Re: IT question

From: 14tonks (mail.2.14tonks_at_recursor.net)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:39:05 -0500

The usual advice when starting with a new expander is to use it for just a
half hour or so the first day, and gradually increase time using it as you
pick up speed. Very few people can afford to have their productivity drop
for a week or more while they learn something new. Almost everyone can
afford to take a half hour to work at a little slower rate using something
new, though, whether it is an expander, SR, a new word processor, or
whatever. 

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> "Su" <.@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I know that, which is why I quit the product so quickly. The bottom line
> was
> > $$$. I couldn't take that kind of cut in pay. Maybe if I went half my
> normal
> > speed it would be okay, but I dropped from 11 to 2 pages an hour first
> try.
>
> Yeah, I recall those days.  It was a good six weeks before I was able to
say
> I had picked up my speed back to a good clip.
>
> And yes, I was working about 16 hours per day during that time.  I hated
> having to put in all those hours, but I knew I had to do it to get over
the
> hump and have it be working for me.  That's how I've been looking at
Dragon.
> Haven't yet made the purchase.  Have to see which version I want to get to
> fit my needs.  Probably 90 percent of my work these days is LT, so I'm not
> convinced I need the medical version, though.  Whatever I get, I'm
dreading
> the slowdown for the learning curve.
>
> > Getting old is the pitz. I can feel one brain cell after the other going
> > ka-ching! RIP.
>
> My poor old arthritic hands are totally in agreement!
>
> --
> Karen C.
>
>

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