, why wouldn't MTSOs want people assigned to certain accounts?  Then we'd all be making $30 an hour instead of fighting three accounts all with 500 dictators and hundreds of specialties and ESLs.  TAT wouldn't be an issue if we all could focus on one area and do it well.  Yeah, yeah, I understand about staffing issues and needing well rounded MTs, but this is my fantasy.)


4.  Excellent platform so I'm not wasting time looking up patient or physician info, swapping from screen to screen, or whatever.


The rest of that stuff is a given.  I won't work for a company that cheats me or pays late.


searching for the ideal..

I am soooo very anxious right now.  I have cried all morning and cannot seem to console myself or come up with a solution.  I have been doing transcription for over 12 years and have been home for the last four.  Through those four years, though I love being at home, I have come up with generally zip as far as contentment in my job goes.  I have been an employee status, as well as an independent contractor.  I have worked for places that seemed 'ideal' until 3 months or so were up, then they'd switch accounts on me (starting out on great accounts and leaving me struggling with a bunch of crud nobody in their right minds would want to do), dealing with owners or supervisors who lay out the 'heavy hand' and do nothing but tell you what you DO WRONG (one who comes to mind nearly gave me a nervous collapse--never could please her and who'd want to the way she treated you, sarcastic, mightier than thou approach).. ugh!  I have done basic four hospital transcription, clinic transcription, ER transcription, and I just am not finding 'THE BEST' place to be.  I don't know.. maybe I'm SUPER BURNED OUT.  I never make enough money, don't have benefits, and I'm getting to the point where I feel I'm just finished with this 'career.'  If I find a place where I make a decent amount of cash, I either have to put up with an idiot for a manager/ boss/ supervisor/owner or hideous dictation.  If I go to a place that seems good as far as dictation/accounts go, and the management is decent, I wind up making next to nothing in pay.  Most places I've experienced give you a come-on to begin with, give you a decent account and after two to three months, they switch you to the crap work.  Still, they give you no pay raises for even attempting to do these reports, not like they would anyway.  I think I have worked for at least six different companies since being at home in the last four years.  I am sick of making no money, not enjoying my job anymore and dealing with all the crap nobody else wants to do.  Sorry, I had to vent.. I'm ready to give up and find a job that actually PAYS in more ways than one. 


  


No, December's NOT ideal...

Anyone who's from Florida or has been there knows the rates for EVERYTHING go shooting through the sky come the season, which is the week before Thanksgiving through week after Easter.


Granted, the weather's beautiful in December, but you WILL pay for it if you go to Disney, make no mistake..... 


 


Right! It's not ideal pay but we have to make a
JMHO
Glad that you have ideal ...sm
conditions under which to work, always plenty of work, no downtime, great accounts that one can just breeze through, you don't have to spend time doing demographic/detective work that is unpaid for, great accounts, great dictators, can get all your lines in during your shift so you don't have to work off hours.  But the rest of us, and that seems to be the overwhelming majority, going by what's been posted on this board, they can't all be wrong and they deserve equal time and deserve to express themselves equally, whether negatively or positively, the same as you do.  They can't all be wrong you're so-o-o right. 
Sounds like you have the ideal situation.
Camry
I would love to be able to find a hospital job from home one day. Do you have to have broadband, or can you use dial up? Just curious. I am still stuck out in the boonies with dial up.
Lynn
What would be ideal is a combination of the ErgoMagic
keyboard that can be angled PLUS that touch pad. hmmmmm

I'll definitely post if I find one that works for me.
The ideal typing position...
is demonstrated at this website:
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ahtutorials/typingposture.html

What would be your ideal romatic getaway? Annivery coming up
22 years next month.  Thanks for your thoughts.  Janice
Just don't go in the summer. The guides say that the first week in December is ideal. nm
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