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What jobs/degrees are you all heading for? - alphamt


Posted: Oct 24, 2010

A friend suggested transcribing for the deaf, requires passing a 180-200 wpm test from conversation.  Anyone done/doing this? 

It is a great consolation to get all of your support.  MT Stars is wonderful to give us this opportunity.  MQ never was able to maintain a professional forum.

No degrees, but I need to learn how to build a fire by - rubbing two sticks together, and - sm

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how to make arrowheads, hunt, an gather wild berries, because the way things are going in this industry, and in fact the entire country, that's the only way a lot of us are going to be able to survive.

I am going for biomedical engineer. - anon

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