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I dislike learning transcription software - me

Posted: Feb 04, 2015

Information gets thrown at you through training, and it doesn't all absorb right away, and you don't know what you're doing for a while. i hate that feeling of not being confident working with the software.

I've had jobs where all you had to do was look at a list, match it to the patient, and type. (or jobs where very little learning of sofware was involved.). I wish I had a job like that again. Added to the annoyance are the IM programs, punching webclocks, special e-mail programs. etc., I wish I didn't have to take this job, yet I am lucky to have a job. Sigh.

This is the toughest job and position I have ever been in - catch 22

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I hear you on your last comment. Lucky to have a job. Unfortunately that plays against us (or maybe just me).

I'm pretty computer savvy, but like you when you first start a program I feel lost. That is how I felt about 5 years ago when I learned the program I am working on. Then I became a whiz and flew through it (ranging anywhere from 1400-1600 lines a day), then they changed things around. Finally got good with it, then the system decided to throw paragraphs at the bottom of the document, start putting certain words in upper cases for no reason, started putting in sentences that were never dictated, not putting in things that were dictated. Sometimes I have to hunt and peck for a section and while I am in the middle of moving it where it belongs it keeps jumping back to where it was and does not below. I thought VR/SR was supposed to be editing small things like grammar and punctuation. Now it takes me twice as long and I'm still no where near what I used to be able to do (I'm now between 600-800 lines and I can't seem to get more, which I know I can do because I did it in the past before all these changes).

I'm trying to improve my skills to get a better paying job, yet have no time to better my skills because I have to work all the time and I'm still not able to make ends meet, but with no other income coming in just feel stuck, yet lucky to have a job.

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