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- Is Your Fear Real or Imagined?
- Realtime: Taming Your Fears
- 121 Easy and Delicious Healthy Snacks
- Realtime: It’s Worth It
- 15 Common Grammar Mistakes that Kill Your Writing Credibilty
- Confusing Words
- Seven Proven Time Management Tips
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Hello,
Thank you for your recent feedback about how we can help you do your job better! At your request, we have a new and improved job worksheet, and we are working on the other suggestions from you. These will be rolling out over the next few weeks.
I hope you enjoy this selection of articles, and, as always, please let us know what we could be doing to make your job easier!
Best,
Sheila
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Is Your Fear Real or Imagined?
By Ron Cook
Providing realtime for the first (and second, third, fourth, and so on) time is extremely uncomfortable. It was for me and for whoever I’ve ever talked to about their first attempts. I have never heard of anybody providing realtime for the first time and being completely confident and comfortable.
The fact of the matter is that the first days and weeks of realtime will be uncomfortable. However, the same can be said of the first days at any job. I can remember long ago, before learning about court reporting, when I became a recreation leader at an elementary school. I hadn’t been a recreation leader before; I was totally out of my comfort zone. As the days passed, as I got more and more experience and started to get the hang of it, I became more and more comfortable.
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Realtime: Taming Your Fears
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By Kathy Cortopassi
The worst fear, believe it or not, was the first time I ever captioned the Business Meeting for the NCRA Annual Convention. Not captioning the speeches of the President of the United States. Not captioning any live U.S. Senate or House speeches. Not providing CART for hundreds or thousands of people for hundreds of events over these 30-plus years I’ve been doing this job.
The NCRA. My peers. Fellow captioners. Fellow realtimers. Fellow CART providers. People who could “read through” my mistakes. People who could understand when I fingerspelled or when I had a phrase pop up (Oh, she must have a brief for that!), people who would be “air steno’g” what I was writing, people who would be able to tell how fast/slow the speakers were speaking.
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