Translation and Transcription Jobs

Translation and transcription as a career, at least for a freelancer on the internet, is not something you want to do unless you have the right tools. What this article intends to do is tell you what you tools you need, what you need to learn and where to find translation and transcription jobs after you acquire the required skills.

first up, you probably wandered in here looking for a transcription or translation job. If so, here's the transcription jobs and here's the translation jobs.

However, if you're just starting out, you should probably read on first.

Medical Transcription Jobs

Now this is a totally different issue and I would not advise you to apply unless you have a medical background - And that doesn't mean you qualify if you managed to coax out a couple of your dentist's front teeth while he was trying to pull out yours.


This is serious stuff and you have the lives of patients in your hands. If you still think you're up to it, please follow the links below:

jobs.biohealthmatics.com
www.mtjobs.com

There's a big list of companies like the two above. You can find them here.

Ok. In case you're still reading, and you think this scene ain't bad - Got a lotta jobs and pay's good. Hmmm...Only problem is, you don't know squat about medical transcription. So?

Click here. It would be impossible for me to compete with that FAQ. Read it. Follow it. Don't start spending any money just yet. Just read and learn. Then come back here and read the rest of this post.

Ok. Now that you're back ( you didn't really read it, did you? I know - It's too big. ). Here's how you can get a hands-on feel of the work involved, without spending a dime. And if you're good at it, you might even end up with a nice medical transcription gig.

Tigerfish Medical Transcription

Note: I have come up with these links after spending a lot of painful hours searching and contacting dozens of companies and rejecting every company which asked for money. In spite of this, if you are dense enough to end up paying someone to get a medical transcription job, then you really deserve to be parted of your money.

Customer Service Reps Wanted

Bloggers!!!! - Wanna blog without pay? - Click Here
Comment: My Bad! I forgot. That's like asking an 'on duty' whore to go out for a date. My apologies.


The blog linked to above ( bgalrstate.blogspot.com ) deserves a linkback cause she's a tree-hugging gun-hating liberal.

Help Desk Technician ( Work From Home ) - Click Here
Comment: This is the site: www.rewebcentral.com and seems like a genuine job, even though the site does not have a career section. Well, never hurts to fire away a resume, huh?

Article Writers Wanted - Click Here
Comment: Got this also on Craigslist, but I thought it better not to link to the Craigslist posting, but rather directly to the site. Why? Because they're making you jump through hoops( you'll understand if you try fill in the form). Dunno why, but it rings some alarm bells. A company which wanted to pay to write articles would just tell you to send over an email with your resume/details. Anyway, I could be wrong, and this could be a great job, in which case I'm gonna miss out, cause I left the form halfway through.

Attorneys wanted for telecommuting writing job - Click Here
Comment: They want "two sets" of attorneys. Maybe they should shop around to see if they buy one set, maybe they can get the other set free. I'm pretty sure if they were looking for bloggers instead of attorneys, they would a got a pair free....

Recruiting Researcher - Click Here
Comment: Get this gig and you probably won't have the time to go looking for another one for a long time.

Internet Teachers - Click Here
Comment: Uh...They need us to teach people how to use Google and Yahoo and web browsers - Via the internet..I'm still scratching my head.....I mean, how do you teach someone to use the internet when you're communicating via the internet????
There's 3 possibilities here:
1. Either I'm dumb and missing something.
2. The employer is dumb and hasn't thought about this.
3. The people who are the employers clients are too dumb to have thought about this.

Take your pick, though I'm leaning towards No.1

Enjoy.

Staring Into The Abyss

A small confession before I start - The reason I'm writing this article is not because I did some deep introspection - It's because I didn't have any material for this post.


Since I'm hotlinking their image, you might consider visiting http://www.literaryagent.co.uk/

Anyway, I was looking for articles by other writers and just happened to bump into this page:

Writers On Writing

There are two very important things about this page:
A:- It has a priceless collection of articles from writers about how they ended up as writers.
B:- It's free and from the NYTimes. How often does that happen?

While each of you ( I'm taking it for granted here that you are some kind of a writer ), will draw his own conclusions from the bunch of articles inside, a couple of them really hit close to home for me. So, I decided to rehash some old history.

