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What's more lucrative - VR editing or transcription? - kachinakate

Posted: Mar 22, 2012

I have transcribed for 22 years. This week I started to learn VR editing. I am making less than minimum wage. Will my pace pick up to match my transcription pay equivalent to $3,000 a month or should I stick with transcription?

typing - me

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I prefer to type. You have to do twice the work for the same pay and I can type faster with my own templates and keystrokes. I made way more $$$ straight typing than VR anyday. Plus VR gets boring and very mind numbing starring at the screen all day without being able to look away like you could if you were typing. I say stick with typing, VR took me about 7 months to get average pay and hit the 250 lines per hour mark, not to mention how good or bad it works.

The only ones who make money - off VR

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are the MTSOs. You work harder to make them more money.

Editing - sm

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Well, call me rigid if you like, but I haven't tried VR yet and don't plan to. In fact, the decision to leave MT was already made for me this very week, because my primary account assignment transitioned to VR (to be edited inhouse), so I have almost no work.

I'm nearly half crazy as it is from 22 years of listening to doctors at warp speed and typing until my hands ache. When I'm finished for the day, I walk around in a daze for a few hours while I crank things back to normal speed. My friends say I should give VR a try, but I don't have the temperament for it, and I honestly can't suffer the concomitant loss of wages. I wish I knew what I could do in its place and am hoping I can wait it (the economy) out until there are other opportunities.

I'm happy for those of you who are doing well on VR! I wish you the very best! Maybe my departure will leave a little more of the pie for the rest of you.

Good luck to all of us!

If you have a choice, stick with transcription until - you have no other choice but

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to go to VR. Your pace will pick up, but it takes time. It has taken me 2 months to adjust and see myself pick-up the necessary speed to be successful at it.

It's a totally different mindset then typing. Before you were creating the document and for us (transcriptionist) typing is like second nature, its something we do without having to think about it you can go off into a daydream and be thinking about whats for dinner or what errands you have to run and yet, your mind still captures everything the dictator says and your fingers will move to the rhythm of his voice.

But with VR its a whole different ballgame, no day dreaming allowed, you basically are speed reading the document along with dictation, while making corrections, formatting, and adding punctuation.

It is very fast-paced and takes sometime to get use to. It to me is nothing like straight transcription, it takes a different mindset. And forget those home keys that you have used over the years.

Your now home keys are CTRL, shift, ALT, and the arrow keys. Along with a new set of shortcut keyboard commands.

Definitly a whole new ballgame and it does take your brain sometime to adjust. It is doable though, you just gotta be one of those who embrace change and put your mind to it, but once you adjust and get the rhythm of it, you do get faster.

I don't see ever making $3000 a month... - no way

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...at 3 or 4 cents per line. Working 40 hours a week, that's close to 450 lph. I might be able to do that for an hour, but not a whole shift. I know there are some here who say they do that regularly, but if I'm really hauling and have a great day with very little to research and no doctor names to try to track down, I MIGHT do 350/hr for the shift -- and my right wrist feels like it's gonna snap by the time I'm done.

3 and 4 cpl line rates should be banned. It ought - to be a law against it.

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It is a total rip-off and the whole idea that you will double your line count with VR is insane.

I mean seriously, you still have to listen to the dictation and many MTs can type at the speed of the dictation straight through.

So unless each and every single report is perfect and requires no mistakes and you crank the speed up as fast as it will go, I can't see doubling your line count.

I believe you can increase it, but to double it is far fetched.

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