Work morning, noon and night.....sort of...have always had at least 2 jobs, sometimes 3 -
Posted By: don't like all my eggs - sm on 2005-09-12
In Reply to: I have a question for those of you who are - experiencing the famine part..sm
in 1 basket. I just make myself a schedule for each job and try to stick to it, or work a lot early before kids get up for school, then work the 7 hours I get free during the day, then another 2-3 at night in order to do it all. Generally take 1 day off (Saturday) and 1 night off a week (Friday night usually) to try and keep sane. It can be done but it does grow old quick....been doing it for 3+ years in varying degrees of nuttiness.
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Work Tuesday through Sunday morning on night shift. nm
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Morning baby, morning adult. Kids born at 11:30AM (both) are night owls, however. Go figure! :) nm
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IC work split 7am-noon then 10-1am ... my choice nm
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I split mid morning and night
My kids are old enough to get themselves ready for school (all teenagers) so I sleep till about 9am get up work and do various household chores until they come home, spend a few hours with them and fixing dinner then when hubby leaves in the evening for work I work until around midnight. No "me" time and errands are done on the weekends, but works fairly well.
What did he say last night about the idea? Was he all for it and then called this morning
saying don't come? Was he concerned about the traffic and congestion when you talked to him previously about your plans?
I agree with posts below. Something doesn't sit right here.
Ordered a Dell with XP Sunday night, arrived here Wed morning!
This is my 3rd Dell computer over the years. My current one is more than 5 years old and is just getting a little slow and outdated, so my hubby the computer guru suggested I get a new one before you can no longer find XP. He is still getting it set up for me (I am pretty picky!). Been VERY happy with Dell. Never had a single problem with their computers. My current computer still has lots of life in it, so he is going to use it as a backup for his laptop. BTW, we went right to the Dell website and ordered. Good luck to you! 
Well I see there are no jobs available here this morning on multiple DQS accounts. What a job MQ is.
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Sounds like where I work. Everyone morning I wake up to not enough work. I'm quitting
This has been going on for a few months so I don't know if they have overhired or just sent a lot of it to India. I just know I can't sit here everything day waiting until "volumes build up." I'm looking elsewhere.
They'll ask you what sort of work (sm)
you like to do best and least, and then they'll make sure to assign you to the sort of work you like least!
Amphion is 70% boring clinic notes, for which they pay a pittance. In addition, you have to input all the demographic data from some blurry pdf copy of a fax printout. Of course the info you're given in the dictation (the account number) isn't how the fax is organized, so you have to play hunt the patient for each stupid little 10-line progress note.
Tell us if you can make any money this way, because I sure couldn't.
I work early morning shift and I get the garbage
leftover from the day before. I will often get 6 reports from a very difficult ESL dictator and they may be over an 8 hour period of dictation. When there is such a gap in the dictation you know you are being assigned these reports, not just luck of the draw. All work is assigned by the office. I have seen my line count drop about 4000 lines/pay period the last couple of months because I'm getting such bad dictators. I don't mind doing my fair share, but it certainly isn't fair that my line count is being affected like it is.
I have complained to my supervisor and it got better for a couple of months and now it is the same crap all over again and I'm looking to move on.
Outsourcing topic on Good Morning America this morning....
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I work 7 days a week because I work 3 jobs.
Workaholic here who would seek counseling if I had the time. hahaha
12 noon to 3 PM - I am at 1261 and done for now.
I too get slower as the day progresses. Work better in 2-3 hour bursts!
I drink 2, maybe 3 cups a day and before noon.
I bet you work for Amphion. I had this blank the other night. Never did figure it out. Sorry. n
That's the problem. I work for clinic in day... MTSO at night...
The doctors where I work love my work. They have no complaints and do come in from time to time, so why am I letting this MTSO thing get to me so? I realize working in the office where I work, the scope of the transcription is not as vast as when I work for the MTSO at night, but it is still pretty intensive. I guess I'm just trying to do too much and I'm totally exhausted. Maybe time for a change, but just trying to make ends meet. Thanks again for your input!
I work Tuesday through Saturday on the night shift. sm
I really like the off shifts when no one else wants to work. I get a lot of work at those times, and I don't mind being out having fun when everyone else is at work.
I started with 310 minutes of work on Friday night- sm
talk about being tied to the computer all weekend. Have 131 minutes for Monday's work, fun, so have a busy day ahead! I was basically off the last week in December so it is nice to make up for lost wages.
