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Category Archives: Work Life Priorities

Why I Considered Leaving Transcription

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. If you’ve read my blog at all, you know that I really love working as a transcriptionist, but I recently contemplated leaving the field. Spoiler – I didn’t. I’m still a transcriptionist. I’m […]

It Is Okay To Want Less

by Joanna Norman This post may contain affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. An old friend of mine recently posted a quote on social media: “If you’re not working on it evenings and weekends, then you don’t want it as bad as you say you […]

Office Buddies Update

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. Who are your work-at-home office buddies? In a very early blog post I introduced you to my non-human co-workers who are the best office mates ever. Having my animals at work with me […]

Five Traits of a Toxic Workplace

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. For years, I worked in toxic work places, and I didn’t even realize that was what was going on. I just knew that I dreaded going to work much of the time or […]

How Transcription Freed Me from Workplace Culture

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. I’ve been reflecting lately on workplace culture and feeling like the “other”. Since starting my own transcription business I have been free from all of that, and it is so much healthier for […]

Norman Transcription Featured on Side Hustle Nation

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Nick of Side Hustle Nation about general transcription. If you’d like to know more about how you can earn money transcribing audio, check out the video on […]

Advice for Success as a Transcriptionist

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. I was recently featured as one of four general transcriptionists on the Transcribe Anywhere blog: https://www.transcribeanywhere.com/blog/4-Top-General-Transcriptionists-Give-their-Best-Advice-for-Success-in-2021 If you have questions about how to start your career as a transcriptionist, I’m happy to answer them and […]

Moving & Transcription

by Joanna Norman This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something I may earn a commission. Thanks. I am happy to report that moving to a new state and working as a transcriptionist are perfectly compatible. That’s all.  Here is where this post becomes like some cooking/recipe blogs, you know, the ones […]