Why I want to be an MT
I am a single mother with a 5 year old daughter that is going to be starting Kindergarten this fall. I am currently working a 2nd shift job for $10 an hour and I only have one day off a week, so I don’t get to see her very much. She spends a lot of time at a babysitters or with my parents that live two hours away. I want to become a medical transcriptionist because it will allow me to be a stay at home mother and still have the income to take care of my child. It will give me the freedom to be home with her, go to her school events and be more involved in her life. It will give us the time together that we don’t get now and I won’t have to depend on other people so much. We will be able to take trips and not have to worry about having enough money or time to go. I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, however I have not worked in that field since I had my daughter. I decided on a career change after I had her and I have been doing customer service/sales jobs. The hours are terrible and I am making enough just to pay the bills. I want to start a new career in the medical transcription at home because it is an amazing field to get into. I have a couple of family members that are RN’s and they keep telling me to get into the medical field. If I could go back to when I started college I would have gone into the medical field for sure. It is a field that will always be in need. Working as a medical transcriptionist will give me knowledge about things I never knew about. SN:0MA9N2ESY
I was a CNA for a little while after college and I learned a lot of medical terms and what certain injuries look like, how to use certain tools, measure in cc’s, etc. I really enjoyed being a CNA but the work took a toll on my shoulders so I had to quit. Doing this would, in a way, would bring me back to that, learning new terms and feeling intelligent about what I was doing. It will give me the sense of helping people again but in a different way. Having a career as a medical transcriptionist would make me feel good about myself and I wouldn’t be ashamed to tell people what I do for a living. It would teach me new things, challenge me, educate me on medical terms, parts of the body I don’t know and maybe even make me go on to something more. It would also give me the ability to educate my daughter. Taking this course would not only give me a new career but it opens up my education too. At first I would work for a company but I have always wanted to open up my own business so maybe down the road this would be what I can do. Open up a business for medical transcriptionists. I would love to be my own boss and have my own hours so I can have a family life and not be punching a clock all the time. Being a work from home medical transcriptionist would be the best thing I ever did, expect for my daughter, of course. It will open the doors for so many things for me and for my family. Not only would it make me feel good about myself for succeeding in something new it would also show my daughter that you can change your life at any point in your life if you really want to.