An MT at heart

Speaking with my mother about getting a online typing job, I decided upon becoming a medical transcriptionist. The idea had crossed my mind before, but hearing her speak of all the benefits of the job and the tremendous help you are capable of doing for others really impacted my thoughts on it. I began researching different reports on the internet to better my understanding of the job. Though, strenuous it may be when doing for a long period of time, it is definitely a great public service and really helps the doctors catch a little bit of a break between all the activities they are involved in during their packed work weeks! Becoming a part of the medical field has always been my main dream. My mother, who inspired me to, not only reach for, but to achieve my goals, had a tough life. Without a stable environment to grow up in, she married at a young age and did not complete college and never got a degree in any type of specific field. I have witnessed her struggles through raising my two brothers and myself and going through an ugly (to put it into light terms) divorce. She had to take the rough route and get minimum paying jobs to support our broken family. SN:0MA9N2ESY

My father changed his course in life at the time of their divorce and started a ‘new’ family-leaving my mother and us children to survive on our own. With me being 13-years-old and my brother being just 14, we could not go to work yet to help her pay the bills. We lost our house, our family, our hometown, and all the friends we made through our lives in the town we grew up in while my parents were still together. Seeing is believing. I am a strong believer in working for a living and not having to struggle to just ‘get by’. As I sit here writing this, my mother is still in a bad position in life with my younger brother, now from a new marriage, and her husband who is out of a job. When my parents divorced, my mother, my brother and I had moved to Biloxi, Mississippi to live with relatives until we were able to get an apartment. I am sure you all have heard of the impact Hurricane Katrina had on the lives of those affected. We were there. We lost everything we had ever owned on top of everything else that we had already lost in our lives. This just goes to show that you never know when you are going to have to just pick up and start over. Whether it is family or nature, there is always a way to get off track. With a jobs typing work home, I believe I would be able to always have a plan. The job outline allows for working from home and still making a good living. The comfort of having a steady job that you can always count on would be awesome.