Re: Layed off, starting over, is Court Reporting a good choi

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On 11/09/08, Andrea wrote:
> Daryl, if you want to take up court reporting in your 40's GO
> FOR IT!! I have been working for the past 18 years as a court
> monitor at our local courthouse, and decided to teach myself at
> home, part time at age 44, several years ago. I took the home
> study course from Stenograph, Phoenix theory and paid about $150
> at the time for the home study book, tapes and CD.
>
> I have now been doing steno at the same courthouse for 2 years
> and never regretted one day of it!! I'm presently looking for
> scopists as you'll see from a recent post that I put up.
> Luckily our managers were more than willing to let me "practice"
> live in the courthouse, while their tape system was also running
> in the background.
>
> Now, I'm getting more and more in demand as my speed has gone
> from initially 60wpm to 200 on a "good day". You can also do
> work for the hearing impaired, freelance companies, or closed
> captioning.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> Andrea

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