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Company just switched over to VR. sm - houndlady

Posted: Apr 29, 2010

How long is reasonable to get yourself up to speed on a new VR platform before you throw in the towel? I know it learns as it goes, but it doesn't seem to be learning very much, very fast, to me.

I'll let you know if it ever happens... - nm

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VR - MT

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In the perfect world with perfect dictators, you might actually get fast at it. Otherwise, forget it.

In the same boat - Soon to be poor

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If I don't pick up speed soon, I'm going to have to look for a different job. Aside from VR being very boring, I can't seem to make any money.

DITTO - n/m

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I gave VR an entire year before I finally gave up - No more VR for me

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Obviously, I was pretty slow on VR when I was first trained on it. Most of my increase of speed came over the first month. Then over about the next 5 months, increasing my speed gradually ground down to a halt.

Then, from about 6 months to a year, it pretty much stayed the same, and I never could get my speed up any faster no matter what I tried and no matter what I did.

The VR engine never did learn like they said it would, because by 1 year into it, I was still correcting the exact same mistakes that I was correcting in the beginning.

So, after a year of VR, I said enough. My company said they couldn't switch me back to straight typing, so I quit and went to work for another company (straight typing and no VR).

These MTSOs that have VR all seem to think that it's about the best thing since sliced bread...but THEY are not the ones working on it and THEY are not the ones who are slowly going broke with the lower pay. Eventually, I think, there will be very few skilled MTs left who will be willing to work on VR for the wages that they're offering. If I'm going to have to work for miniumum wage or near minimum wage, I think I'd rather go work at Wal-Mart or McDonald's where there's a lot less stress and a lot less specialized knowledge involved.

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