27-07-2015, 10:19 AM
It is not clear from your post that you are willing to take MT as a full-time career or only part-time career. As far as my knowledge in the MT field (about 7 years) it is not worth career to take it as full-time career because the pay is very low and competition is very high in this field. If you have no other career then only you may take this as a career that is my opinion. I am working from home from about 5 years and total experience of MT 7 years I am getting average 12 to 14,000/per. I do not what others are getting with same experience. I am working day time. I do not find working night comfortable, so I do not go to night-time work. Now a days US MT work comes in mostly at night time. If one is comfortable with night-time work he may earn more may be 20 to 30,000 Rs/month with direct upload work with several years experience. I do not how many year's experience is needed to get direct upload work, after 7 years of experience I still did not get direct upload work.
As far as home based job in MT companies will not give work without having one or two years experience as an in-house MT. In MT there is a possibility of misunderstanding words (that is dictator is saying a word and MT is hearing like some other words). This only improves with experience.
You have some advantage of medical background regarding understanding medical words. Online MT courses claim they will give 100% home job after successful completion of training but they usually do not give home MT job. One needs to work at least one year or more of in-house MT work to get home MT jobs. If you are ready to go in-house most big companies have their own in-house training that is free of charge but you need to give bond to work for certain amount of years for those companies.
With regard to home MT job companies usually now a days not giving easy work to home MTs. They only give tough work to home MT and they give work on line count basis. So line count becomes less with tough dictations. Companies claim to give home MT work on salary basis also but they restrict MTs salary on the basis of quality based incentives. They give a basic salary which is 12,000 or 13,000/month.
Again based on my personal experience MT work is not a rewarding job now a days and one can do it if one is not getting any other field jobs.
As far as home based job in MT companies will not give work without having one or two years experience as an in-house MT. In MT there is a possibility of misunderstanding words (that is dictator is saying a word and MT is hearing like some other words). This only improves with experience.
You have some advantage of medical background regarding understanding medical words. Online MT courses claim they will give 100% home job after successful completion of training but they usually do not give home MT job. One needs to work at least one year or more of in-house MT work to get home MT jobs. If you are ready to go in-house most big companies have their own in-house training that is free of charge but you need to give bond to work for certain amount of years for those companies.
With regard to home MT job companies usually now a days not giving easy work to home MTs. They only give tough work to home MT and they give work on line count basis. So line count becomes less with tough dictations. Companies claim to give home MT work on salary basis also but they restrict MTs salary on the basis of quality based incentives. They give a basic salary which is 12,000 or 13,000/month.
Again based on my personal experience MT work is not a rewarding job now a days and one can do it if one is not getting any other field jobs.
