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Nope, after moving 9 times in 9 years, I hoard

Posted By: NOTHING that won't fit in my car on 2006-03-12
In Reply to: Is there anyone out there that hoards up things for no reason? - me

and benefit me at the new destination! LOL!


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As long as your colon keeps moving, it's not going to hoard materials in it. Eat right! nm
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Nope not new at all. Almost 20 years of
I just think that forming a club of "oh woe is me" is not going to solve anyone's burned out problems.  Be glad you have a job.  
After 25 years, nope. Just work. But I used to. nm
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Nope. Let mine drop years ago.
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Nope. Not after sitting in an office chair for 15 years

with earphones stuck in my ears all day.


At least this way if I go to get a drink, I don't hear all about what this one said or that one said, blah, blah, blah.


Nope. Many years working at the School of Medicine. SM

An MS4 is a med student till June graduation. He's "Mister So-and-So" then in June when he graduates, he's "Doctor So-and-So."


A 4th year resident is something else entirely. He is an R4 (or that's what they call them here). HE is an MD. The MS4 is not an MD.


You have been going 5 times a week for 2 years and have not lost weight? So..
it's basically more than $300/year for social hour? I've been going for 2 months faithfully and didn't lose an ounce until I went back on Atkins this week. It's nowhere near enough of a workout.
I've tried to quit 6 times in the past 6 years but

always went back to it. The longest I've quit was 3 weeks. My mom died from COPD and she had smoked from age 16. She really enjoyed smoking and although we kept trying, couldn't get her to quit until she was on 24 hour oxygen.  She told me if she couldn't enjoy anything in life (smoking), why live. She died 3 months later.


I started smoking at 13...you know, the "try it, you'll like it" phase. We both tried to quit when I was 19 but we only lasted a day. There was only cold turkey then.


I've tried the patch (3 weeks off cigarettes), cold turkey, herbal meds, hynosis (only lasted 5 hours), you name it. I've used all the suggestions possible to no avail.


With a cigarette dangling from my mouth, I told my boys never to start smoking because they'd never be able to quit easily. Two took my advice, one didn't. He also tried to quit smoking but failed. He was on Wellbutrin for it.


My husband started smoking at 8 while working in a coal mine. He quit cold turkey 19 years ago. He was smoking almost 4 packs a day and one day he got so disgusted with it, he  just threw them out the window of the car. Never touched one since and smoke from other people doesn't bother him.


He told me you really have to have the willpower and just get disgusted enough to quit. There's no other way. I guess I just don't have that willpower.


I hoard food..any kind.

Back in the 70s, we almost starved. Both out of work and almost lost everything, but being young, didn't know bankruptcy was available to us. We thought we'd be ruined for the rest of our lives, so we struggled to provide for ourselves.  We had 2 kids to take care of. We had no money to buy food and the neighbors would give us their leftovers...enough to feed the kids at least and DH and I would eat anything that was leftover from them. My husband would do work for the neighbors in return.


Now when I go to the store, if something is on sale---especially the Buy 1 get 1 free, 2 for $5, etc., I don't just buy the 2 fer, I buy as many as I can. They also have a 10 for $10 sometimes and I go nuts with that. Out of 25 items they have at this price, I may buy 20. I'm just a sucker for this kind of stuff.  If I go to Sam's Club, I buy all the bulk stuff I can. It's  nothing to spend $300 there, but at least I don't have to go to the stores locally for quite a while.


I'm trying to stop now and a lot of times throw the store circulars out before looking at them, but it hasn't been easy. I now only have 1 jar of jelly, and am on my last jar of peanut butter, and only 5 boxes of pasta. Even my 2 freezers are low and my chest freezer doesn't have anything in it. LOL


Nope, I don't feel "LUCKY" to be treated like an imbicile by my company. Nope, No way.
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Moving to AZ...sm

I tried posting this on the state boards but there is no activity there, so I am posting here.


Thinking about moving to Arizona next year.  Somewhere around the Goodyear, Surprise, Litchfield Park area.  Love Estrella Ranch but it is just a tad too pricey for what we want to spend.  Anybody from Arizona care to share if there are other communities similar to Estrella Ranch?  Where are the best schools for high school and middle school?  good, bad and ugly would be great. 


Thanks


Considering moving on from MT to QA at MQ and

am wondering how that works.  If you're in QA, do you ONLY do QA work?  Or do you also do transcription?

