Re: MT questions
From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 01/30/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:48:37 -0500
Well, put me in the easily entertained club with you, Neal. If all I did was
straight typing all day every day, I would burn out rather quickly. I
really didn't care for transcription all that much back in the typewriter
age, although I was pretty good at it. There was just not enough mental
stimulation to type, type, type. That's one of the reasons I moved to
clinical within a few years.
Coming back to it in the computer age, it's a whole different ball game.
Templates, macros, expanders, merges....I love it. Until I run out of
programs and tricks to learn to make my computer roll over and type it out
for me on command, I don't think I'm likely to burn out. Considering how
slowly it's going trying to learn VBA, I figure I have lots of unbored,
unburned-out years to look forward to, LOL!
Besides, I have some control over how many hours I work now, and what
environment I do the work in. What really burned _me_ out was a decade of
working 6 to 7 days a week for totals of 60 to 80 hours in a department that
was in perpetual crisis mode.
-- Sheila To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address. "Neal" <nbrown12@comcast.net> wrote in message news:362q6hF4rq37aU1@individual.net... > A further thought just staggered its way into my mind... > > I think for me a lot of not being or getting burned out is attitude. I > now don't get bothered by things that used to drive me nuts. > > For example, it used the aggravate the fool out of me when a doctor was > dictating the plan or recommendations and dictated the first sentence or > several sentences and then said, "Two" and continued. I had to stop my > flow of typing, go back and put the number 1 before the first paragraph, > indent it, put the number 2 before the next paragraph, indent it, all > the time mumbling to myself what a jerk he was, wasting my time this > way, etc, etc, etc. > > Now I just type noo to invoke the little macro I wrote that goes back > and inserts the number, indents the paragraph, nearly always gaining a > line that I get paid more for, skipping a space, and inserting the > number 2, ready for me to continue typing, almost with no pause. > > I get a little thrill each time I see that macro work, make a little > more money, and don't get upset at all. > > Okay, so it doesn't take very much to entertain me! > > Neal > > Neal wrote: > > On those days that I get disgusted, I really helps to have a day like > > today, with a full day's work of the best dictator in the practice. > > > > Neal > > > > Brenda C. Nygren wrote: > > > >> Neal, > >> > >> You've NEVER had even a twinge of burnout? What are you putting in > >> that coffee besides sugar and creamer :) > >> > >> Or, maybe one of my problems is that I don't drink any coffee? Brenda > >> > >> Neal wrote: > >> > >>> I have never felt burnout doing MT for almost 16 years now. Of > >>> course, it is pretty hard to feel burned out, sitting at my desk at > >>> home in my Dockers and T-shirt, a big cup of coffee on the right, a > >>> big piece of Anglefood cake on the left, one eye watching the clouds > >>> roll in that are supposed to cause snow tonight, and listening to a > >>> cat snore gently while snoozing in my 'wiggle chair.' > >>> > >>> Oops! Going to try to send this - computer just flashed a dying > >>> message. Going to reboot and get some more coffee.... > >>> > >>> Neal > >>> > >>
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