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I have never felt more worthless in my life. I work for about half the pay, it takes longer to do because the drafts are so awful. You get marked down if you don't use shortcut keys to navigate or whatever and the object is to keep you fingers on the keyboard, but you cannot keep them in the position you need to for transcribing or fixing all the problems. I find my right hand is always on the control+delete key or end key, and my fingers constantly on the period or comma. The commands are just not user friendly nor are they well thought out. No one wants to hear that the editor is bad, you just do your job and don't rock the boat or they will tip you right out into the ocean. I have had reports that were so bad that other than a few things like and, the, if, was, is, were, etc., there was not 1 word in the entire report that matched what the dictator said. It takes me more than 12 hours a day to make what I used to make transcribing in 6 hours on the same account.
I am too old to learn a new profession, have little or no social or family support, and to be honest, this is actually making me suicidal. Oh, well, let the big cats in transcend get rich at the expense of everyone else. They simply do not care.