Oh some days you will want to rip your hair out. The accents, fast talkers... until you get used to who is on your hospital account it can be a tough few weeks. :eek:
Thank God there's a thread here for MT, I'm studying MT right now and on my 3rd month. Our exercises are actual dictations from doctors and it's true that it's frustrating sometimes especially, if they're dictating while driving or in the elevator, eating, phones ringing and when they're talking fast 
mtmomj wrote:Oh some days you will want to rip your hair out. The accents, fast talkers... until you get used to who is on your hospital account it can be a tough few weeks. :eek:
I'm sure it's like a lot of things, once you get the hang of it, not too bad
Raquelita wrote:How much would you typically get paid if you typed approximately 80 wpm? I did transcription in an office environment for a summer and it got really boring after awhile, but i was pretty good at it. And does it get annoying to have to replay the tape again and again for certain sections? Do you feel it helped you learn about medical related things?
Is the pay really on words per minute? Which is better lines per day or wpm?
Actually, it gets frustrating more than annoying for me. Especially if the dictation is pretty fast and hard to follow and hear.
Most company require a certain line requirement a day that you have to reach. 500 lines per day is typical for part-time. All companies pretty much pay per line.. a line is based on 65 characters. Some might offer a lower pay rate, but on gross line basis, and some base a line on 75 characters. The standard that I've seen for most companies is pay per 65 character line. Some companies don't even pay for spaces :eek: which I think is just ridiculous because you do have to hit a space bar, right? Then there are some that pay per 10-11 word line. There are a few too that pay per character. So many variables!