Earn Money Online: Writing, Transcribing and Tutoring Gigs by Alexander Cordova

Author:Alexander Cordova
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reference
Published: 2014-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

2.7 Alternative Routes

If you're looking to do writing work independently instead of affiliating yourself to a writing platform, there are a lot of routes you can take in order to get your online writing career started. MakeUseOf has already published guides on the two big, do-it-yourself methods, so we'll defer to these existing guides here:

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3. Transcription

Transcription is a job that people seldom imagine themselves doing, but curiously enough, it's one of the most stable sources of online jobs available at any given time.

The process is simple: you listen to an audio file, transcribe its contents according to the guidelines specified, turn in the finished product, and get paid.

It of course, is very seldom as easy as that. Considering the incredibly wide range of topics that your assignments may cover, you may find yourself constantly at a loss when dealing with lingo from specific areas of work, or simply frustrated due to segments of a file where the speakers talk over each other and you can't make out a single word they say.

Transcription isn't for everyone, and most online platforms have incredibly high burnout rates. But if you find that you don't mind the work, and posses a decent set of headphones, it might just be the ticket for you. Further on ahead, you might even want to invest in a pedal – with this you can bump your speed up even higher, as you won't have to take your hands off the keyboard in order to speed up, down, or replay parts of an audio file.

Starting rates for transcription work may go as high as $0.6-0.7 per minute of audio, which is indeed decent pay, but if you're a rookie it will almost certainly take you a long time to get through even short audio files. So your actual amount of earnings won't be high until you get some experience and speed under your belt.

Once you've been doing transcription for a while, you might even get the chance to do some media work, which pays considerably better, or you may make it to your client’s shortlist for rush jobs.

When looking for transcription jobs, you'll notice they're divided mostly into four categories:

Medical: this involves transcribing the notes of medical professionals and is considered a technical trade, so any serious workplace will require you undergo training before accepting you into their team. This training is often quite expensive.

Legal: slightly more relaxed than medical transcription, but still requires some qualifications, mostly in the form of previous experience in some area related to the law.

General: the catch-all category, which groups all the odd-jobs such as business meetings, phone calls, etc. this is likely going to be your meat and bones unless you're willing to undergo the qualifications to obtain either medical or legal transcription work.

Media: mostly work relating to TV, such as documentaries or reality television. They offer the best pay since they're usually incredibly deadline-sensitive. As such, it's a hard niche to break into.

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