hi, i am a 23yr old female with cf. i am currently looking for a job that i can train for and do at home. i have tried to go to college multiple times but i always end up sick and have to withdrawal bc i miss too much class. i really need to find something to pay the bills, but it has to be something i can train and do from home. does anyone have any ideas or any help/advice to offer? i am getting desperate. thank you to anyone who has any input on the subject. i appreciate it all. thanks! : )
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work from home?
- Thread starter CEliz28
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How about a medical transcriptionist. You would have to take a class for the medical terms, etc. but you could do that at night school, which is mostly adults. So hopefully the germs/illness would be less, considering that you wouldn't be around massive amounts of partying college kids.
Once you get through your class, then you would work from home and listen to audio tapes of what doctors want documented into a chart, you would transcribe that and save it to disc, then send the disc back. Knowing how to type would be key.
So that may be an idea for you, I know they make a lot of money doing this. And many schools will help you with financial stuff and tuition, etc.
Good luck to you!
-Kelli
ps. Good idea of keeping away from little kids. Germs galore!
Once you get through your class, then you would work from home and listen to audio tapes of what doctors want documented into a chart, you would transcribe that and save it to disc, then send the disc back. Knowing how to type would be key.
So that may be an idea for you, I know they make a lot of money doing this. And many schools will help you with financial stuff and tuition, etc.
Good luck to you!
-Kelli
ps. Good idea of keeping away from little kids. Germs galore!
A medical transcriptionist is a good idea. My husband's mom does that, and she makes excellent money. Just be careful though, take good care of your wrists and arms. She has those support things that go by her mouse and keyboard to keep her from getting carpel tunnels or however it is spelled.
One thing you could do, and obviously this is more long term instead of short term, is teach online courses. That's what I did for a long time - you'de have to get your degree, and certificates, but you could take classes from home and then teach from home. Or you can eventually become an adjunct (part-time) instructor, where you'de only work a few hours a week.
One thing you could do, and obviously this is more long term instead of short term, is teach online courses. That's what I did for a long time - you'de have to get your degree, and certificates, but you could take classes from home and then teach from home. Or you can eventually become an adjunct (part-time) instructor, where you'de only work a few hours a week.
HollyCatheryn
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Oh gosh! What CAN'T you do from home? At first, I had the same problem and felt really limited. But, now I have realized that the sky is the limit. I can do anything I want to do and I have the freedom to set my own schedule, don't have to worry about annoying bosses or coworkers or missing days. You can tutor almost anything. If you know how to write, research, sew, cook, paint, cut hair, balance bank accounts...you can charge money to teach other people to do it AND you can get paid to do it. Tutoring, you might be around kids, but it isn't the same thing to have a few people into your space every day, than to be in a public place around dozens of people. In your space you can wipe down surfaces, wash your hands, control who comes in, and you can ask them to wash their hands also!Anything that you normally do, there are people who are willing to pay someone to do it for them (house-cleaning, shopping, dog walking, organizing). Cases in point: For one family (wonderful, sweet, packrats!) they pay me $10 an hour to clean out junk drawers, messy closets and bins that they fill up during the week. In case I ever run out of organizing work, I also do the laundry and iron their work clothes. For another lady, I'm on retainer. She pays me a set fee and she gives me a list of what she needs done. Sometimes, it's grocery shopping (which is a good one, since most of us go grocery shopping anyway - you can just combine trips) or running errands and other times it is cleaning her apartment.If you like to work outside, you can garden for other people. Laundry is nice because you can run a load while you take a nap and iron while you do a treatment. If you like to drive around, you can run errands (pick up/drop off type things) and chauffeur. I paid for my violin lessons in high school by picking up my teacher's kids from school and ferrying them to and from activities and running other errands for her as needed. Don't focus on what you can't do. Think of all the things you know how to do - nit-picky things, even - and write them down. Think of which ones you like the best and start trying to build a business. If you like to draw, buy white coffee mugs in bulk and a set of craft paint-pens and start designing. You can take orders and/or have some stand-bys in stock. Great things for office parties (cheap, but look personal) and birthday presents. You can offer the option of filling them with pens or candies. People like being able to customize things.What about doing a business like Mary Kay or Pampered Chef or something where the product is already produced, you just market/sell it. Or one of the ones where you just package things (like they send you all the pieces of a pamphlet and you assemble it). If you have ever played an instrument, start taking some private lessons from someone who can be not only a teacher, but a mentor (so that they teach you how to teach) and hang out a shingle or connect with a conservatory, montessory school or school of the arts. In the mean-time, focus on building up your immune system. There are a few things that have helped me strengthen my immune system so that I am better able to be around children (I teach music lessons, individual and group).
Have you looked into mystery shopping? It's definitely not a huge money maker, but it can bring in quite a bit of extra funds. I quit my job about a year ago to stay at home with my daughter, and I started doing it at the end of this January. I don't do too many shops because we aren't in a very populated area, but in the one and a half months that I've been doing it, I've made $485 plus some reimbursements for things like food and clothes. It's hardly a full salary, but it's very nice because you can take the jobs you want, work the days that you're feeling up to it, and it's not a long-term commitment. If you're interested, let me know and I can send you some links to companies that I've done jobs for.
I hope something works out for you!
-- Jen
I hope something works out for you!
-- Jen