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court reporting - anon

Posted: Jan 23rd, 2016 - 2:12 pm In Reply to: Funny, I was just looking at a scoping school website - last night...looked interesting

I started court reporting school many years ago and didn't finish. Sometimes I wonder if I would be better off completing it rather than doing MT like I am now.

Just out of curiosity, I looked at the school's website recently. They still have a Court Reporting/Realtime Reporting program. It now can be taken completely online and the tuition is $30,000! It was around $5,000 when I attended. Not to mention the thousands you have to spend on purchasing your own machine, computer software, etc. Ridiculous.

Back in the day, I just couldn't reach the speed on the machine to graduate and gave up. Two students I started the program with really worked hard, breezed through the program, graduated and got great jobs. I wonder what the industry is like now.

I would think it would be tough to do scoping for court reporters. A lot of them create their own shorthand, like MTs create their own expanders or templates or whatever. A lot has probably changed though since I was involved in it.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has experience or input on this topic as I've often wondered how the field is fairing.

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Has anyone considered scoping/court reporting? - sm (Views: 950, 2016-01-23, 8:12 am)
- My sister was a court reporter. - nan (Views: 975, 2016-01-23, 9:23 am)
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  - Yes, it is the same situation when I looked at it - some years ago. SM (Views: 963, 2016-01-23, 4:14 pm)
- My thoughts on that - Coder (Views: 901, 2016-01-23, 6:31 pm)
  - Coder, where did you go to school for coding? - sm (Views: 871, 2016-01-24, 1:32 pm)
    - Oh, guess ... - Coder (Views: 897, 2016-01-24, 4:59 pm)
  - The market is currently being flooded, though. Just like - they did to MT. nm (Views: 977, 2016-01-24, 5:00 pm)
    - That is ridiculous. No it isn't being flooded. - sm (Views: 927, 2016-01-24, 6:22 pm)
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