On the noon news they were interviewing the babysitting....sm
man whose wife was too distraught to talk on camera. Seems as though when the child's mother was told of her son's death she admitted that they had had problems with him unlocking doors and walking around in the middle of the night and failed to tell this to the couple/friends that were watching him. She gave birth to a girl on Sunday and her son died today. What a tragedy.
It's 12:00 noon, time for a line check.
 
If I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep, I work a few hours sm
then I go back to sleep and when I wake up do more hours. A "regular day" no way.
I love the night shift! No interruptions and more work on the system.
I agree with poster below - Power NAPs! I am a napper, need my nap about 30 minutes to 1 hour, before my shift and a pot of coffee sometimes 2 gets me through!
Mary Kay Extra-emolient night cream will work wonders
Just apply it before you go to sleep.
janebates@marykay.com
Ok, maybe I should just stay in bed LOL How about "every morning" not everyone morning. Wow. C
I didn't assume since that post was on there before I started my shift at noon
...........and this post for help was posted only a couple of hours ago. I couldn't imagine leaving a note up for that long.
But, you are right, ya never know. :)
Been at home for over a year now and I switched to night shift. I work for a national. Started out
working the night shift and sleeping in shifts during the day. My kids are way older but that doesn't mean they don't interrupt me. Besides, there the phone issue, more interruptions, the dogs bothered me a lot, too. Love them dearly but, oh so spoiled. It was taking me 10 hours to do what I can do in 8 on nights, plus I manage to get more sleep, if you can believe that. I still get supper on the table, vacuum, laundry, etc. So far it is working pretty good, so I think I will put in for permanent night hours for awhile. No sense in working 10 when I can work 8.
IF it is secondary income, where is the harm? As long as you work around your kids (at night, naps)
a big plus when you are around kids all day and bring in a little cash to help out the household.
Actually I work 2 jobs, and when
I was applying, I asked the person doing the hiring before I even tested. Almost every single company I asked said yes, I could work off the clock, even if full time. I take that back, every single company I applied to said yes, work off the clock, just don't report more than 40 hours. They would be happy to receive the extra lines type. It is not just the company I work for, it seems to be common. Just ask the company you want to work for.
Me, I do.....work several MT jobs
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work two jobs too.
I work full-time doing acute care for a local hospital and part-time at home doing clinic work. Extra money always helps, especially since I am putting my husband through school.
anybody work 2 p/t MT jobs?
Just wondering if anybody works part-time for two companies?
1st night to work and NO WORK!
I am so discouraged and disappointed now. My first night of trying to work at the new company and not one single report to transcribe. This is exactly why I left the previous company I worked for....they never had any work and I was not making any money. Now I'm starting to think maybe I have made a big mistake and chose the wrong place to work. 
I saw HOWIE last night on a late night episode of Blind Date. too funny.
I'm thinking if they are smart they'll boot Rachel. I think she's really smart and a good player. I don't think Howie is all that smart or able to be a winner. I think this could force Howie to hook up with James to go for the final 2.
Yes--it airs at noon in the Pacific time zone after a repeat of last week's show. nm
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Work at home jobs....
Is medical transcription one of the only legitimate careers available for people who want/need to be able to work from their home? In searching for work-at-home opportunities it seems that so many things are scams. I realize one can open any number of businesses that are based in their homes, but I'm talking about working FOR someone...for a company, and doing it from home. I bought a book that supposedly gave lists of companies willing to hire people for work from home, but almost all of them either A. Required a person to reside in a state I don't or B. Had experience requirements that I didn't meet. I'm just wondering if there is some big area of the marketplace that I'm missing that routinely hires people to work from their home, like medical transcription. Can anyone help with this? Thanks.
I work 2 jobs. One is ER with DS thrown in and the
second job is everything but ops since that is all someone wants on the account I'm on.
It's not all cut and paste. Make macros for common phrases. If you find you keep spelling something wrong, make a macro of the wrong spelling so that it automatically corrects it. I write down my words that keep getting stopped in spell check and at the end of the day I make a macro of it to put in the correct spelling. If it needs a capital letter, make a macro so that it capitalizes for you w/o hitting the shift key. If it's an abbreviation that needs to be capitalized, macro a macro of it. Lowercase pt comes out as PT, pmh comes out as PMH. I use pmh- to make it print out as past medical history and put a semicolon after pmh; for it to print out in capital letters. I have macros for the % sign. 1P = 1% and goes all the way up to 100p for 100%, 1L is 1 liter, 1h = 1 hour. If you are constantly typing certain headings for doctors make a macro of it. I have one doctor that wants all different headings than on the template we are given. I made a template just for him where everything is capitalized and bolded the way he wants so that saves me a ton of time. Make macros for your common meds. Also put correct caps of meds into your spellcheck. If I capitalize something like prednisone, it will make it automatically a lowercase w/o stopping on it except if it is the beginning of a sentence.
