Pros
flexibility, able to work from home. able to choose assignments to work on
Cons
low pay, the ocassional bad quality file, or files with lots of foreign language in the middle (you only realised it after you work half way through the file). also, beware the terrible reviewers. got one today who deleted whole chunks of my transcribed words, and pasted them back much lower... made it look like i omitted whole sentences though i certainly did not. reviewers suck. they seem more interested in correcting the grammar, rather than ensuring accuracy in the speech (instructions to transcribers were to be accurate, and write down even the spoken grammatical errors). i suspect this led to the low grading i got today, because i was trying to be accurate rather than correcting grammatical errors. very annoyed, filled dispute form.