Help! I'm confused

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Well thanks for your replies! It's a little confusing though. I'm in the mentoring program so i don't make a whole lot right now.

So every paycheck you just take a certain amount out and set it aside and then when the quarter comes up you print off whatever form and send it in?

Thank you.  I'm not finding "browse."  How do you switch it to another default player?  When I download files, it doesn't appear to open with iTunes, it just gets copied there.

I have been an MT for a year now, so I still consider myself a newbie.  If I'm not, let me know - I'll post elsewhere...

Anyway, my question is, how do people get in so many lines per day with proofreading involved?  People are saying 1,200 - 1,600 lines per day for full time, and that is astonishing to me! 

Just wondering, but do the MT's that have been doing this for a long time not proofread their work?  I always go through the dictation and type it, then I play it again and proofread what I typed (if there are any blanks I make a note of the times where they are located in the dictation), and then I go back and relisten to any parts that are blank and fill in.  Does everyone do that?

And, while I'm at it, does anyone have advice on how to make proofreading less painful?  I love typing but feel like the proofreading takes so much time.

Thanks!!

Hey ya'll,

  I've been reading these forums lately, and i'm just so confused.  I'm about to graduate in April/May with my certificate in MT, and I just don't know the best way to go about getting hired.  I live in a small town in Georgia, and i've taken a few tests, but the only one I heard back from was Medscribe and they said that I did good but I didn't have the experience.

Is there any type of appenticeship or does anyone know of a good way just to get your foot in the door?  It seems like all i'm seeing is that the newbies in this profession can't get a job, and it's starting to scare me!

I'm going to school at Darton college in Albany, GA, which claims to be one of the best allied health schools around.  I actually attend class (not online) and we're doing clinicals, but they are on campus, not with the hospital. 

I'm starting to wonder if I just wasted my last two years doing this :(

Thanks for any insight,

Shannon

I have been told Word 2003 is the program I will want to purchase. Where is the best place to buy it? At staples all I can find is Word 2007. Is that better? Also, what does Microsoft works suite 2003 mean? Is Microsoft Office Word 2003 the same as Word 2003? Someone please just TELL ME WHAT TO BUY before I pull my hair out!!

in express scribe or some program like that.  Word 2007 is used only for typing the actual files you're listening too, it has nothing to do with opening .wav files or anything other than text files.

I have taken the pre-enrollment test for both Andrews and MTEC and I am really torn between which school to go through.  They both look like excellent schools, especially after reading all the posts from the graduates out there. 

I know that MTEC's Tier 1 Premier program is about $400 or $500 less than Andrews, which is a plus, but I want to make sure I'm making the right choice. 

As of last week I was ready to sign up at Andrews, but for some reason I am leaning towards MTEC.  I have done transcription in the past, but I am definitely needing to start over because that was a long time ago. 

Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.