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Is The Recession Finally Coming To An End?

I was volunteering for the day in a women’s refuge in January 2008 when I heard on the radio that the stock market had crashed, and I just knew that this was going to be very bad news for the … Continue reading

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A British Transcriber In France

As a British expat living in Brittany, France, one of the first questions you’ll be asked by another expat within the first five minutes of meeting them is, what do you do for a living?  That’s because here the expats … Continue reading

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Digital Transcription and why I Love the Inventor of the Foot Pedal

It was when I first became a transcriber for McGowan Transcriptions in August 2010 that I truly understood the importance of my Infinity foot pedal! I had just started getting a few audio files through and working from my garden … Continue reading

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Don’t Be Square – Check Your Chair!

It’s not often that my height becomes an issue during the course of audio typing, but when I recently incurred muscle injury as a result of an incorrectly configured chair, I realised that being six foot one has real implications … Continue reading

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