I can't hold a regular morning-to-evening job. I tried, for all of three days, before I decided that I really wasn't made for this. I have this deep restlessness inside, and it rears it's ugly head whenever I get somewhat comfortable in any situation. So I decided to earn enough money to be able to retire and then do whatever my heart desired. Needless to say, it didn't quite work out that way. Which is when I decided to take a step back and take some time off. I spent a few months basically lazing and moping around, during which time it occured to me that I might try to do some writing. Well, to make a long story short, I'm no good at it. But I found one thing - You don't have to be Charles Dickens to sell an article on the web. And that's what I'm doing currently.

Well, that solves a couple of problems:
1. I didn't know what to write about today.
2. After reading those articles in the NYT, I have come to the conclusion that all writers are, in some way or the other, abysmal failures in the normal pursuits of life. So, let's pack up all that guilt and stow it away, to be opened for introspection some other time. For now, I'm a writer.

Today's jobs:

Freelance Writer For Oil Company - Click here.

Web content writer - Click here.

Tech Blog needs a part-time writer - Click here.

Call for a group of writers - Click here.

Comment: You know the first thing that comes to mind when you read the ad? This is gonna be one heck of a swinger party.....

SEO Copywriting

Spotlight on Copy Writers. A few facts about copywriting before we go on to today's writing gigs:

"Copywriters are similar to technical writers, and the careers may overlap. Broadly speaking, however, technical writing is dedicated to informing readers rather than persuading them. A copywriter would write an ad designed to sell you a car, while a technical writer would write the operator's manual designed to tell you how to use it."
- Wikipedia

To confuse you some more, I'll sprinkle in copywriting for the web. What this means is that:
1. You need to write an ad targeting human visitors, extolling the virtues of the product or service.
2. You need to keep in mind that your text is meant to be keyword rich and make the page / ad rank higher in the search engines.

This is what we would call SEO copywriting. And this is the kind of job you can find easily. Why? Because you're providing a service which sells a product to both humans and search engine bots. Advertisers and/or publishers should be swamping you with offers, if you can hire yourself to write some good SEO Copywriting for yourself....Ok, this is getting wierd. Let's get down to the jobs before I mess up this post:

Search jobs for SEO copywriters at Indeed.com

what	where
job title, keywords or company	city, state or zip

Copy writers wanted on Craigslist - Every day there are new copywriting gigs posted on craigslist. This is a google search of craigslist.org specifically for finding copywriting jobs.

Jobster - Jobster.com is a job search engine which lists a large number of online and offline jobs for copywriters.

Looking for copywriting jobs? Do a search on Yahoo! HotJobs.

Timeout

Warning: This post has absolutely nothing to do with telecommute jobs, writers or in general any form, size or shape of visitor that I crave for and my sponsors crave for. So if you came here looking for some kind of job or something, feel free to wander about, search or rip apart any of the other posts on this site.

Take a good look:



You know what this picture says? It says - "TIMEOUT"
You know what the Iraq war needs? "TIMEOUT"
You know what you do when you get into a fight with someone you love? "TIMEOUT"

My point is it's all about love. You can fight and kill and hate and plunder, but ultimately the sun will dawn. The ashes of war will bring about a strong foundation for love and peace and unity. You can say that's naive. But it also happens to be true. You can't put out the fires raging in Iraq without hosing them over with love and friendship and peace and prosperity. So take all those military strategies and flush them down the loo. When you're done doing that, try uncorking some love, same as you see in the picture. Maybe, just maybe, you could win...

Wanted - Web Content Writers - Dead or Alive

In years gone by, before there was corporate hegemony and while there was still value for an individual's sweat, there used to periodic gold rushes. Meaning that someone, a lone prospector, would strike gold and become stinking rich. His story would spread far and wide and people from all over would turn up in and around the area to try and get a share of the pie. Merchants would set up shops and motels and whore houses just to provide service to these prospectors. In short order, there would be a bustling town living off the money which these prospecters brought in. This is what was known as a gold rush.

My point with all this blather is that we're going through a similar period on the internet. People are staking claims to ideas, domain names and topics by any means. Locking up all these and getting search engine traffic, the online equivalent of gold, is the key to open the door to a flood of internet gold. But search engine traffic needs content, a lot of content.

