| I never thought working having my wife work | | | | marketing plans lacked a certain appeal. We were |
| from home as a medical transcriptionist could be | | | | looking for something more professional. A work |
| so rewarding. Sure, we all have dreams of | | | | from home career that you could feel good about |
| working from home. The ten second commute, | | | | while making a good living. It had to be a work |
| the comfort of dressing casually and not having | | | | from home job that was in demand and that |
| anyone looking over your shoulder constantly or | | | | required specialized training that could be acquired |
| second guessing the timing of your next | | | | part time and at our own pace and that would |
| bathroom break. I mean who needs the hassle? | | | | preclude just any warm body off the streets |
| Unfortunately for most of us, the work from | | | | from entering into the business and competing |
| home option is just not a real option. I mean we | | | | with us and watering down our wages. |
| have bills to pay, and a lifestyle to support and | | | | After a lot of painstaking thought and effort we |
| our boss is, well, let's not get too personal here, | | | | narrowed our list of work from home options |
| but our boss is simply not interested in letting us | | | | down to one single opportunity: Medical |
| live the work from home lifestyle. | | | | transcription. |
| I can tell you from experience that the work | | | | The fact that almost 100% of medical |
| from home environment changes everything. It | | | | transcriptionists work from home had a huge |
| adds so much flexibility and peace of mind that | | | | appeal. The fact that medical transcription is an |
| you wonder why you didn't make the sacrifice to | | | | extremely high growth career in the healthcare |
| get it done years before. You immediately escape | | | | profession was even better. This meant job |
| the daily commute (both ways) and the | | | | security. And the fact that it only required 9-12 |
| perfunctory appearances and the mandatory glad | | | | months of specialized part-time training to get |
| handing. To work at home is as real as it gets. | | | | started sold us. |
| None of that phony stuff. Pretending to enjoy | | | | We couldn't wait to get started! |
| being somewhere we really don't want to be is | | | | Unfortunately, at that time there were not many |
| hard on our emotional psyche and our self | | | | formalized training programs available. That was |
| esteem. We are not being true to ourselves or | | | | the bad news. The good news is that my wife's |
| our dreams. | | | | mother had been doing medical transcription for |
| As my wife and I were researching our options, it | | | | many years. The opportunity was right under our |
| quickly became clear that there were a very | | | | nose all this time -- we had just never done the |
| limited number of plausible options to be able to | | | | research. And more importantly, the timing was |
| work from home. Stuffing envelopes at home | | | | finally starting to be right for us. We had two |
| was a total hoax. Amway and other multi-level | | | | small children at home and one on the way. |