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great too, but only in this life!

Posted By: nm on 2005-07-07
In Reply to: whatever works for you, that's great, and what works for me is great too - Smooth road, pleasant journey

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    You should feel great as a transcriptionist if they think your work is that great!!!
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    I'm the one who needs to get a life?


    You people are the ones laughing at people behind their backs.  Typical female, backstabbing, egotistical snobs.  Exactly why most of you can't handle working in an office.  Thanks anyway, but my life doesn't include ridiculing people for me own ego.  You go right ahead.  Feel good about yourself.


    Never in my life

    I guess I have led a sheltered life.  I never in my entire life heard about so many companies bouncing checks in this business!  I would be out the door so fast, there'd be no dust behind me.  Have I just been lucky?


    I have a life.
    It's not a money issue. I have hobbies but the winters are long and cold and I'm not a winter outddoors person, only summer and I have no child. Kinda of a workaholic.
    Yes, I live a simplier life.
    Get a life b.
    I didn't realize it was intentionally setting a flame by telling people you like where you work instead of the freaks who come on here constantly complaining about their jobs. Most of you only want to hear negative things and not positives, so when someone posts something positive, you jump all over them. I think you need to grow up b.
    Get a life.
    Whatever fugly trash. If you want more, keep it coming.
    Don't even try to top my life
    you old decrepit piece of trailer trash. I will win hands down every time. Now go to bed and dream about the love of your life,your horse, Mr. Ed.
    No, I sure don't come first in his life.
    he does of me.  Seems like his loyalty lies there.  I don't think he ever learned the "leave and cleave" thing.  And our kids are very important to him.  He makes it abundantly clear that I am not top priority.  Sometimes I daydream that I meet someone who really loves me and run away with him.
    in whose life? *lol*......nm
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    in whose life? *LOL*......nm
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    nothing in life is ever as it seems...sm

    you all might be able to *read* all this supposed goodness but some might see it differently.....as some are better readers of others in life, perhaps more intuitive..


    in the life..............................nm
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    LOL everyone in my life has always said....sm

    Everyone in my life has always said I should be a *comedienne*...... they ALL cannot be wrong as they all do not know each other.  I do see myself as *entertaining* others.  *winks*


    However, I don't like lazy people.  I'm the first one to help on these boards, unless they really don't help themselves.....just the way I am.....


    Be well.......loved your reaction!!  Oh and the one under it, who also LOL. 


    It is her life, but you can still try to help her
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    WHY? Get a life.
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    Well, it's his life, isn't it? (sm)
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    your life
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    Life
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    Get a life!
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    Life after MT at age 58
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    nm
    Actually, that's my life, not like : ) - nm
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    Thank you, I will be out getting a life (nm)
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    to Wow! Get over yourself , a job and a life.sm
    This is my post that you criticize; it has 2 'tiny' typos, namely 'd' instead of 's' and 'a' instead of 's':

    ......'because I find it faster my way, ONLINE.
    You are using bookd, the old-fashioned way?

    Expensive and much too slow.

    I checked the yesterday'a and today's questions in the afternoon and found - as already said - only 1 somehow unjustifiable question.
    To check 1 day would have been enough.


    I research ONLINE
    with fast and accurate results. The internet is literally swamped with resources and references and is the fastest way. You should try it.
    Are you still looking into books? Way too slow.

    So, do not blow this out of proportion.

    If you have the urge to teach and to guide, open your own MT school and give your advice there.'
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    ARE YOU SO BORED AND UNEMPLOYED THAT YOU HAVE TO PLAY 'TYPO POLICE?'

    oh well. no one said life was fair
    you just have to make what you can out of it.  There are many, many other subjects that can be debated as well.  That is what makes life what it is; a great variety of people and view points.  Enjoy the day. 
    When looking back over one's life...
    take a break.. you deserve it!
    You really need to get a woman in your life!
    nm
    looks to me like he's got enough women in his life (sm)


    he has all of us! Lucky man, kyradmt!


    What is a *good* life?
    If you are talking material things, forget that - they need to be with you. If you give up your children, they will never forgive you and YOU will never forgive you. This advice would be different it you were pregnant, then I would say, yes, give the baby to someone who can care for it. That is love.

    If you are talking any kind of abuse, get them someplace safe. No child should have to live with drug abuse, or any kind of emotional, physical, or sex abuse.

    Fad clothes, iPods, cellphones, etc., are not the ingredients of a good life. You know that. Take care and good luck to you.
    Life begins at 50!

    My kids are grown, gone & happy.


    My second husband is absolutely my best friend.


    I have an exciting and highly rewarding job in the MT industry, where I am a valuable member ot the team.


    Okay...two out of three ain't bad.


     


    P.S. Please get a life outside of this board. nm.
    nm.
    wild life
    Lets just leave the wild life alone, ya know?  *Man* has screwed enough up on this beautiful earth..Leave the wild life alone.
    I have the same problem and have all of my life. sm
    Had an array of tests and nothing abnormal showed, even thyroid was normal. There may be nothing wrong, just your unique anatomy and body. At least that was the doctor's conclusion for my problem.

    Get this, my body temperature is always 96.8 to 97.5 range and I am always "warm to hot". I can go outside in the snow without a coat and not get cold - go figure! It is not menopause - I am in my 30's and was even tested for that.
    Do you come first in your husband's life?
    or are the feelings of others such as parents and/or children top priority?
    life is too short
    Just chalk it up to your value system being different from your value system. Nothing dumb about it. I have seen the same happen.
    My life is pathetic. *sm*

    I work outside the home and I make a good wage/yearly income.  I took up medical transcription on the side in hopes that some day I could work from home.  I have to travel almost an hour to work each way and I live where we have major snow and ice storms and the older I get, the more anxiety I get about driving in this weather.  My husband hasn't been able to find a good job (he works about 30 hours a week at a dead-end job with no benefits) and I have a son in college.  I find that I work all the time with almost no social life.  I also have friends and relatives who seem to be working more than one job either both jobs outside the home or one job outside the home and then doing something on line.  No matter how much I work, I never seem to be able to get ahead and it scares me.  I do not have an extravagent home nor do I drive a newer vehicle.   What is wrong with us that we have to work more than one job to make a living and how am I going to face retirement?  I am thinking I will have to do medical transcription from home until I can no longer see and just pray that it is still around.  I never in a million years thought that my life would end up like this.  I should have listened to everyone when they said it was just as easy to marry a rich guy as it is a poor one.