Danielle
01-04-2003, 05:33 PM
Hi everyone. My name is Danielle and I'm 23 years old. I have been reading this board for a few weeks now and thought I would introduce myself and tell you about my life. Feel free to comment or just feel better that you're not me...lol.
I went to school to be a court reporter and loved it. I was the second best writer in the class. I passed the state test on my first try and the national test on my second. I had found my career! I was sooo looking forward to the future. I was going to be independent, successful, rich and happy...
I lasted a year in the field. To say I hated it would be an understatement. I was in a constant state of anxiety. My body would shake as I got to where the deposition was being held, my hands would tremble as I tried to write on the machine and I would pray that every question was the last one. When it literally made me sick to my stomach to hear the phone ring or the fax machine go off, I knew it was time for me to do the best thing for myself and everyone around me...I quit. It was the hardest decision I ever had to make. I had worked my butt off for two years going to school every day for six hours, practicing/doing homework on the machine for two hours every night when I got home. It was all for nothing. I watched people struggle to pass tests, miss crazy amounts of days, never do homework and guess what? They're still in the field making a ton of money and some love it. It makes me sooo angry.
It took me a month to get another job. I worked as a medical transcriptionist for eight months and got laid off on 11/19 and have been unemployed since. I have been sending out resume after resume with no luck. I will never go back to court reporting even though sometimes I do want to start writing on it again and I don't have enough experience to be a medical transcriptionist unless it is with an agency and I still probably don't have enough experience for an agency to hire me.
I might have the opportunity, through unemployment, to go to school to get training. I'm going to take advantage of it but I'm so scared to put any more of my time into something for nothing. I don't really know what I want to do with my life. I'm afraid to pick the wrong field.
I thought I knew where my life was going and who I was going to share it with but I don't anymore. Who am I going to share it with? Well, that's a whole 'nother thread which I'll probably get to later.
Thanks for listening and sorry it was so long.
I went to school to be a court reporter and loved it. I was the second best writer in the class. I passed the state test on my first try and the national test on my second. I had found my career! I was sooo looking forward to the future. I was going to be independent, successful, rich and happy...
I lasted a year in the field. To say I hated it would be an understatement. I was in a constant state of anxiety. My body would shake as I got to where the deposition was being held, my hands would tremble as I tried to write on the machine and I would pray that every question was the last one. When it literally made me sick to my stomach to hear the phone ring or the fax machine go off, I knew it was time for me to do the best thing for myself and everyone around me...I quit. It was the hardest decision I ever had to make. I had worked my butt off for two years going to school every day for six hours, practicing/doing homework on the machine for two hours every night when I got home. It was all for nothing. I watched people struggle to pass tests, miss crazy amounts of days, never do homework and guess what? They're still in the field making a ton of money and some love it. It makes me sooo angry.
It took me a month to get another job. I worked as a medical transcriptionist for eight months and got laid off on 11/19 and have been unemployed since. I have been sending out resume after resume with no luck. I will never go back to court reporting even though sometimes I do want to start writing on it again and I don't have enough experience to be a medical transcriptionist unless it is with an agency and I still probably don't have enough experience for an agency to hire me.
I might have the opportunity, through unemployment, to go to school to get training. I'm going to take advantage of it but I'm so scared to put any more of my time into something for nothing. I don't really know what I want to do with my life. I'm afraid to pick the wrong field.
I thought I knew where my life was going and who I was going to share it with but I don't anymore. Who am I going to share it with? Well, that's a whole 'nother thread which I'll probably get to later.
Thanks for listening and sorry it was so long.