I ask because when I receive updates from my office, and it shows which MTs and which QA's are currently working, sometimes there are NO REPORTS in QA, and it makes me wonder if those folks just sit there until something comes along, or do they do something else in the meantime?

No one to ask this evening so thought I'd ask here.  Thanks!


 


lol thats it? lol moving on....
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Moving up sm
I know that most places, this is the luck of the draw to find a management position. I have experience doing it and I can't get a job to be able to do it again, and honestly I don't know that I would want to at this point. I was a wonderful manager, as far as my MTs were concerned, but it is not my forte' in this business and I didn't particularly enjoy it. I found it pretty thankless all the way around, from the QA to trying to motivate a good MT to work more and try to teach a poor MT how to do a better job, assigning work, taking STAT reports in the middle of the night which I was not supposed to type myself, but usually did because I am not going to call someone at 3 a.m.!!! Yuck.

As far as MTing goes, I am a better than average MT and I know what I am doing. I can get in, get it done and get out to take care of my life. It doesn't have to encroach on my free time. I didn't find this true when I was manager, there was no free time. I make substantially better money with about one-third of the hours.

Also, in order to get in on one of these management positions, I think you need to distinguish yourself as an outstanding MT. Now, if you do that, they will notice you, but they will not promote you because you are now too valuable as an MT. This is the situation I was recently in in. My last job I was told I would *never* be considered for QA or management because of my MT skills. I was consistently in the top 3 production wise, my QA numbers were well below 5% and my accuracy on audits was over 99%. I was just too good for it. You are darned if you and darned if you don't.

Then again, my goal was never to manage, it was to be an excellent MT. I think as it is your goal, you should go for it. You might consider taking some management courses at a local community college so you can put that on your resume too. If you have anything that could be considered management experience, make the most of it. Be valuable to your company, but not too valuable! LOL

Still not moving - sm

I tried both suggestions, but neither moved the "file through help" portion back to the horizontal toolbar - still vertical on the left side of the page.


thank you for trying...


I loved it. Very moving.
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It is HIS house, I do the moving

He owns this house. It is too expensive for me to live here. It is an older home, needs work, expensive to heat. I work 5 pm to 2am. So evenings and nights. He puts kids to bed. I and kids wake up at 9am. Kids go to bed at 10pm.


And, there is nothing...I say N O T H I N G to rent in my daughter's school district (I've already moved her twice) and I am staying in this district til she graduates or if I am settled, for the duration of little kids' schooling.


Nope, don't have any interest in being Radiology Director of a 300+ bed hospital. Sorry.


Thanks for post.


Try moving your monitor up or down, too. sm
When my monitor is not positioned correctly, I get terrible neck aches and headaches. Sometimes just a half inch really makes a difference. Or even move your keyboard up or down. When I worked at the hospital, maintenance had to move my whole desk up onto 2 x 4's to give me that little bit of extra I needed and then I was comfortable. They had a desk made for kids that I had to sit at. It was really cramped.
Moving IT to a new computer
Please see the link below for instructions on how to move IT to a new computer.
Ok, I started it. Come on over and see if we can get it moving.
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MOVING TO TEXAS

Stay away from the D/FW area and Houston - too much traffic and illegals.  Drugs, gangs, etc.  Try to find a small town or country setting.  It is HOT and the concrete of the cities just increases that heat.  Also the pollution in these areas is bad so if you have any type of lung or breathing problems - stay away.  However, if you do not mind sitting in traffic for an hour to get to a job 10 miles away - then you should move to a big city.  If you are planning to work from home, remember that internet is not available everywhere in Texas.  Personally, I wouldn't move to Texas - I would choose SC or FL - much better options.


 


kat


moving to Sacramento......
I am in Loomis, about 20-30 minutes away. It is hotter than heck here in the summer and they last till, well we have the last of it now. This year was the WORST in my opinion, and I have been in the area for 25 years. I have never had a problem finding work, I check the various MT boards and Craigslist also yes occasionally Sutter does hire, but not so much MTs in this area - more in the Bay Area. Most of the Sutter Hospitals in the Sac area outsource their transcription. I worked there for 7 years in transcription, and another 4 years in other departments. Not so sure you want to work at a Kaiser Hospital, they aren't so nice. Good luck to you! Really this is such a great location for CA, you are close to mountains, ocean, etc. I think you are really going to like it!
Moving jobs
Same here - I have had 3 jobs in the past 2 years, as well -with 2 being lost to account loss. I work as an IC - so it just goes on my resume as IC with the specialties I have worked. I am doing mostly editing now and do not know if this is a good fit, either, and may be changing again very soon.
I'm going to try moving my laptop around...sm...
to different areas of the house or on the deck or somewhere to see if that helps.  Haven't tried it yet but will soon.  I'm almost finished getting laptop set up.
Good for you...i am moving on as well...
I decided to go back to school!
Moving into management

Some places will promote their lead Transcriptionist into management, but that's often a mistake.  Having excellent transcription skills is not the same thing as having mentoring, motivating, planning, budgeting and interpersonal skills in a transcription environment. 


