Highest Paying Work-at-Home Jobs that Don't Require a Degree

How in a Term or Two, You Can Be One Your Way to a Great, Work-at-home Career

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So you found out you are having a baby or maybe relocating to a new area and wish to explore the world of work-at-home careers? With a few months preparation, you too can be on your way to a high paying home-based career. Some of the best paying opportunities can have training that is completed in a few months, and you can be on your way to making an excellent salary, while enjoying flexible work hours and working from the comfort of your home. Some great ideas for short-term, profitable careers are as follows:

Translation - for those that took a language in high school or college, translation careers are one of the best paying careers offered to home workers. While your language skills may need refreshed, there are many colleges who offer language classes and will let you audit a class for a reduced fee. In addition, many offer continuing education classes where you can brush-up on your language skills online. MIT Open Courseware offers free lessons that were developed by MIT instructors in all academic disciplines. Textbooks used in the actual class are listed, so you can purchase one and follow along with each lesson.

Medical/Legal Transcription - this field is open for individuals who can type fast and lean terminology and formatting, in classes and programs that usually last two terms. While there are many online schools that offer medical terminology, a community college generally costs less, and instructors are in the classroom to provide immediate feedback. The same can be said with legal transcription. Stenographers and scopists are two high paying careers that can be completed in about six months. While these jobs can be performed at home, it is important to note that employees usually have to provide their own equipment, which in addition to a computer and internet can cost a few hundred dollars.

 
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  • Translation, transcription, and editing are some of the top paying work-at-home careers.
  • Most training for these jobs can be completed in two terms or less.
  • Some training can be found on the internet for free or very little out of pocket expense.
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I have been an acute care medical transcriptionist for 30 years, working at home for about 6 or 7 years now, and just because the ads on TV say that you can make $40,000 a year working from home that is not necessarily true. What they do not tell you is that the majority of the transcription companies pay by the amount of work you are able to produce, usually by a 65-character line, not by the hour, and that the majority of the larger hospitals that turn to transcription services for help with overflow work or outsource all of their work, have huge numbers of foreign doctors with very, very bad accents. They also don't tell you that doctors in general would rather take a beating than dictate charts. So, the majority of the doctors are going to talk as fast as they can, and eat, burp, cough, and make any number of ungodly noises you can think of, talk to other people, along with mumbling and now that they have cell phones they are dictating while driving down the interstate in their

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Posted on 03/29/2008 at 6:03:05 AM

 
Definitely good ideas for people that want to work at home.

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Posted on 06/12/2007 at 8:06:00 AM

 
Good job. I think you covered the better paying jobs working at home.

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Posted on 05/13/2007 at 11:05:00 AM

 
I can vouch for some of these. I see listings for translators all of the time for $10+ an hour. Boy, I wish I had learned a language.

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Posted on 05/02/2007 at 10:05:00 PM

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