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Im pregnant. I lost my job. What now?
That is the situation I found myself in recently. I was luckier than some: I had my husband, and he still had a job. Unfortunately, we knew his income would not be enough to support us and our new addition. I began a job search in the usual way: networking, looking through the classified advertisements every day, and generally trying to get my resume into the hands of those who might have an open position I could fill. During this search, one of my husbands clients mentioned an open medical transcription position.

I was immediately interested, as I had heard of medical transcription as a growing field with possible work-from-home opportunities and a good pay rate. The more I thought about what I knew of medical transcription, the more it appealed to me. The advantages of a growing human career path that cannot be replaced by computers, independent work, and the possibility of setting my own schedule and making a good salary (even part-time) were irresistible. Still, I knew that it was unlikely I would qualify for such a position with no medical training and no formal transcription experience.

I believe here in Philippines most people who are graduates of medical courses wanted to be part of the medical team. For instance, like medical transcriptionist or any department of medical aspects. Why I wanted on this job is like I am dealing with patient diagnosis thru physician. It is like we have team up with the doctors. I like this job its like new to me and its a challenge what I want to face and I have been dreaming to be a medical transcriptionist consultant someday. There is significant story behind why I wanted to joint this job. Because I was then frustrated to become a doctor the fact that I was enrolled in business courses and proceed to bachelor of laws. But then few years after I studied nursing maybe this will help me back to which I wanted. I am under board for now in nursing. Maybe in this field I can pursue my dreams to be a transcriber which involves converting or transcribing voice recorded reports of physicians into text format.

The advantages in working medical transcription jobs are that I could encounter a lot of medical terminologies which is so encouraging and knowledgeable advantage for me because I am a medical student. I could practice also my nursing education by encountering different sickness and diagnosis of a patient. It may all sound encouraging and easy for me because I have my own time at home. I have been stock in the web all the time I have this flexibility hours. I was then practicing designing before like doing designs of Photoshop and web designs though it is not productive because I am not earning out of it. So I decided to choose another option which will give me benefits like transcribing wherein, somehow I can help physician transcribe. I can assure you I have all the time in transcribing for this moments one thing because I am jobless and I have 2 laptop and one desktop wherein I make most of the time in net.