The Hazards of Being a Transcriptionist

This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Thanks! Although transcriptionists don’t run the same health risks as other professions, there are still some very real health problems that transcriptionists can run into. One is aching and hurting wrists. Many people who type day in and day out end up developing arthritis in their hands and have to have surgery done to repair the damage (my mother just underwent hand surgery for this reason–hi … Continue reading

Well, What about Legal and General Transcriptionists–Are They Outdated?

This blog is part of a series on transcription. If you haven’t read the other blogs in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all transcription blogs. Thanks! Legal and general transcription are even less prone to VR (voice recognition) technology than MT work. General transcription usually consists of transcribing many different people every single day, which VR technology is in no way ready to tackle. I have transcribed focus groups talking about whatever random topic they were assigned (cell phones, schooling and teachers, ant killing chemicals,) and I had great difficulty understanding … Continue reading

Week in Review for April 21 – 27

Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for April 21 – 27. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week! This week, we had a lot of fun talking about transcription, and then medical transcription in particular. If you have any feedback or comments, feel free to either leave a comment below or get in touch with me at Hava L {at} Families dot com! Thanks for reading! Saturday, April 21 Are Medical Transcriptionists Going the Way of Dinosaurs? talks about the idea that most people seem to … Continue reading

An Introduction to Transcription

Hello, and welcome to my series on the transcription field! I decided to focus on transcription because many of the readers here at Families are stay-at-home mothers and fathers who are interested in finding work they can do at home, and transcription is one of the few legitimate work-at-home jobs out there that does not require you to be on the phones all day long. I hope this series helps people who have never heard of the field to understand what it is, what personality traits you ought to have to be a transcriptionist, and how to get started if … Continue reading