You've had a boss who thought you had potential in these areas.  Do you feel you would enjoy doing those things or would you feel the call of the keyboard?  Would you dislike delegating?  Would you dislike training because it's just faster and easier to do it yourself?  Do you like dealing with people, or do you prefer to deal with data and to be left alone to do your thing?  These are some of the questions to consider because the jobs really are different.


If you are truly tired of the rat race that is production typing and think you really might be interested in management, then check your local junior college or business school for classes on management/supervision.  They might be credit classes or they may be career/life enrichment classes.  They shouldn't be all that expensive, and they should give you a better idea about whether this is the path you want to take.  Employers sometimes look for the RHIT or CMT credential for management personnel.  If you aren't one of those, then proof of study in the management field may be of help to you.


I find that I generally like to read/discuss management techniques more than I like doing them, but it's getting harder and harder to do the production thing.  Maybe I'm ready to try management again.  I think I've learned not to make the same mistakes I made before.  It's thinking about making the new ones that's holding me back!  Best of luck in whichever path you take.


Moving up in your company
I am just starting as an MT for a new company. What I am really interested in is working as an MT for a good while, learning everything about my account, my company, and the platform, and then working my way up. Can anyone who has done this tell me about what steps they took to do it and/or give any tips you can? I am not that interested in doing QA, but if I can move up to QA one day I wouldn't turn it down.
template moving..help please..sm

I could use any help from someone more savvy than I am in regards to the making the template not move.


I was given a letterhead that I now need to put headers in.  The need to be lined up like this:


 


PATIENT NAME:   @@                      DOB: @@


PHYSICIAN:   @@                              MR#: @@


 


No matter what I try, I can not fill in one field without the other field moving over. It is so time consuming to have to back it up each time considering there are four fields each side.


Any ideas? 


The form I need to make this on has their header with log and the footer with their names and the like, so I have the inside of a template so to speak, to work in. 


thank you for anything to help.


Tiffany


 


moving tool bar
So I played around with Word. There are three dots to the right of the word File. Put your curser on the three dots and drag them back up to your tool bar. They will then be in a "little bar/box" then click on that bar again and "drop" it back on top. Hope that helps!
Moving big stuff
Log onto Craigslist for your area and post a notice - you need someone with a truck who is traveling in your direction to take your furniture. If you are near a college, perhaps a student would keep the rocking chair or whatever til the semester ends in May and transport it then - put up notices around your town. Post a Craigslist notice on your destination town's board - just spread the word and someone will step forward to help you out. I got a refrigerator box from Sears one year when we lived in Hawaii and put my rocking chair in that, filled with sheets and blankets to pad it. I taped it like there was no tomorrow. Shipped from Hawaii to British Columbia without a problem.
question about moving on

I worked for MQ for over 2 decades, from back when they were Transcriptions Limited.  Have nearly 34 years experience in EVERYTHING except pathology. 


I was offered a job with a company where I would do urgent care from an FTP site using my Word 2003.  That is fine.  My question is, how do you count lines?  They said something about counting lines using Word 2003 as everything on the page is paid for.  I don't even know how to do that.  That is what happens when you work for one company for so long, you get use to their program and never think about it.


Is there a way to count lines for every single document all at once or do you have to count lines for each document?  Haven't started this yet, but sure would like to know what I am doing before I get hooked up into this.


Thanks ahead of time!


