Hi, my name is Elle Al-Ajmi and I am on level three of the proofread transcript course. And I'm currently sitting in my very small office at work just doing the mundane things that come with being a recent college grad during a pandemic. So my cousin, she did proofread anywhere, and she gave me advice on where to start, where to look, how to do research. And I did the 70 minute talk about general proofreading, and then I decided that I think transcript proofreading was a good place for me to start. So I started there and after the first module, I felt pretty confident. And during the second one, learning about grammar and comma rules and hyphens, I was like, this is absolutely fabulous. I love it. This is exactly what I want to do. So I passed my wordsmiths test and now I'm on module three and I'm learning all of the nitty-gritty details.

And I'm very excited because my goal is to start my own transcripting business and make enough money that I don't have to work at a job in a law firm when I don't even want to work in law and I don't really like it, but I'm just waiting and patiently going through my course so that I can have a career that I can have control over and something that'll bring in income while I, as a 22 year old who has no idea what she wants to do for the long-term, can figure out if this is where I want to go, or if maybe I want to work for the State Department or other companies, but I know that I'll always have transcript proofreading to fall back on, and I could not be more excited to have a level of control over my future that during this time is very difficult to find. So I am hoping that I can pass all my tests and that I'll be able to have my own proofreading business by the new year so that I can start 2021 off a little more positive than 2020 has been.