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[BirdieGal]

I forgot, there is also WAHM.com

[chrystaltree]

I don't think there are any work from home jobs available to people with no solid skills and who are not already working for a company that offers that to employees.  That's just a myth.  Yes, working from home is becoming more common in some fields.  Generally, it's highly skilled professionals.    I actually work from home now and my company is offering it to many others who really do not have to be onsite.  Office space is expensive and it's cheaper to send people home to work but new hires don't have that option.  People who have attendance issues don't have that option either.  My former sister in law is a customer service rep for an online retailer, she works from home now but she had to work in the office for two years before she was allowed to work remotely.  I don't what you are referring to by "trust".  I think if there's some company or whatever that says they can find a remote job for you, they are lying and probably charge a fee for work they can't secure for anyone.  

[BirdieGal]

They do exist. I had/have skills and did work from home and not working in the same b&m business first. There are scams so one must be careful. 

[GenXmuse]

The Disney Store is hiring online workers. 

[kitcat51]

My neighbor works from home for UPS, she handles customer complaints & other questions. She trained online, had to pass a test & now is monitored for performance... holidays are difficult but all in all she likes it. The at home head hunter service she used had a long list of companies to choose from, even Disney booking vacation packages. Good Luck with your search.

[Moonchilde]

Doing medical transcription from home is very far from a scam; the majority of medical transcription in the US is done from home. 

One cannot do medical transcription cold without a great deal of not only training, but practice before a first job. Literally years of training and practice. Seriously. Years.

The old back-of-the-magazine "learn transcription" ads were misleading not so much because there were no jobs (at that time there were tons of jobs) but because the training they offered was never even close to sufficient.

Today, you might get a service to take you on for doctor's office notes (which use the least medical terminology) IF you have a very good aptitude for English spelling and grammar. But you are usually paid a pittance per line and beginners usually work the graveyard shift.

The only bona fide ways to learn medical transcription to the ability level to make decent ("good" money is no longer possible IMO) is from the training modules of the American Association for Medical Transcription (costly) or many semesters at a community college and even then your knowledge won't be as thorough as AAMT's courses. But you would perhaps know enough for a supplement to income, not to support yourself.

[BirdieGal]

I had my own transcription business a long time ago (in fact my Costco card still has the business name on it). 

I did train rain for a long time for it then worked for a doctors office before I decided to venture out on my own.

Nowadays, here anyway, doctors don't use that system much anymore as there are easier and more automated ways to accomplish that. You could see it coming though.

I shut the business down when the doctors were going to more modern methods.

[chrystaltree]

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@Moonchilde wrote:

Doing medical transcription from home is very far from a scam; the majority of medical transcription in the US is done from home. 

One cannot do medical transcription cold without a great deal of not only training, but practice before a first job. Literally years of training and practice. Seriously. Years.

The old back-of-the-magazine "learn transcription" ads were misleading not so much because there were no jobs (at that time there were tons of jobs) but because the training they offered was never even close to sufficient.

Today, you might get a service to take you on for doctor's office notes (which use the least medical terminology) IF you have a very good aptitude for English spelling and grammar. But you are usually paid a pittance per line and beginners usually work the graveyard shift.

The only bona fide ways to learn medical transcription to the ability level to make decent ("good" money is no longer possible IMO) is from the training modules of the American Association for Medical Transcription (costly) or many semesters at a community college and even then your knowledge won't be as thorough as AAMT's courses. But you would perhaps know enough for a supplement to income, not to support yourself.

Thanks for that.  It's unfortunate but there still people who actually believe that there are medical transcription and medical coding jobs available to anyone.  They have no idea whatsoever about what the jobs really entail or the education or training that is required.  I'm a certified coder myself but I work as a Health Information Management specialist, not as a coder.  A lot of the transcription work is outsourced to India now. Medical coding too.   The hospital I work for has not had in house transcriptionists for many years.  The hospital my husband works for is in the process of outsourcing the majority of the medical coding to a couple of companies in India.  Every year there are fewer and fewer of those jobs for anyone.

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[OfCourse]

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@kitcat51 wrote:

My neighbor works from home for UPS, she handles customer complaints & other questions. She trained online, had to pass a test & now is monitored for performance... holidays are difficult but all in all she likes it. The at home head hunter service she used had a long list of companies to choose from, even Disney booking vacation packages. Good Luck with your search.

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@kitcat51  Can you tell me the name of the at-home head-hunter service?  I'd be very appreciative if you could.

[Moonchilde]

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@BirdieGal wrote:

I had my own transcription business a long time ago (in fact my Costco card still has the business name on it). 

I did train rain for a long time for it then worked for a doctors office before I decided to venture out on my own.

Nowadays, here anyway, doctors don't use that system much anymore as there are easier and more automated ways to accomplish that. You could see it coming though.

I shut the business down when the doctors were going to more modern methods.

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The level of knowledge and skill needed to transcribe doctors' office notes vs all departments and specialties in an acute care hospital is very different. Doing doctors' office transcription is not the largest segment of medical transcription as a whole. 

Voice recognition software is okay for the former, not so much for the latter, which has to deal not only with a greater amount of terminology but a much larger variety of accents. Accents remain the largest stumbling block to using voice recognition. Canned reports are not all that applicable outside Radiology and in limited diagnoses with Pathology.

We used to get a kick out of people who had completed the community college courses and came to interview positive they would ace any tests. They would listen to test dictation and were positive we'd given them the hardest dictation we had to test on. In reality we gave them the slowest, clearest speaking docs to test on - and all of our docs were accent-less. "No one could transcribe that!" was often the reaction.

Yes, one can learn to transcribe doctors' notes without years of training and practice and earn an income commensurate with that category. But Operative Notes to include all specialties, Oncology and Pathology, to name a small part of acute care hospital transcription is a whole different thing. To be able to transcribe it all to earn top dollar is not the same as office dictation.