Which is where we writers come in - And we're wanted today in all shapes and sizes.. So long as you can deliver results, i.e. web content - Nothing else counts. You don't have to prove that you have a Ph.D in the required topic to write an article on it. You don't need to go to the local library to borrow a find a book and sit up all night poring over some mundane theory written a long time ago by some dead guy about which you have no freaking clue. It's fast, it's easy, it's hot and in demand and does not need you to go to college or a university and spend a couple of years of your life. So what's the catch? Plagiarism.

When you have people writing articles about topics which they are totally unfamiliar with, there's a big chance that these amateur writers will take shortcuts and quote without attribution. Now, it's almost impossible in today's internet to catch a digital copyright violation, unless you spend a lot of money to safeguard and keep track of your content via search engines. So what happens is that most of the time, this plagiarism goes unnoticed. Here's my advice to all web content writers - Before you start writing an article, spend at least one full day researching a topic if you don't know much about it. Once you understand a topic properly - The concepts, the industry terms, the people, the rules and laws and history of the sector - Then you start writing about it. After you finish writing, check your article from top to bottom and delete/rewrite any sentence or paragraph which you feel should not be there.

Now, an established writer, who's basically an expert in his field of expertise may have a sarcastic smirk if he reads this article for wannabe web content writers. But lemme tell you pal - Your days are numbered. Today's the time of the amateur writer - Who's an expert on any topic his employer wants him to write about. And it can and is being done. Just do it properly, ethically and without causing harm to yourself, your employer and your employer's clients.

You want proof? Here you are - Today's Telecommute jobs ( Mostly writing gigs ):

Web content writer wanted - Click here.

Website writers wanted - Click here.

Good web content writer needed - Click here.

Web content firm looking for writers - Click here.

Gaming blog looking for writers - Click here.

Television obsessed bloggers - Click here.

Transcription gig - Click here.

Technical Writer - Click here.

Sports website copy editor - Click here.

Freelance writers wanted - Click here.

Have I made my point? If you're still not convinced, come back tomorrow and I'll have more web content writing jobs for you...

Keyboard Error - Press F1 To continue

PayPerPost.com replied back to me saying that they're rejecting me because "My Blog Is Too Young". WTF???? I'm good enough for Google and Yahoo. I'm good enough for Performancing. I'm good enough for CommissionJunction. I'm good enough for sites which are "Not So Young" in my line of work - Telecommuting. I'm good enough for Technocrati and a multitude of Blog directories, sponsors and other people who find this blog interesting, are linking back to it. But I'm "too young" for PayperPost.com

Maybe this is just a case of sour grapes, but I am really pissed. Financially speaking, it's peanuts. But rejection always hurts, specially when you think it's not deserved. I fired an email back to them asking that my account be terminated immediately. But in typical blockhead mentality, there's no frigging reply to that....Go figure. Which is why I feel like I do when I see a message from his Holiness Bill Friggin Gates : Keyboard Error - Press F1 To Continue.

This is not to say that I'm stupid and don't understand their reasoning. They figure it's a new blog and won't be giving their advertisers the value for money promised. Well, they're wrong. Cause after a few months, they're gonna regret nixing this blog. Ok. Rant over.

Today's Telecommute Jobs:

Part time Blogger Wanted - Click here
Medical Summary Transcription - Click here
Audio Transcription Gig - Click here
Article writer wanted - Click here

Final edit/editor( ?? Uh...) - Click here
Comment: This one is a bit strange, but it's God's work. If you get the gig, and if you're able to understand what he wants, and if you understand what he's done so far, maybe you can get the job done. Miracles do happen. But then, maybe not...

Freelance writers wanted - Click here
Young female blogger wanted - Click here

Enjoy.

A penny for your prose

Bumped into an article on paid vs. free writing. I've seen a lot of blogs and a lot of sites, and on average I spend more than 10 hours a day reading crap on the internet. But this one article is not crap. I suggest you read the whole article.

A penny for your prose By Madonna Dries Christensen

Published by John Hewitt ( www.poewar.com )

Update: 'Strategery for staying The course' is a post related to this one.