Freelance/Part-time jobs

Philippines
August 16, 2007 8:02am CST
Have you tried freelancing? Did you get paid? I used to have part-time transcription and writting jobs but I never got paid so I stopped. How unfortunate.
1 response
• Philippines
16 Aug 07
Yup I tried freelancing, but not thru ionternet, its basic and intermediate tutorial one on one, I have heard so many people saying that transcriptionist is not true. Have you tried to contact the company?
• Philippines
16 Aug 07
Well, actually I am a transcriptionist. I'm paid per day and not based on the length of the audio or the line count so I tried freelancing which, as you know, I was never paid. I've sent my invoice a few times already, followed it up, I've even talk to their, I think, HR personnel, and I got nothing. I guess one of the reasons why some people think that transcription is not true or does not exist is because, well, I've seen a number of transcription companies closing down because they don't have clients which is the essence of it all. It's easier to put up a transcription company than finding and building relationships with clients. And also, there are those who claimed to be online transcription companies but actually they will just try to get you buy their software products.