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Tips for Telecommuters

Working Away From the Office

Learning the strategies to being more productive out of the office is one of the tips telecommuters need to be successful. This book is a must have tool in getting it right the first time around.

Types of Telecommuting Careers

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Telecommuting is not new, it has actually been around since the 1970's, it just was not as well known or publicized. Wives of military personnel often times needed to find work that would allow them to work from home to take care of the children and contribute to the household expenses.

Soldiers who were stationed over-seas for long periods of time created a challenge for the family. The wife needed to adjust to the new living conditions, possibly learn a new language and due to the limitation of working conditions could not work a traditional job.

Some of the more well-known types of telecommuting careers include:

1. Call Center Agent
2. Medical Coding/Transcription
3. Loan Document Processor
4. Legal Virtual Assistant
5. Headhunter Executive Recruiter
6. Data Entry Specialist
7. Telemarketing Phone Sales

These are just a few of the types of jobs you can work from home from legitimate employers. Many of the positions mentioned in this list will require that you have a work history, background experience and a resume to submit to job openings. Some interviews are done over the phone after you fill out a job application.

Turn your traditional work-related skills into an self-employment opportunity.

Paul and Sarah Edwards were the self-employment experts of the 1990's and they wrote plenty of books about working from home and working from a computer.

A popular book from them is entitled: The Best Home Businesses of the 21st Century you can read more about this book 

My Experience Working As A Teleworker

Entry Level Pay and Being On Call

My first experience of telecommuting for my job was out of college. I was hired to provide assistance to my office manager at the time. My title was as a data entry clerk, fortunately for me it allowed me to work remotely from my computer. My duties included entering my bosses notes that she would record at business meetings while traveling.

This is how I learned how to transcribe what is known as "meeting minutes" which entails typing the things being discussed during an office meeting among executives and program directors. The pay was entry level and I was on-call meaning that I only worked when my supervisor had her weekly meetings in various cities across the U.S.

It wasn't the highlight of my career but it was a great learning experience. I was able to learn how to be hyper-focused on the audio recordings being presented and documenting the main points being discussed that would later be included in a report that was distributed to all the attendees of the business meeting.

After about 6 months of doing this very tedious and boring job transcribing minutes, I found another job that payed better and gave me a regular 9 to 5 schedule. As you can see this was my first experience with telework in the beginning of my work career and before I started writing online.