Where has everyone gone?
LOL!!
Huggles-Beauty
Beauty, I am here. Nothing much new to report. I slept till 2:30 this
afternoon, just so Tiiiiiiiired!
How are you feeling? The change of weather really whips me.
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From: “BeautyCochran” cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com
To: phamann@tampabay.rr.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 2:32 PM
Subject: [cfs] YoooooooooooHooooooooooo??
I am dying out here.
One of my clients, each time I send her 300 pages back, she sends me a new
job of another 300 pages. I need the money, so I take it, but it’s starting
to run me down.
www.IntlProofingConsortium.com (http://www.IntlProofingConsortium.com)
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What kind of proofing do you do? I am interested in working from home but
difficult to find jobs. Anyone have any references or ideas about working
from home ? Would appreciate it! Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: “CFSfacts” cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com
To: phamann@tampabay.rr.com
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [cfs] YoooooooooooHooooooooooo??
In a message dated 11/3/2007 6:35:05 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com writes:
What kind of proofing do you do? I am interested in working from home but
difficult to find jobs. Anyone have any references or ideas about working
from home ?
Having been a paralegal, primarily I proofread legal stuff.
When I first became disabled, I tried to find legitimate work-at-home, but
everyone required me to work in their office for 6-24 months first so they
would know how much I could do in an 8 hour day, i.e., was I goofing off
substantially once they were no longer watching me.
Someone I knew had a SIL who was processing insurance claims from home, so I
asked her to ask SIL to ask her employer if they’d hire me. Word came back
that SIL was a valued long-time employee who got this as a special
accommodation when she had health problems and that the company absolutely was not
interested in any sort of work-at-home program.
Then I started seeing “work at home” ads in the newspaper. What they meant
was “you won’t have a cubicle in our office” – I’d spend 90% of my time out
and about at meetings and do my paperwork at home. Again, not quite what I
was looking for.
So, I started my own business.
Go to the library – there are plenty of books about home-based businesses.
Pick the one that fits your skills/energy level best. (Obviously, you’re
not going to be a personal shopper if you’re homebound.)
Karen M. Campbell
Sacramento, Calif.
Writer - Editor/Proofreader - Paralegal
Desktop Publisher - Researcher - Translator (German/French)
specialties: law, politics, women’s issues, sports, health, cats, needlework
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Oh, yeah, and there are websites and e-groups devoted to working at home –
search for WAHM.
I think one is WAHM.com.
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Here’s another job possibility for those who are up to a little work at home:
In a message dated 10/29/2007 6:14:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
racingmom55@yahoo.com writes:
I attend Stark State College of Technology in North Canton, OH. This fall,
they started the scoping program that can be taken completely online
Scoping is the step between the court reporter taking down the testimony and
me proofreading it. Basically, you would check words the computer didn’t
translate, add punctuation, select the appropriate one from to/too/two, insert
formatting.
I’m hearing numbers like $15-$20/hour from experienced scopists. Which is
not bad for working in your jammies. Double that if you’ve got a rush.
See if you can get State Voc Rehab to pay for the training/software, and
maybe they’d even pay for a new computer and the high-speed connection necessary
to download the audio files.
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Dear Karen, thank you for your informative email. I would love to work, I
miss it terribly, but as you said, it just is not an option to work out of
the home. I have two college degrees and have worked as a medical biller for
3 years. I see ads for such jobs, but how do you know if they are legit? I
will take your advice and get a book, it sounds like a great start to get
ideas! Sincerely, Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: “CFSfacts” cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com
To: phamann@tampabay.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [cfs] YoooooooooooHooooooooooo??
In a message dated 11/4/2007 10:46:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com writes:
I have two college degrees and have worked as a medical biller for
3 years. I see ads for such jobs, but how do you know if they are legit?
They may or may not be legit. If they ask you for money upfront, they
aren’t.
But you can certainly market yourself as a medical biller directly to the
doctors’ offices.
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Dear Racingmom, thanks for the info on scoping. I have never heard of it
before, but it does sound very interesting and something some of us could
handle. How long, intensive is the training? Thanks, Sara
----- Original Message -----
From: “CFSfacts” cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com
To: phamann@tampabay.rr.com
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [cfs] YoooooooooooHooooooooooo??
In a message dated 11/6/2007 7:24:01 AM Pacific Standard Time,
cfs-cpt6603@lists.careplace.com writes:
Dear Racingmom, thanks for the info on scoping. I have never heard of it
before, but it does sound very interesting and something some of us could
handle. How long, intensive is the training? Thanks, Sara
I don’t know about the program she’s talking about – you’d have to e-mail
the school to find out – but there are a couple of other online programs that
take 3-6 months (since you do have to learn to read stenotype). If you
already read steno, the actual formatting training probably only takes one day.
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