I had a chance to have lunch with an officemate and these past two days we were able to talk and at the same time joke about how it is when sometimes we earn less than we usually do since we earn by how many files we make in a day and sometimes if you are unlucky, your assigned doctors may transfer to other facilities or their files are given to other transcriptionists and other circumstances so it means less files for us or even no files at all. I also had my share of having no files or less files at some point so i know how it feels. She is just experiencing it now since she used to have the most number of files a day among other transcriptionists and now she is earning less as compared before because her assigned doctor got an electronic medical record so he will not be needing a transcriptionist to transcribe his notes but then even if she is earning less now, the one thing that she said that made me think over is "COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS." She said she may not be earning much as she did before but she is still lucky that she has work still in which she is thankful for.
Admittedly, i feel bad when i earn less or less files come on some days. On the other hand, when files come in bulk and i have to work for long hours, i feel tired and sort of complain that i have to work hard and go home tired and the "COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS" statement made me realized more that im blessed to have a decent job, i can buy things that i need, i can eat good food, i can watch movies, i can go to the beach, i can enjoy some good day out with friends, i have people who love me and i love and some other things to count. Of course, i want to have more out of life (who doensn't?) but at this point in time, i can say life is overall good and im just living within my means. It may not be an extravagant life that most of us want but i can say that i have more blessings that i have to count than whine about.
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