I can’t remember exactly when I developed my typing skills, but I do know how it got started. I was playing an “arcade-y” typing game where you were a wizard at the center of the screen and the “word monsters” slowly crawled up to your from the four corners of the screen. I was still a young kid so the bright colors of the EGA screen along with the blips and blurps of the game had me gleefully entertained. Then my dad got home from work and I showed off my typing speed results (which I can’t remember). He watches me play the game for several times and he says “That’s not how you do it”. He takes my place and mentions the touch system, explaining where my fingers should be on the keyboard and what mesmerized me the most was when he said “You should be able to type without looking at the keyboard”. Whaaaat? Is that even possible?
After a few weeks of practicing, it turns out it was! And ever since, I’ve been working on my typing speed. I’ve been a data encoder several times in my life, which were actually my first series of professional jobs. At one job, they had to fire me unceremoniously because I breezed through all the typing tasks they gave me until they couldn’t find anything more for me that I could do given my skill set. I remember I even had the chance to work as an encoder of legal documents for the office of the late Miriam Defensor Santiago. I botched it, though.
After getting my foot in the door of the call center industry, and several years afterwards, I find myself here now; trying to work from home, wondering what other jobs I can do. I was having a hard time finding a job as a virtual assistant and so I skimmed through the Internet for ideas. Then I chanced upon a particular site that enumerated several options to earn from home that didn’t have anything to do with internet marketing and social media (I hated people who spammed advert posts so I hated the idea of me doing anything resembling it).
One of the options presented was to be a transcriptionist for Quicktate. It suddenly clicked; I had great typing speed and accuracy and I had a good enough ear and a deep enough comprehension for the English language that I didn’t need subtitles when watching an English movie or TV show(which doesn’t mean I don’t use subtitles. It’s still easier!). It was perfect!
After going through the motions as instructed by the Quicktate website, I found myself facing a pay wall: they were asking for $15 to do a background check on me. This was totally new to me. I have never had to pay for anyone to do a background check on me. It seemed like a double-whammy. But then the promised benefit of forever being able to work as much or as little as I want any time of day appealed enough to me that I took the plunge and sunk in what little I had left of my savings for the background check.
After 2 days, I woke up to great news! Quicktate emailed and accepted my application; I was now a transcriptionist! Excitedly I logged in and waited for work to come streaming in. 3 minutes, 4 minutes, nothing. On the fifth minute a recording came in. Gibberish, no intelligible audio. I skipped. Waited. Another recording came, 2 seconds, no audio. Moving on. Few minutes, something came on; all I could hear was the TV in the background talking about someone getting killed. Skip. You get the picture.
As a self-proclaimed analyst, it would be inappropriate to judge them because I do not as of yet have sufficient data to form a statistical analysis and make a conclusion if trying to work for Quicktate full-time was a viable option or not. I’ve been sick for 3 days and was unable to work straight hours. Despite my paying $15 to get this job and a long way before I earn it back, I still feel good about my decision overall. Quicktate will always be there with some work whenever I need it or feel like it. It may not be much. It might not amount to much. But it’s way better than nothing!
For anyone who wants to give it a try, they do not require any previous experience. This is my first time as well. Be prepared for that $15 pay wall though. If you liked my post, click the link below to be redirected to the Quicktate website to get further info you may want to know more about. Please note that you’ll be going through Adfly. Just click on the Skip Ad button at the top right corner of your browser once it appears. Cheers!
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