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	[quote name="Choson"]There was <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/116683/how-can-i-get-paid-to-type">this awesomely horrible AskMefi thread</a> I read a while back that I went back to and it reminded me of the Caltrops typing contest, with a side-order of medical transcription commentary! [quote name="young douchebag"] i believe myself to be quite gifted when it comes to typing. can this be parlayed into an income somehow? [/quote] [quote name="My moom can take your Creexul anytime"] Medical transcription? Well, I guess. If you're living in India and know someone who can get you in to one of the companies that does it. Otherwise you're competing for an extremely limited pool of jobs domestically, and your competition not only has good typing speeds but upwards of decades of familiarity with medical terminology, records handling, and processes. When the hospitals laid off all their transcription staff to outsource the work overseas, the number of jobs available per qualified applicant plummeted. My mother is a transcriptionist with decades of experience and knowledge of medical terminology and procedures that enables her to more easily comprehend, spell, and transcribe the increasingly poor quality of dictation. She has an actual education. She's been clocked over 200WPM at WAY more than double your age, and is so bad-ass at the job she's been ask to cover for an <i>entire shift</i> of transcriptionists. Guess what? After she and her entire department of records transcriptionists were laid off and outsourced, the only jobs out there are either the work-at-home scams that pay less than she made in 1970 doing the job or in India. [/quote] "Bad-ass"[/quote]