Re: MT questions

From: Susan Mitchell (medlawtrans_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:02:18 -0800

Neal, you are truly Calamity Jane or Jim! I swear. Without you our lives
would be so dull. I love hearing of your days. 

--
Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"Neal" <nbrown12@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:362s1aF4tq2f1U1@individual.net...
> Brenda,
>
> Everything is not all peachies and cream around here!  For example, just
>   this noon I sat my 16+ oz. cup of coffee down on the desk, not looking
> where I placed it.  Unfortunately, I kinda missed the desk, not
> completely, but it dumped - about half in my keyboard, more in my mouse,
> running under the keyboard, soaking the hand towel I have over the wrist
> rest to keep my hands from sweating.  Then the river of coffee took aim
> at my right leg, a large amount landing on the folder laying on the
> floor that has all my tax preparations in it and the schedule for
> tomorrow's work laying next to it.
>
> As I jumped out of the way, rolling my leather office chair back, I
> noticed the little wheels on the chair were rolling through the coffee.
>   I 'possibly' said a bunch of damn, damn, damn, and a few more damns
> for good measure.  I grabbed a towel from the hall linen closet, wiped
> up everything, dabbed at the papers in the tax folder (the accountant
> will have to live with those), and grabbed the ever-present can of Spot
> Shot.
>
> That did a good job of getting the coffee up from the carpet that had
> rolled off the chair mat.  It actually wasn't as bad as yesterday, when
> one of the cats vomited on the tax file folder.  Think I will put the
> coffee-logged tax papers in another folder when they dry out.
>
> Neal
>
>
> Brenda C. Nygren wrote:
> > Maybe that's my problem --- When I had my local clients, they were
> > pretty much great dictators (or I whipped them into shape :) ), but that
> >  gig came with an unpredictable workload each day, and I did not take
> > more than a long weekend off for about ten years (not worth coming back
> > from a vacation to the overload of work).
> >
> > Now, I'm working as an IC for two services.  In one case, there's not
> > enough work to go around, so I waste time on a fishing expedition.  In
> > the other situation, the work involves boatloads of clerical nonsense
> > that really slows down the production, and the company has squeezed me
> > into a semi-schedule commitment, not what I consider appropriate for IC
> > status. There just does not seem to be any way to win.
> >
> > I'm now working equivalent hours to when I had local clients, getting
> > paid what I consider fair line rates, but due to conditions I can't
> > control, the net pay is not what I consider unacceptable.  For the one
> > service, the line count per hour/ minutes of dictation per hour are not
> > my normal average (another issue -- something fishy?).
> >
> > The old MQ line about "but you get to work in your jammies" just doesn't
> > cut it with me.  That's my heat and electric bill, my computer, my
> > reference materials, my DSL and phone lines, my check that pays the
> > health insurance, my expenses.  The MTSO doesn't have to fork out much
> > for the luxury of my working at my home office.  I figure the only
> > advantages are the savings of not putting mileage on the car and not
> > putting up with office politics --- oh, but we all know there can be
> > long distance political games.
> >
> > I'm dreaming of a full day of a perfect dictator.
> >
> > Glad you're getting good work, Neal.  It's good to know there are some
> > MTs out there still happy and not getting shafted.  I've just noticed
> > that a ton of MT acquaintances have been getting disgusted over the last
> > year, people I never dreamt would tell me that they hate their work.
> >
> > Have a good one.  Brenda
> >
> > 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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