Re: OK, I've been doing this for 2 months.. need advice

From: Donna/Tx. (miladybug_at_yahoo.com.com)
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:04:06 GMT

I just talked to a lady I used to work with. She works for a transcription
company now (she hates it). Anyway, was trying to get an idea of what to
do. She told me I should be making AT LEAST 10 cents line. An history and
physical I typed this morning was 211 lines (and that was a short one).
That was half of a side of the tape, not quite. She really gave me some
good advice, because of the extra wear and tear on me in addition to my
full-time job, and my family. I wanted to try this account, and I'm not
sorry I did, but going to do keep it for minimum wage. If it's too
expensive to pay a transcriptionist a decent wage, why does he insist on
using only the "best" high-grade paper? Does not make sense to me.

Thanks, everyone, for their input, and please keep on with it. I really
respect your opinions. Like I said, I'll behave. :)

Donna/Tx

"Jan Rooff" <lrooff@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Donna/Tx." <miladybug@yahoo.com.com> wrote in message
> news:vIKnd.17295$g21.5279@fe1.texas.rr.com...
> > Replying to myself, but get this. I asked the girl who used to do
> this
> > doctor's transcription. She's not a trained transcriptionist; she is
> his
> > respiratory tech. I asked her how long it used to take her to do a
> tape,
> > she said, oh about an hour. I said, you cannot do a tape in an hour
> when
> > there's two hours worth of dictation on it!
>
> Reminds me of my boss... He'll give me a tape at quarter to five and
> tell me, "This should only take about ten minutes" (not even realizing
> that he's been dictating into it for half an hour). I've learned to
> automatically multiply his time estimates by a factor of three or four
> to figure how much overtime I'll be getting that day.
>
> Eliyahu
>
>

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