Home sweet home! How many of us would have cursed pausing at different stoplights, driving through erratic crowd, dust, heat and sunshine while commuting to and fro office? How many of us would have got irrigated by the crawling traffic at various traffic jams traveling back and forth office? How many of us would have craved to have a work-at-home job? Yes, in the field of medical transcription, one can swipe off the above curses and utilize the tremendous advantage of working from home, i.e., home transcription.

Pros and cons of home transcription

Pros:

• Flexible working hours.
• More working hours as you save traveling time, thereby more earnings.
• Eves can take care of homemaking and kids along with work.
• One tends to develop more of an entrepreneurial mindset than of an employee.
• Stress free.

Cons:

• Distractions: TV, mixer/grinder, guests, kids, other visitors like direct marketing folks, phone.
• Lethargy/lazy being at home.
• May miss the current scenario unless one gets deeply involved in discussions with people of same field.
• The payment being production based, tendency to overwork would spring in.

Can I work from home?

You certainly can, provided you are well experienced and confident of handling work independently to meet the requirements of the employer and have an intense urge to learn and update your knowledge and keep improving. Many MTs have benefited from this option and are doing well at home. The documents a medical transcriptionist produce are healthcare related, there is no room for error and should be strictly confidential too. So anyone stepping into home transcription will be rigorously screened and you cannot directly start your career as a home transcriptionist.

Since pros outweigh cons and if you are self determined enough to overcome these cons, then home transcription would be the ultimate choice than working at an office/hospital provided you have adequate backup for power, internet, computer peripherals etc. It would also be interesting to read the article “The positives and negatives of working from home on the internet” before you begin with.

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