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The “Two Years Experience” Fallacy

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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. Now that you’ve graduated, you’ve hit the want ads online, and you may have become a little panicked when you saw that many companies required two years experience, and some even required three or four. This can be extremely discouraging to newbies, and seems to fly right in the face of what I said earlier, that this is a huge work-at-home market, and that you should … Continue reading →

Deschooling: The Fallacy of Comparing Children

One of the boldest arguments that I’ve ever heard against homeschooling is to compare children. When my son did not know how to write his letters or the sounds of the letters by age 4, people around us were up in arms about our homeschooling practices. One particular acquaintance pointed out that her son was in an all day preschool program and he could write all of his letters and numbers and knew most of their sounds. Perhaps it was time to admit that I’m not so good at this homeschooling thing after all. Meanwhile, my poor illiterate son was … Continue reading →

Week in Review for May 5 – 11

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Hello, and welcome to the Week in Review for May 5 – 11. This is my way of catching you up on any blogs you may have missed in the past week–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, May 5 Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Three and Four continue the interview started last week with my alma matter Career Step. Sunday, May 6 Medical Transcription Schools: Career Step, Part Five and Six finish that … Continue reading →

The Technical Aspect of Working at Home as a Medical Transcriptionist

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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. I just discussed how medical transcription work is primarily done at home, and I wanted to focus on how you actually do the job at home, how everything works together, and what an MT company requires of you. The most common scenario is this: A doctor sees a patient and after the patient leaves, the doctor dictates into a handheld digital recorder everything that was said … Continue reading →

An Introduction to Transcription

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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 →