Author: criscollrj

NaBloPoMo, work at home

And what does she do for a living?

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http://nablopomo.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=997435%3ABlogPost%3A98016

2020 – this is a confusing post — will have to see if these are excerpts from my old transcription site?  Note to self to check this out. 

 

I have been a transcriptionist on and off since 1999 (and actually also transcribed at work from 1988 until 2003 also as a legal secretary). I love it. I have always typed, since I was 11, and taught myself of an old blue manual typewriter. I type about 110 words per minute, and make a LOT of mistakes. But the trusty spell check and good proofreading skills help me out —

From my blog that is barely begun at www.line-bright.com —

How I got into transcription — written in 2001

I thought an intro of how the typing business really took off might be fitting here… From my old web site—

Stay tuned for the REST of the story – how my typing business idea took shape as long ago as 1993, and how things have panned out since 2001….

My intro and how I got started in all this!! It took 7 years, and if I would have all these tips at my fingertips it may not have taken me that long! Now, I’m in legal and corporate transcription, so that’s what I’m familiar with, so these specific sites may help a transcriptionist more than another kind of at-home worker. However, the workaholics4hire.com and the money-making mommies site both list other kinds of jobs. I, however, have no experience in those other jobs or how many might be listed or their legitimacy.

I would very much appreciate any more sites any others may have on other kinds of legitimate work-at-home jobs in order to make this site as helpful as possible!

* workaholics4hire.com/ Telecommuting Jobs Database Listings for telecommuters/workers at home, including a free job search page and newsletter. I obtained two of my at-home employers at this site.
* MTDAILY.COM Site for transcriptionists, including medical, legal, and general transcriptionists sharing boards and job search boards, among other helpful links. You can specifically look here for companies that actively hire legal transcriptionists and sometimes also general transcriptionists:
current note: This is now a paid site, but there are still a lot of good areas on there, some that are free.
* A little collection of mom’s comments that work at home doing MT (medical transcription): http://www.mtdaily.com/mt1/children.html
* http://www.mtdaily.com/faq.html All about Medical Transcription, if you are interested in getting into that field!  I personally would like to learn a whole lot more about it once Ryan is in school and I can return to school myself, to broaden my area of business a little.
current note: I probably won’t be doing this now, but it’s amazing how many areas of transcription there are!
* http://www.moneymakingmommy.com/ MONEY-MAKING MOMMY job site, including transcriptionist jobs.
* http://www.emediamillworks.com FDCH, nka EMEDIAMILLWORKS, a company for which I have type conference transcription. This consists of typing, over the internet, with a Start-Stop pedal, conference calls of various businesses that they do quarterly. They have very busy
periods quarterly in the year during which you can do a lot of work.
* http://www.aaert.org/docs.htm An example of the type of legal transcription I do, although I am not a court reporter, so this site consists of some court reporting information that I’m not real
familiar with! But those type of typing samples is what I do in my legal transcription job:
* http://www.aaert.org/docs2.htm#feds
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Recent Entries
o How I got into transcription — written in 2001
o Simple web page making
o Goal for this site –

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health, NaBloPoMo

NaBloPoMo who?

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What?

Ha ha. I’ve seen this but never checked what it is. Now I know. Get some new readers and make some new friends by joining this group that is for posting every day in November. Cool idea!

I just noticed too that I posted already 3x in November and didn’t even realize it, after being absent for a while, so — that’s a good thing!

Now, to get here every day, while I have kids sick at home tomorrow being day 11 straight and finish how many more minutes of my hearing? Probably about 45, which I really need to do tonight and may be just too tired to do…

So off of here I go — I guess I COPY this over there?

clueless—

 

life, NaBloPoMo

Songs for the spirit in the trying times.

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We are going through trying times right now for some reason and these songs are a comfort:

As We Seek Your Face
As We Seek Your Face (Jesus Draw Me Close)

G D/F# Em7/D
Jesus draw me close
C G/B Dsus D
Closer Lord to You
G D/F# Em7 C Dsus D
Let the world around me fade away

G D/F# Em7/D
Jesus draw me close
C G/B Dsus D
Closer Lord to You
C D Em7 D Gsus G
For I desire to worship and obey

G D/F# Em7 G D/F# Em7
As we seek your face, may we know your heart
G D Em7 C
Feel your presence, acceptance
G D G
As we seek your face

G D/F# Em7 G D/F# Em7
At your feet we fall, sovereign Lord
G D Em7 C
We cry holy, ho- ly,
G D G
At Your feet we fall

G D/F# Em7/D
Jesus draw me close
C G/B Dsus D
Closer Lord to You
G D/F# Em7 C Dsus D
Let the world around me fade away

G D/F# Em7/D
Jesus draw me close
C G/B Dsus D
Closer Lord to You
C D Em7 D Gsus G
For I desire to worship and obey

Public Domain
Words and Music by Unverified

(verse 1)
Great is Thy faithfulness
O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not
Thy compassions they fail not
As Thou hast been Thou forever will be

(chorus)
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning new mercies I see
All I have needed They hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness Lord unto me

(verse2)
Pardon for sin
And a peace that endureth
Thine own dear presence
To cheer and to guide
Strength for today
And bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine
With ten thousand beside

I woke up singing one in my head one day and the other the next. I know the Lord put them in my heart to give me strength through the days.

NaBloPoMo, work, work at home

Funny things said at work

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This was in response to a “what was the funniest thing you typed” post at the transcription board —

“These are all so funny! I keep trying to think of one I’ve done and I’m sure in almost 20 years of typing professionally I’ve done many! But I can’t think of anything.

