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medical transcription working from home - roni


Posted: Jan 21, 2015

i am currrently in school how hard is it to get a job from home in transcription or coding?

Not hard at all - Now, ask how hard it is

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to make a living wage.

Well - see msg

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For MT, you would still have to pass a transcription test with a company, and that would include punctuation and capitalization and all forms of grammar.

Depends. Whatcha in school for? - no msg yet

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NM

work from home - did you not

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did you research any of this BEFORE you took any classes for transcription? Medical is not the thing to do anymore just so you can "work from home." No work, not enough pay to live on, or buy groceries. Just GET OUT NOW. If you are young enough, go back to school, but research what you want to do first. Been doing this over 40 years and have gone from $40,000 a year to minimum wage. You figure it out from there.


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