Work From Home Doing Medical
Transcription Submitted By: Chris Dunn
I never thought working having my wife work from home as a medical
transcriptionist could be so rewarding. Sure, we all have dreams of
working from home. The ten second commute, the comfort of dressing
casually and not having anyone looking over your shoulder constantly
or second guessing the timing of your next bathroom break. I mean
who needs the hassle? Unfortunately for most of us, the work from
home option is just not a real option. I mean we have bills to pay,
and a lifestyle to support and our boss is, well, let's not get too
personal here, but our boss is simply not interested in letting us
live the work from home lifestyle.
I can tell you from experience that the work from home environment
changes everything. It adds so much flexibility and peace of mind
that you wonder why you didn't make the sacrifice to get it done years
before. You immediately escape the daily commute (both ways) and the
perfunctory appearances and the mandatory glad handing. To work at
home is as real as it gets. None of that phony stuff. Pretending to
enjoy being somewhere we really don't want to be is hard on our emotional
psyche and our self esteem. We are not being true to ourselves or
our dreams.
As my wife and I were researching our options, it quickly became clear
that there were a very limited number of plausible options to be able
to work from home. Stuffing envelopes at home was a total hoax. Amway
and other multi-level marketing plans lacked a certain appeal. We
were looking for something more professional. A work from home career
that you could feel good about while making a good living. It had
to be a work from home job that was in demand and that required specialized
training that could be acquired part time and at our own pace and
that would preclude just any warm body off the streets from entering
into the business and competing with us and watering down our wages.
After a lot of painstaking thought and effort we narrowed our list
of work from home options
down to one single opportunity: Medical transcription.The fact that
almost 100% of medical transcriptionists work from home had a huge
appeal. The fact that medical transcription is an extremely high growth
career in the healthcare profession was even better. This meant job
security. And the fact that it only required 9-12 months of specialized
part-time training to get started sold us.