I just saw an ad in a baby magazine looking for people who are good typers to do medical record transcription.  But then if you examine the language it says something about how they can "teach you" how to do the transcriptions, so they're probably trying to sell you something.  I'm a pretty fast typer and I enjoy it, and I'd love to make some $$$ typing stuff up, but I don't want to do anything that's a scam.  Anyone know of any websites/companies that can get me started with this where it's not a scam where you need to pay a bunch of $$$ to get started?

I'd like to know too.  The one thing I'm pretty sure of is if they want any $ from you, it's probably not legit!

I am sure that medical transcription is not something that you can just pick up and do. You need some instruction before hand! If you are going to do it find a place in your area that does the training and hiring out so that you have a good chance of employment!!

 work at home that is not a scam?....does such an animal exist?????????

I agree with Julie. I have looked for quite a few and have found them all to be scams.  In fact, if I had taken the money I have spent trying to work at home and just saved it, I would have had enough money NOT to work for a year...yeah I can be dense sometimes!

My friend worked for years as a medical transcriptionist in an office; there were about a dozen transcriptionists working for a large, busy group of doctors.  One day they were told they would henceforth be using software to automatically transcribe everything, and their jobs no longer existed.  So, I would want to make sure there was really work in this field before I pursued it.

I really hope you find something that works out, please keep us posted! 

 Yeah, I figured anything "too good to be true" probably is.  Too bad I mentioned this ad to DH.  We just had a huge fight over it.  We've been trying to buy a house bc it's a "buyer's market," but after a month and a half of looking (with my Dad, who just became a realtor last year, so you know he's not trying to screw us or anything), all we've seen in our price range is crap that usually has at least one fatal flaw if not two or three, and it's so depressing.  If we only could go up like $25,000 there'd be much better stuff available to us, but we just can't.  We just had our second offer rejected in as many weeks for being too low  .  Those were the only two halfway decent houses even near our price that we could find, and both of the offers we gave were tens of thousands of dollars lower than asking price.  

Anyway, my dad and DH had to go pick up the car from the shop earlier, and afterwards came back and assaulted me with this "genius" plan that I'd send out letters to doctors and lawyers in the area to see if they could use inexperienced never-had-an-office-job me to transcribe stuff (in all the spare time I have with two highly demanding younguns at home), and that way I'd make like one or two thousand bucks extra a month, and that would solve all our problems!  Oh yeah, and they figured I could do all this letter-writing this weekend and get a job and start making that money in the next week or so, you know, before we get a house.  Oh, what a magical fairytale world we live in, right?  It's not like people with experience are struggling to get jobs.  Yeah, they sure are dying to throw work at people like me who can barely spare fifteen minutes to email an RSVP to a party and who have no experience whatsoever.  Okay.

Thanks, ladies, for clearing this up for me, as this is the first time I've ever even considered working from home and I knew nothing about what the deal was. 

I know how you feel about the house situation. We are looking to buy too and it's kinda frustrating because with only my DH working right now we are limited. But i just heard on the news the other day in california the median home price dropped to $335K which is sooo cheap compared to last year. However the city I live in for that price the neighborhood is "ok"... not ghetto but not the greatest either. 280K-300K would be great for 4 bd. (over here anyway) Keep your hopes up I have faith that homes will be dropping more so in the next few months as predicted and we will have our house Our realtor told us that homes usually drop in price after school starts because most people want to move and get thier kids enrolled at the beginning of the school year.