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Posted: Jan 10, 2013

It seems as though there are a lot of students seeking help on the word board, more so recently than before.  Are people still going to school trying to becoming transcriptionists in this day of looming career doom of Obamacare?

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Amazing, isn't it? There has to be a lot of hopeful - thinking involved in this, maybe a lot of

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self delusion. Then, of course, some unfortunate ignorance. Hard to imagine that people train for a new field without ever spending an hour googling it, but judging from the posts now and then someone in the clutches of enthusiasm, or a salesperson, takes that leap. Maybe the schools warn them not to pay any attention to these forums? Describe us as kind of like an MT Breitbart site for malcontents who can't hack it?

Obviously, people really, really want to work from home. I did. And some HAVE to or not at all. And some of those just HAVE to.

I'm guessing, though, that if one decently paying, well advertised alternative home job was became available, the supply of people training to enter this field would dry up. And the the people who want to leave it flooding out, for that matter.

And where ARE they? Those new jobs? Everyone's working at home these days, or splitting between home and office. Clerical obviously belongs at home just as much, but those jobs have been shrinking as technology takes them over. That said, as the economic recovery continues, pent-up business expansion and development should present whole new ones requiring a few fairly quickly acquired skills. The trick is to be prepared to move into them.

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