On Monday, for the first time in 49 days, I was able to post the following status:
“Time to make the donuts!”
The people I proof for are slowly picking up work again and as a result, I am starting to get work again as well.
Yesterday I proofed 150 pages, and when I listened to the recording, I felt everyone’s pain.
For right now, lawyers, deponents, and court reporters are having to do their jobs via Zoom, or Google Meet, or whatever videoconference platform they are using. They’re doing their jobs the same way millions of people around the world are: in living rooms, bedrooms, dining rooms, home offices; using Internet, using desktops, laptops, iPads, and phones.
They’re working the same way that I am attending church and that my son is attending school. Only in the 21st century would this be possible!
The one disadvantage to my particular job, however, is called sound quality. I listen to recordings as part of my job, and unfortunately, meeting via videoconference is not always conducive to audible legibility.
So it means often playing a portion of a recording over and over, trying to figure out if the person really is saying what the transcript has recorded them saying. And it means sometimes straining your ears and turning up the volume.
I’m not always crazy about working, and sometimes the tedium of the job can get to me.
But I appreciate the fact that I am working. There are people that can’t say that right now.
So it’s nice to be able to say it again:
“Time to make the donuts!”
And, also time to sing our theme song:
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine!
Just my .04, adjusted for inflation.
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