Typing from home?

[charl2503]

I have recently been made redundant (working in a call centre), and am now at a bit of a loose end. The call centre is the only job I've ever had (I'm 21), and to be honest, I HATED it.

Ideally, I would like to work from home. I was googling some ideas yesterday and came across the idea of typing from home.

Would I be able to do this with no PA / secretarial experience? I am very good with computers and I am a quick typist.

How would I go about doing this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Anna

I have been doing this three years now. I am a former legal and medical secretary and I started off subbing work off other online transcription agencies. They send work according to your background so obviously I got sent legal and medical work. I then started doing interviews and focus groups which I found paid better. Now I have my own agency (started about 18 months ago) and have got quite a few regular clients from this. I have four girls who regularly do typing for me. It definitely pays to run your own agency rather than subcontract work off other agencies as the pay is more than double usually.

I'm not sure what type of typing work you would be suitable for since you worked in a call centre - it is quite specialised. Agencies usually narrow people down to four categories: legal, medical, interview/focus groups and building survey work. You need to have excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation and be able to work your way around Word and Excel at a higher level than the basics.

Hope this helps!
Cat

Finding genuine data entry jobs online may be a challenge, but you can give it a shot. Why don?t you put your typing skills to better use and try out stuff like medical transcription? You may need to get trained in medical lingo, editing and proof reading, etc., but that won?t be too hard to do. You can learn medical transcription at Career Step in a matter of months.

do you have DCs as I think working from home if you don't need to - eg for childcare isn't great - not well paid and can be lonely
could you also look at getting more training/qualifications