For the very first time in my life, I have a mentor. (Does this make me a padawan? Or merely an apprentice?) I'm not really sure what mentors are good for, but apparently mine likes to check in by phone once a week to do evaluations and "touch base" (I hope to work the word synergy into my next work-related injury update). Yesterday I had my first evaluation. It took about 4 minutes.
My goals for last week (apparently I had some?) were to transcribe 1500 lines, reduce non-critical errors by 50%, and achieve an accuracy of 96%. I had vaguely been keeping track of my accuracy rates and knew I was doing pretty well, but I didn't bother to do any fancy arithmetic to figure out an average. Frankly, Dear Reader, I don't give a damn. Maybe it's the ADHD, but I tend to gauge things like that pretty accurately just by how I feel about them. I guess that sounds dumb. Or maybe delusional. Egotistical? At any rate, I know I'm good at what I do, so I don't ever sweat it much. The weird thing is, I think the reason I'm so good at transcribing is because I work very intuitively. I know the rules well but couldn't repeat them back to you -- they just pop up out of my subconscious when I need them and then fade away again.
Mentor said she basically had nothing to discuss with me because I was doing phenomenally well -- my accuracy rate is literally almost perfect. My production for last week was 1779 lines, which is "189% of predicted." My accuracy was 99.3%. God, I hope they promote me. I'll make a whole 'nother cent per line!
Most of all, I wish I was this good at something that actually offered fair wages. The work I do is important, and I am simply too skilled to be making $9-$10 an hour. That's not bragging -- I got lucky with this career. My therapist suggested it to me as a way to work from home, and it just so happened that it's a perfect fit for me and the way my brain works. Add to that the fact that I had a pretty solid base of medical knowledge via osmotic transfer from living with [Him] for all those years as well as my uncanny ability to remember obscure facts, and it was a match made in heaven. I love doing it. I just wish it loved me back.
