What is a Scopist?
Can I work at home as a Scopist?
If you are proficient in English, punctuation, researching, formatting, proofreading and enjoy working as a partner to a senior team member, then scoping may be the work at home opportunity for you. A scopist is a professional that will work with a court reporter, to edit, translate, research and correctly format, information received, using specific software.
There are many courses taught online, that will prepare you to work at home as a scopist. The course programs run from $1,000 up to $1,700.00 depending on the depth of the course you choose. You will learn how to sharpen your grammar and punctuation skills, how to read steno, (some provide step-by-step, hands on lessons), how to familiarize yourself with the medical and legal terminology, learning what reference materials will be essential in your jobs, and how to perform internet research.
Many experienced scopist earn above average incomes, working as an independent contractor from home. Most scopist are paid starting at $1.00 per page for regular testimony and above for expert/video testimony. As with most occupations, it is important to continue learning your skill and stay abreast on the latest developments in your line of work. Your learning experience combined with your work experience will be a determining factor in obtaining high paying jobs.
Before you make an investment like this, you should be sure to do your homework. Take a few moments and ask yourself, if this is something that you enjoy enough to want to take the time to thoroughly learn the business, and continually learn your craft.
Are you ordinarily efficient in English, grammar and punctuation or do you find that 90% of your time is dependent on reference materials to help you.Knowing the description of this type of job, have you ever found yourself enjoying similar types of projects before you considered this type of job. If so, then maybe you have found something that you may be passionate about.Presupposing you knew nothing about the course of study necessary to become a good scopist, would you now be looking forward to the coursework, with excited anticipation, or would you be just hoping that you can get though this “great & overwhelming challenge“.? If you can see yourself breezing though this course, with a secondary challenge of finding and partnering with a court reporter, then this may be a good work at home option for you. However, if you are planning to use your saving to invest in this course, and have no confidence in your ability to even complete the course, as well as planning that a job will miraculously appear at the completion of your training, then this may not be for you.My advice would be to visit various forum on this topic as part of your research, before you decide if this is the program for you. You may want to visit the court reporters forum
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