 


we are thinking about moving to Denver (sm)
and I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who lives in or around that area.  Any info good or bad would be appreciated.  I just wanna know the basics, like how hard would it be for a southern family to adapt to Colorado? TIA!
I know it says it once and once is all it takes. We are moving away from it but still acceptable.nm
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Always, always be sure to have your helmet on, even when grooming and moving from
paddock, pasture, stall, etc.  We just had a girl in 4-H that was pretty timid.  The horse she was taking through a gate spooked and she ended up getting her face bones fractured as well as crush fracture to the top of her skull.  This horse had NEVER been a problem before.  Now everyone wears a helmet if they are even handling a horse and not just at riding time.  Point is to not scare you....just be aware that horse knows how you are doing emotionally and if he doesn't trust you, keep yourself protected until he does.  By the way, I could never earn enough money to pay for the 'therapy' I receive from my horses!!!  HAPPY TRAILS!!
Moving menu bars
You may have just moved it - try moving your other toolbars around, see if it comes back.  I've done the same thing in the past!
I'm moving into editing. Since so much transcription is
need editors.  I've tested for a company that is paying 6 cpl. 
getting up and moving about or weight loss.NM

chewing, yawning, moving around...
NOT SPELLING WORDS THEY CAN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE...HELLO! That must be the biggest thing for me! Who do they think I am, Sylvia Brown???
Thanks! Might be moving to NY/NJ area. I was wondering (m)
what it was like there.  I would like to live on the lake.  How big is the lake.  Can you boat on it?  What are house prices like on the lake? Are the schools good? How far is it from Mahwah, NJ and what would the traffic be like driving there? Whatever you could tell me about the area would be great.  I appreciate it. Thanks!
Moving from Alabama to Sacramento, CA
Getting married in December.  Fiance' has been there for a year now.  How is the transcription job market in California.  I have a work-at-home job, but thinking maybe I can get something local.  Compared to Alabama, the cost of living is extremely high though.  How is the climate there, any and all info appreciated.
tool bars moving
Usually you can click - drag and drop them where you want them - hope this works for you this time.
Thanks..progress keeps moving along and dragging me with it! nm
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moving auto correct

Does anyone know how to move the auto correct entries that you have on one computer and putting them on another computer also.  I have my home computer that I have my side Doc that I do and I will be working for a hospital and want to also have them on this computer.  I tried some directions that I got off microsoft.com with just putting a floppy in clicking files/folders, local hard drive and put in file name to search- normal. dot but nothing came up.  Is there another way, as I would hate to type these all over again?


Thanks


 


 


Moving to Hawaii in June!
I will be working from 4 am til about 10 or 11 and then going to have the rest of the day to enjoy the sun and surf! Lived there before and loved it and can't wait to get back.
question about moving - I really hope someone can help

Unfortunately, I have to sell everything in my apartment and am being forced to move. I plan on having a moving sale, but I really want to keep my rocking chair and a small endtable that belongs in my family.  I can pack quite a bit in my car and drive across country with everything, but I know I will have at least three boxes that will probably not fit in the car.


My question - I cannot afford a moving company, or a moving van, and I had looked into getting a little trailer to put on the back of my car, but apparently that is not an option on my car.


So that being said, how can I get my rocking chair and family end table to my next destination the cheapest and safest way?  How do I wrap up a rocking chair and table??  Would Mail Box Etc cost a fortune?  The post office makes you do your own wrapping and boxing.  Should I just let the chair and table go?


Any suggestions?


Help!! Moving IT to new computer without disk

I have recently moved and can not find my IT disk to load the program into my new laptop!!  I have looked everywhere and can not find the disk!!  I have the book but no disk!!  I am starting a new account today and desperately need to transfer it to my new computer from my old one.  Is there one install file in all of these on there that will do the job or do I have to copy over all of these files?


Thanks!!


I'm moving into a new house w/fiberglass tubs sm
so I'll go pick up some 409 before I do my move-in cleaning.  Thanks for the tip!
Any Canadian MTs here? Am thinking of moving north. Could you

I am interested in knowing a few things about living in Canada and working for the U.S. company.  I also understand Canadian medical institutions utilize MTs.  Would like to correspond with an MT living in Canada. 


My e-mail address is above.  If you have time to answer a few questions, please e-mail.  I am considering moving to B.C., Vancouver or Okanagan Valley depending what I find during my scouting of each area; am presently in California. 


Thank you!


They are not rumors. They are opinions. MQ is moving towards something and that is a fact and it may
well be they are going to go with the technology spoken about above totally by other posters and get out of the MT side of it. That has been spoken of many many times by many many people and is not a rumor. It is an opinion. I would rather be forwarned and have my ducks in a row and not sit her getting nasty surprises. No one has to do anything but just be aware that is all. Just be looking over your shoulder and thinking ahead and you will be fine.
either way is correct. They are moving away from the hyphen but it is not incorrect.
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Try moving the radio to another area of the room--
so both electrical signals won't be crossing.