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LibertyLinda · RV-Dreams Family Member

"Working" from your computer

NorCal Dan · RV-Dreams Family Member

I was going to suggest traveling nurse jobs...the only jobs I can think of for computer work that could be done remotely is either medical billing or transcription (if you want to stick with the medical field).

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

More and more jobs are moving to piece work and home office type situations, if you have the skills. Use your imagination and evaluate your skills and ability to learn. For example much of book publishing is moving online, the editing, the copy editing (different), the artwork and cover design, and the submital process are all via the internet. People who can embrace technology and be flexible will do well.

LibertyLinda · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks NorCal dan & bjoyce.

Its difficult to try to plan when the world will be so different in 3-5 years when we get ready to go.
So far I've found tons of Travel Nurse agencies, as well as "work from home" computer stuff, that I'll have to sift through the less than reputable companies. In the meantime, I'm trying to think outside the box too.

One thing is clear: we will need an income stream, & "retirement income" we are preparing to have very little or not have at all, e.g. Social Security (I've never planned on having that anyway). When we get closer we will know better how much we will need to survive.

Love the ideas - hope they keep coming!

Cosmo · RV-Dreams Community Member

It seems that very few here (and on other forums) that make their living on the internet want to share exactly what they do. Perhaps they are afraid of loosing their exclusivity and feel that if they were to divulge this information it will somehow hurt their ability to continue making their living this way.

Telecommuting is nothing new. People have been doing it for the last decade or so and some even longer. If you have the skill set to work at a desk on software, then you have the ability to do it remotely as well. Finding these types of jobs however I liken to finding a needle in a haystack.

If any of you out there are confident in your abilities enough to divulge this seemingly secret way of making a living, please do.

-- Edited by Cosmo on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 06:17:33 PM

lb311 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Hey Linda:
As you might know, there's an electronic revolution going on in healthcare right now. I work for a electronic health records (EHR) software company and we're migrating physician offices from paper (or other EHRs) to our system as fast as possible. It's literally a gold rush right now. CMS is providing incentives to physician practices who are electronic as the longer-term goal is to transform our reimbursement systems to how healthy clinicians keep patients rather than how many procedures/visits they do. With all this clinical data and shift in payment structure, there is a rapidly growing need for clinicians who are tech-savvy, and for nurses who can help keep patients healthy in-between their doctor visits. Some jobs are closer to traditional nursing (such as visiting home nurses who carry a laptop and update a patient's chart right from their living room!), to tele-nurses who assist patients with various biometric devices which stream vitals data from the patient's home to the health provider's data center, or tele-nurses who work for insurance carriers or other HMO/Wellness groups to coach patients with wellness goals. There are also jobs to be had in infomatics (analysis of all the clincal data these systems are generating), and software systems consulting-- such as doing webcast training or software demo's on software systems to new clinic clients, helping them design & build their electronic clinical note templates, etc. Do a Wikipedia & Google search of Telenursing for some ideas. Also HIMSS.org might give you some good ideas on the software/IT end of the industry. The future is very bright for your skillset & tech aptitude!

Travel Bug · RV-Dreams Family Member

Here is another job dealing with putting paper records into electronic form: Medical Records Field Technician. The company is ECS (Electronic Consulting Solutions) based in Phoenix, AZ. ECS has Field Technician positions all over the U.S.

The Medical Records Field Technician gets the names of medical clinics/doctor's offices, etc., along with the charts they need to scan fom ECS every night. ECS provides a scanner and a laptop.

Your job is to go out each day and scan all the charts they've assigned you, then upload them to ECS. The company would like for you to commit to a minimum of 12 weeks.

NOTE: You must have a working knowledge of medical charts and know where to find information iin them. You also must take a test and get HIPPA certified. (They paid me two hours for my study/test time.) You have to have a high-speed internet connection and a printer as you will need to print out a number of pages for your assignments for the day.

It sounds like a good job and you work independently. I have not worked for them for a length of time yet as our lives recently took a 180 degree turn from what we were doing. I am keeping in touch with them for future work, though.

-- Edited by Travel Bug on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 11:35:43 PM

-- Edited by Travel Bug on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 11:36:10 PM

-- Edited by Travel Bug on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 11:36:57 PM

Cosmo · RV-Dreams Community Member

Thanks lb311 & Travel Bug. Keep them coming.

Defiant · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thank you for the replies! Keep them coming! My Lovely and very intelligent wife (Ann4now) is working diligently and doing the research to make this possibility a reality, me I am a jack of many trades but my current career is in telecommunications (fiberoptics,network cabling,telephones) , our minds are made up, we will be fulltiming ,we will still have to have an income stream and will do whatever we have to to make it happen, we are fed up with New York (upstate) taxes, cost of living ,political climate and the winters, And we would like to see all that this great country has to offer ! So keep the suggestions and or options coming ,we appreciate the help

LibertyLinda · RV-Dreams Family Member

lb311 & travel bug - Thank you for those leads. It will be really amazing what technology will be like in a couple of years to enable fulltimers to make money much more easily ;) I will check them out.
I am looking into legal nurse consulting - anyone have insight or experience with this field?

Oh, and that Defiant is some nice guy...

BobandMichelle · RV-Dreams Community Member

www.flexjobs.com is a great resource for telecommuting jobs and I've seen many of them for the health care industry. There is a monthly fee of $14.95 to join, but I think it will be worth it for you.

I have been looking on there for awhile now. The majority of my work experience is in elementary education and those are hard to come by so I haven't had any luck yet. I would also be interested in writing, proofreading, research, blogging, etc., but everything I've read says it takes awhile to make any sort of decent income with those types of jobs and I don't have awhile to wait. (My boyfriend and I are in our early to mid-30s so there is no retirement income for us and we have debts that are not paid off yet so I can't wait awhile to make money.)

Anyway, like I was saying earlier, I've seen quite a few telecommuting jobs within the health care industry on there so you might want to check it out.

LibertyLinda · RV-Dreams Family Member

Michelle & Bob, Thanks for this website, I will check that out. Good luck with your pursuits, I'm finding that it takes a ton of research so far, so keep looking. smile

BobandMichelle · RV-Dreams Community Member

You're welcome

. Let us know if you find anything...good luck!

sthrngirl · RV-Dreams Community Member

NorCal Dan wrote:
I was going to suggest traveling nurse jobs...the only jobs I can think of for computer work that could be done remotely is either medical billing or transcription (if you want to stick with the medical field).

Just wanted to say that I have THE BEST job I have ever had working from home on my computer (and no it is not a scam, or a pyramid scheme, I don't get paid any money for telling people about it). I rate websites for Leapforceathome (aka Google) I am considered permanently and totally disabled by Social Security and am on SSDI. This is one of the few jobs I could hold down since some days or weeks I can't work at all and I can't maintain any sort of "normal" schedule. With this job I can work as few as 5 hours a month or as many as I am able to do. I have to be careful to not go over $720 per month or I will incur a trial work month. I try to average 2 hours per day working. Sometimes you may be ready to work and there may not be work, but for the past two months there has been plenty, except the last weekend of the month. You do need a secure internet connection for any of the jobs I am going to list. They are also independent contractor positions so you need to take responsibility for your own taxes.

http//www.leapforceathome.com

There is another one which requires you to work more. They want 10-20 hours per week during the day, but if you can do that it may be a good fit.

http://en-us.lionbridge.com/global-crowdsourcing/jobs/default.htm

Then there is Workforce Logic. This is an ad rater for Google. Right now they are not hiring for America, but may be in the future.

Good luck!