Work both jobs until you get new coverage or
buy your own policies.
It is a choice and you're making it.
If you're going to stay in hell, please do not complain about the temperature!
The company I work for has jobs sm
posted every week, even offering jobs that pay by the hour, but there is NO WORK for the transcriptions who already work there! This morning there are 2 jobs.
Asking about dialup, work, jobs, etc. (SM)
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Otherwise, the Company board is for asking about a specific company (or companies).
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Yes, you can work 2 jobs for the same company.
The only catch is that if the hours for the 2 jobs combined are over 40 per week, that company has to pay OT for you and most companies won't allow you to work 2 jobs within the company for this reason. When I worked at the hospital, I held 2 part-time positions with them and never had a problem.
Anyone work two jobs at the same time?
I only have dial-up and it is so so slow and now the company I work for has "updated" their system which has made my downloading even slower and can only download two jobs at a time.. so now I have to sit and wait for the next job to come through. The hours at my present job are becoming less and less flexible too and most places I have inquired about want you to put in an 8 hours shift. My situation is that I was getting my line requirements in in about 4 1/2 hours, but now with the so slow system, I fear I will be sitting and waiting for work and I just can't stand not being productive... after all I'm not being paid to sit. Was thinking about taking another position, working 5 minutes on one computer, switching to another and working 5 more minutes while my work downloads on the first, and back and forth. Anyone else do this? Can it be done? or am I just taking on more than I can handle? This downtime really is killing me, not just $$$, but psychologically too... I'm a Type A and I just want to Git Er done. Any suggestions?
work 2 jobs - see income going down -
as I still do mostly transcription but both are heavily into VR with huge pay cuts and I am so fast at typing that I will lose money big time - FT national 45,000, PT small company 13,000.
I currently work 70 hours a week and three jobs...
so it is physically possible to work that many hours. I am going down to 50 hours a week in two weeks, but you do what you have to do.
Most jobs want a set schedule for work at home, from what I can tell -sm
there are very few that allow you to work when you want to anymore. I have 2 luckily that are 24 hour TAT so as long as I meet deadline they don't care when I work. You will unlikely find an at home job where you make much more than $10 an hour since ESL is 80% of any job anymore. So if that trade off is worth it for you, less money, more freedom, go for it.
I work 2 part-time IC jobs..sm
I feel like I have more stability that way just incase I want to leave one job or run out of work I always have a back-up.
I work 2 full time IC jobs. nm
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Work 2 jobs here to pay off home improvement. sm
I am currently working a second job to pay for some home improvements. I figured it would take about 3 years to pay off the debt but now it is looking like it will be more like 2 - 2 1/2 years. My kids are older so they understand but I am TIRED!. I have worked this second job for about 1 1/2 years now and while I am glad I had it available, I am about ready to quit the second job. What good is a nice house if I am to exhausted to enjoy it and my family?
I work 2 full time jobs..
I work from 8:00 - 4:30 then get home and start working about 6 pm. until 12-1 a.m. It's tough to do, but can be done if you are determined enough. I've been doing for almost one year now. The bad thing is I work salary during day hours, and paid cpl at night, so nothing is overtime pay for me. Would be easier to have one job with overtime allowed. We girls just do what we gotta do, don't we?
Ditto, I work 2 PT jobs, which add up to 1 FT but am kept hopping - sm
with their activities, Brownies, dance classes for both, etc. My DH cleaned the other day, kids had it trashed in a very short period of time. He freaked. Now he understands why I get so bent when they make a mess. They are 5 & 7 so old enough to know better. I plan on getting one of those chore charts and start using it on a weekly basis. They like to fold the laundry though and help with that....where I need their cooperation is cleaning up their toys and not leaving cups everywhere. We are working on that though and they do loose privileges when they don't do what we ask of them. I think that is the best method to use for now. Good luck.
Has anyone looked into other work at home jobs (sm)
Like customer service or taking orders?
I started looking around and ran into a lot of ads and scams.
Any info would be appreciated, I want to get out of this field before too long.
I work two part-time jobs
and that seems to keep it more interesting for me. I work on two different platforms. One is a small hospital where I am an IC, and the other is an MTSO where my account is a huge hospital. I think having to juggle the two jobs, supervisors, etc., keeps me more distracted. But, yeah, it can get really boring at times.
I quit for 2 years a few years ago because I was seriously burned out and felt brain dead, but when I started looking for work again could not stand the thought of going to an office, so here I am again.
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