I can sure think of funny things though said at work – I remember once at the law firm I worked at which happened to have the name McNamara in it, my friend and coworker said Macaroni instead of McNamara along with the rest of the firm’s title while answering the phone, and we all just busted up and couldn’t stop laughing.

There was another time I was collecting PI information from hospitals and doctors in order to assemble it to print out final settlement checks. I was printing out checks while I was on hold on the phone. I actually went to SLEEP (Chris didn’t sleep then either – he was 4) and was startled awake by the party coming on the line to see what I needed – luckily I had it written down in front of me!

Another time I fell asleep typing a tech document in the metallurgy department of a local metals engineering firm I worked at in the 80’s. I literally shifted sideways and almost fell off my chair.

As far as funny/humorous things I typed, I still can’t remember anything. But one interesting one is when I very first started typing care and protection hearings for Mass. in 2000, I typed Wooster for the city there pronounced that way. As several of you may know Ohio has a town called Wooster so I simply spelled it same way!!!

Little did I know it was spelled Worcester! I think my boss laughed about that for a while…”

 

children, life, NaBloPoMo

Halloween 07

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A darn good costume!

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We are okay – sorry it’s been so long since I posted! We all had the horrible fall cold, and I’ve been typing endlessly. We had a fun Halloween – see pics! Now the race begins – how fast will Christmas come THIS YEAR!!?? Probably the fastest ever since I’m not at all prepared.

time to also prepare for Thanksgiving and take some serious time to pray and give thanks….

organizing

The I have no excuse not to be posting excuse post

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  1. There ARE no excuses for my misbehavior. I’m not really posting a lot ANYWHERE but I do still read..
  2. LOOKING and ARRANGING for transcription jobs to line up through the week is kinda exhausting – more than I expected!  I contact about 4-5 companies a week that I’m contracted with to try and schedule something for each day – not always easy as THEY don’t always know what they have so I’m waiting on one all day to see if they have anything and if not I have to go to the next and see what they have, etc.  One day I’ll end up with 2-3 jobs at once and be totally screwed.
  3. I think I’m finally getting the horrid cold that i seemed to have escaped for almost a YEAR now (amazingly.)  A few weeks ago I had a stuffy nose, but now I’m like using dozens of tissues every five minutes.
  4. My house is a disaster, and I’m too tired to clean it.  I have a kitchen full of fruit flies.  I tend to get about 4 loads of dishes done a day but never finish them.
  5. I’m too busy to post because I need to change my poor hamster’s cage – too long since I changed it.  TOMORROW.  I MUST.  He’s a cute little guy – I’ll have to post his pic.
  6. I’m not posting as much because YAY I have made time for exercise!  Thought it would keep the colds and bugs away permanently, but no.  But I am walking half hour a day 4x a week roughly and am on week three.  I’m NOT dieting.  I just can’t handle another HAVE-TO item right now so am eating whatever I want ( ha ha ! )
  7. I also have taken 3 baths since the kids went back to school, and I shower right after the walk (and after the bath, when I take one – for some reason I just can’t take a bath ONLY, I have to have a shower afterwards ;P  )
  8. I’m also too busy to post because Rog and I have been working on some cleaning projects.  I cleaned out my office and threw out like 5 bags of recyclable papers (Colleen trotted them over to the school fundraising recycling bins across the street) and threw out all the garbage also.  I still have about 2′ high of filing to do in my filing cabinet that I can’t fit any more in and need to clean out.  ha ha!
  9. Rog cleaned out bedroom out halfway and did a really good job!  I’ll not have time to post because I need to get in there and move furniture around and clean out drawers and pack away summer clothes.  I can’t wait until it look REALLY good in there!!!  It’s been too long as a trash heap.
  10. Also won’t have time to post because FRIDAY we’ve scheduled the big garage clean out!  Tired of all our bikes, grill, shovels, etc., being outside because our garage is too big of a mess.  We’re actually using our pool water that we need to drain to put in buckets and use to wash the garage floor!!!

Bless you all – I’m still reading!

 

life, work

Akron Civic Theater memories

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We saw this theater walking today to get menus for Sunlark in Akron. Also took pictures of the Aeros stadium, etc. I should have gotten more pictures but forgot. We went today to work together for Sunlark but also to have a “date” to celebrate our 20-year anniversary (which was in June, but ahh well! ;D )

But boy, the memories here. I believe we saw Amy Grant/Michael W. Smith here in Concert in 1984. We also I believe saw Glass Harp there in about 1988 or so. What a beautiful theater.

We also saw the old Mr. Bilbo’s restaurant that we ate at in 84 and 93 (with our Mr. 2-year-old Christer when we toured Quaker Square and historic Akron – will have to post THOSE pics sometime!). It’s now known as the Lime Spider – here http://www.myspace.com/thelimespider It was closed or we would have looked inside. As dedicated Lord of the Rings fans we were very interested in that place….

We walked our legs off and got very good exercise and made some $ too…

It was nice to have a day out. We used a coupon we had and ate at Cracker Barrel with it – yummy free lunch! http://www.crackerbarrel.com/

Now, back to life, dirty dishes, laundry, and lining up transcription work for next week…

Kids are all back in school and doing okay. It’s nice to be back in a routine. though it gets a little tiring getting up at 5 every day!!! Next week will be the first week they all go to school every day so I plan to work 3 days. Only had gotten in 1-2 days per week the last few weeks.