Are you wondering if the “work from home typist” ads that you see online are legitimate? After all, they’re saying that you can make thousands of dollars every week just from typing a few hours a day. Can this really be true?
There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that no, you cannot get rich doing part-time typing from home. Sorry, but it’s just not true. Those ads are work-at-home scams designed to lure you in by the promise of quick and easy riches, and then take your money in exchange for sending you the “secrets” of how to get rich by typing.
The good news is that if you have strong typing skills, if you’re fast and accurate, there are ways to earn money typing from home. Transcription is big business online, thanks to the global economy and to voice recorders. More and more business people are recording their notes, letters and manuscripts, and need fast and accurate typists to transform them into word processing documents for print.
Transcription typing requires a good command of the English language (if that’s the language you’re transcribing) as well as speed and accuracy. They need to be able to finish a transcription project quickly, and be available whenever a project comes in. There are several online companies that will hire a work from home typist, like AccuTranGlobal.com, Tigerfsh.com, Speak-Write.com and Expedict.co.uk and KeyForCash.com.
Typically, transcription companies use typists who are independent contractors. This means they don’t pay any employee benefits like Social Security, medical insurance, or paid holidays. It also means that they notify you when there’s work available, or that you check in on a periodic basis to find out whether or not there is work to be done.
If you’re looking for a full-time income typing from home, your best bet would be to sign up with several transcription companies so that you can keep your work schedule full. You can also place bids on freelance sites like elance.com and guru.com for transcription projects when they come up.
If you want to type from home, but the thought of being an independent contractor scares you, then you have to look for a job at a company that hires typists and allows them to work from home. You may be able to find companies in your community that hire typists, like law firms or companies that generate a lot of print material. If you can convince them that you are reliable enough to work offsite, you may be able to create your own work from home typist job.
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