Re: IT question

From: Su (._at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:23:36 -0600

I remember reading that in another forum. I think somebody used it for 5-10
minutes every hour.

My question is, how do you retain the information if it's only used for 1/2
hour on the first day, and then presume you increase it by 10 minutes a day
thereafter. --- It kind of makes me wonder how I even learned to type. What
was it ... 30 minutes a day, a few days a week: fff space jjj space ...

"14tonks" <mail.2.14tonks@recursor.net> wrote in message
news:36km1lF51riq4U1@individual.net...
> 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.
> --
>
> Sheila
> To reply to me, add the prefix real. to my address.
>
> "Karen C" <kcunnin502@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:36kepjF515pa5U1@individual.net...
>> "Su" <.@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:M02Nd.37249$BQ2.10245@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>> > 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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