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HAPPY NEW YEAR FELLOW TRANSCRIPTIONISTS! - MT2

Posted: Dec 31, 2012

I just wanted to wish all of us good health, and a happy and prosporus New Year in 2013! I think we all could use a break from worrying, working too much or too little and see a future in medical transcription without our jobs being ripped out from under us through outsourcing or smaller pay. I know it's wishful thinking, but Happy New Year to all of you. MT2

Let me just share with you - wheres_my_job

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Now that I'm NOT an MT (as of 2012, a horrible year in many ways, but in some ways things are a little better) - it is WONDERFUL to not have those quasi-pseudo-"holidays" where you're "working" but not really 'cause the work is so sporadic - or you get a bunch of the worst unfamiliar dictators all day - or your holiday is in some other way degraded by the medical transcription exploitation machine.

No, I'm not having an "exciting" New Year's Eve - I worked 4.5 hours today, I'm making lasagna, and maybe cutting some stuff out of cardboard to paint, just for fun. Besides reading more, which I am SUPER ENJOYING, just being able to concentrate, and read more than one book at a sitting, oh yeah, really charging up the brain cells. The book I was reading last night was blowing my mind, I was just so into it! Which I haven't felt about a book in a long time.

Anyway...Happy New Year!!!! I wish you freedom from MT-ing in the New Year, I cannot deny. Even things being a little better are a WHOLE LOT BETTER, comparatively speaking. Hope I can take some serious painting classes this year, and get more things published.

How about you?

Odd-numbered years are always better for me than - even ones, for some reason. So, Im hopeful!

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I have 2 New Year's resolutions: The first, and most important, is to somehow, some way, get out of medical transcription. My other resolution is to learn how to do a ballet pirouette.

Wow! Odd-numbered years have always been good for us, too! - backwards typist

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Some friends and family always think I'm nuts when I stated this but we've never had a good "even" year since 1976.

I certainly hope it still holds true. I'm hoping to put my health issues behind me, hoping DH works this year (only worked 23 days in 2012), and I can at least find a part time job somewhere, somehow.

To everyone on this board, I hope everyone has a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year and that all of your hopes and dreams come true.

about me... - anon

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I don't like the person I have become in the last year. Know what my last New Year's resolution was? To take the CMT exam. Ha.

This time last year, my refrigerator was full, I cooked regularly, took my 2 dogs to walk in the park several times a week, worked on cross stitch projects, read books, exercised, kept my house really clean and kept up with laundry.

All that is like a distant memory to me now. Work has changed me into an exhausted shell. I can't concentrate on hobbies I used to love because I'm preoccupied with hoping my next paycheck is enough to pay my bills before I get a shutoff notice. Wow how quickly things change.

But this is not meant to be a depressing post. I'm in school now for something I love, and I can't wait to get out of MT. Just seeing that goal and working on it puts a little pep in my step.

I hope you look into going to art school someday. You never know what other doors could open.

You want a side job cross-stitching some - christmas stockings for me?

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I have these 4 beautiful cross-stitched stockings that were hand made for me, my husband and my 2 daughters, but now I have 2 grandchildren, and no stockings for them. Let me know how much you would charge to make them and personalize them with their names.

Being a MT and a medical scribe... - MT2

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Although I understand fully what you are saying in your reply, I'm too old and I'm not interested in changing careers right now. I guess I'll just stick it out in the MT world, however I am very interested in learning to be a scribe, perhaps a "transcriptionist/scribe." God Bless!

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