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General transcription? - just researching

Posted: Jan 09, 2015

I gave up on MT as a career and am working in a different industry. I've always loved transcribing and writing and I really miss it. I googled "transcription jobs online" and was surprised at the number of sites that came up. Some were non-medical, some were both. I haven't explored them in depth yet. Just wondering if anyone has gone this route and had any success? Any good or bad names to share? Feel free to PM me if they can't be mentioned here.

The online ones don't pay very well. Better - to get out of transcription altogether.

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general transcription - sue

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I worked for 10 years or so for a marketing and research company doing this. The last year or so it seemed more of her transcription had very poor audio and I am thinking the work she was getting was mostly poor quality. This is something you will run into more with this kind of work, as many amateurs will do recordings and then they get upset when the work comes back with blanks, etc. After 10 years of working for her, she told me the quality of my work wasn't the same. The newer people she had on board were making less than me, and I just think that's the trend to charge less for general transcription since medical has went downhill, they think they can charge less also for the work. Not good pay, I just think they are wanting to become like medical, lower pay all the time.

What a shame - just researching

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that MT knowledge and good writing skills are not valued anymore. It's a huge pet peeve of mine when I read news and editorial websites online and they have the most blatant errors (it's vs. its, "seperate", terrible sentence construction, etc.) and I wonder if writing is becoming a dying art or something!

But I digress.

I still want to use my skills in some writing capacity, either through freelance or something. Just not sure how or where to start.

Thanks for your input!

I work part-time....sm - Rita

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After losing my 20-year MT job due to outsourcing to Nuance and refusing to work for them, I got hired fairly quickly by a general transcription company. So now I am living on unemployment and this part-time general transcription job. I get 75 cents to $1 an audio minute (depending on when the job is due. It has nothing to do with audio quality or subject matter). This comes out to $12 to $15 an hour IF the audio is good. To me, the work is much easier than medical. What also takes time is the research I do for unfamiliar terms because I am dealing with so many different companies.

For anyone considering this, try to get with a company that pays close to $1 an audio minute. Otherwise, it does not make financial sense.

There is a TON of information on the internet. Make sure you know what the pay is before you even apply as some companies pay peanuts. For every 15 minutes of GOOD dictation, it takes about one hour to type AND proof.

Thank you, this is very helpful! (nm) - OP

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Not a bad part-time job. Certainly beats the low pay - in MT without the QA crap.

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General Transcription - Kindred

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Same here, do general as a side gig when things get slow. Like the other poster, definitely try to stay around $1 a minute. I would not want to do it all the time, but it is a nice change from medical.

I found a nice little typing gig on Craig's list.

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