Real-Life Decision Making -- Solution
You quit your job and work from home.
You thank the doctor very much for his offer, but you decide that your
best bet is to decline the promotion and quit the clinic. The doctor is very
disappointed and your co-workers are questioning your sanity after turning
down such a fantastic offer.
Your reliable paycheck will disappear and your benefits will diminish.
But you want to spend more time with your children and your spouse.
You acquire a business license to subcontract work and use your severance
money to buy up-to-date medical terminology books, transcription equipment
and software.
You then contact several medical transcription companies you know that
subcontract work out to medical transcriptionists who work from home. At this
point, you are living off savings money and relying on your spouse to pay
for the car, the mortgage and other expenses. There is now more tension than
there was before.
But work starts to trickle in. You set your own hours and decide what you
will and won't do. You also charge by the line, a method that gives you almost
the same amount per hour as you were making before.
Mary Quintigliani is a medical transcriptionist who made the decision to
work from home. She says it was the right decision for her, especially as
a parent.
But everyone must set their own priorities and adapt to whatever work situation
they choose.
"I guess it just depend on each person individually, as to
how much time you going to put into it and how to make it work," says Quintigliani.