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I've never been able to do MT full time - me

Posted: Jan 26, 2015

I've never been able to do MT full time because I don't have the concentration, patience, or...whatever it takes to do an 8-hour shift where I'm constantly typing every day. It's very hard on my body. I couldn't do it even in a split shift. Anyone else like this?

I had to cut down to a few hours a week and get - a different full time career

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I was at the same point as you are, about 5 years ago. What I had once enjoyed and excelled at, I started feeling caged in, bored, stagnant. Now I work full time in a non-MT career and only transcribe a few hours a week for a small company. It's the old cliche "the best of both worlds." I no longer have the back pain and eye strain I used to have. Have you thought about going into a different field of career?

Yes, I'm in school now sm - me

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School is going to take me another year, so I'll only be doing MT for another year. I wish I could do it full time until then, but it's just too hard on the body.

Good thinkin'! - sm

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It's irritating when people who have never transcribed before say things like "Oh, you used to work at home as a typist? I could do that." To which I respond in some version of the following: "A transcriptionist has a lot more skills than a typist. We have a huge knowledge base of medical terminology that most typists don't have. And working at home is still work! We don't sit around polishing our nails."

The only thing that saves me - is

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at least an hour of vigorous exercise and hopefully a short nap to keep from falling asleep before I start work every day, otherwise I couldn't stand it. Only 3 more years left in this lousy job before retirement.

We are clones - Hapless

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I work at such an intense level, I almost have to break every 2 hours. The job is so draining because we do pure work. It is hard to explain this to people who have jobs with water coolers.

I'd rather be up doing a physical job sm - me

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For 8 hours than sitting in a chair doing transcription. Like you said, people can't know how tedious transcription is unless they do it themselves for 8 hours a day.

Chair duty . . . sm - Kindred

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I've said it many times that sitting in the chair without hopping up is the hardest part of the job on most days.

It always makes me wonder how truck drivers sit behind the wheel so many hours.

Sometimes, I try to psyche myself up by visualizing that I have to drive to Tampa or what not - I have to sit "behind the wheel" and get there without too many stops!

I wish I had that choice. - mt

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I can't do it. My body is crying out. I'm getting depressed, exhausted all the time. My fingers are going numb and my eyes are having troubles. Then today got the confirmation I now have diabetes. I cannot do this anymore, but I have no choice I have to pull 8 hours and more because many times there are no jobs during my shift. If I don't work I don't get paid. I cannot afford to be without my job. Once DH can find a job then hoping I can cut back to part time. I feel like I'm not able to take care of myself like I used to. Just feel like I'm cycling through hell.

I hear ya! - Depleted

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I know exactly what your talking about. I just had an epidural injection yesterday in my back because it kills me to sit and type. Not any better today. I will give it time. But, I have no choice because I have to take care of my kids because their deadbeat so called father thinks he isn't obligated to support his children. Exercise and taking a nap if you can, but its hard when time is money.

I'm sorry sm - me

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I'm sorry for your health problems, and I sympathize with you so much. I don't have a choice either, and I definitely need full time pay. I am beyond broke. I have nerve damage issues, so it makes it that much more painful for me to do transcription 8 hours a day.

I am going to school for something else, but for right now, I wish I could do transcription for 4 hours a day, and another for 4 hours a day, something that isn't so hard on my body. And that isn't so frustrating. And that pays hourly, so we don't have to struggle to pay bills when there is no transcription work. I'm looking into that now.

Yes, this job can be torture having to type - CINDY

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Having to type 8 hours straight as fast as possible, I relate this to torture and have for the last few years.

I quit MT a couple of years ago to go to CNA and I lost 30 pounds. Funny though I have been doing MT again for the past year and a couple months and haven't gained the weight back.

I have an interview with a local supermarket and hope I get it, they have great benefits and you even get like a week pay for Christmas bonus, I heard. Anyway, I am hoping to lose another 20 or 30 if I get that job.

This job is very hard on the body, everytime I sit down I start falling asleep.

Nobody really thinks this is a hard physical job, but it is.

I agree. sm - me

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I hope you get the job at the supermarket!

The physical part of MT, plus the frustration of figuring out what the inconsiderate, fast talking, slurring doctors are trying to say, plus the way our pay keeps going down, and how inconsiderately we're treated by companies while the suits are rolling in dough, and how our work keeps getting sent to other countries...it's all too much.

It is stressful . . . - Kindred

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Between my job and husband's business slowing to a screeching halt, we are having rough times too.

I hope the other poster gets the job at the supermarket too! It sure would be nice to buy some cute clothes and talk to people for a change (and a regular paycheck)! Good luck!

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