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Finally got the insurance claims mailed off yesterday. It cost me just under $20.00 in envelopes and postage to submit just over $3,000 in claims. I don't even want to guess how much will actually be reimbursed, but I'm hoping for at least 50%.
It's kind of scary to think that spending a week on this project will likely net me more than I could have made if I worked the same amount of time at an actual job.
Of course, I don't have an actual job.
But I am, in fact, looking for work of the temporary variety. Hence my humbling visit to a temp agency on Tuesday.
For the record, I type 66 words per minute. Well, 69 if you don't count errors. And I'm sure I would have made fewer errors if the text I had to type hadn't been so poorly and ungrammatically written that I was copy-editing it in my head as I went along.
Also, I scored 90% on the Excel test and 87% on the Word one and am chagrined not to have done better. In my defense, let me say that I've been using both programs at least half as long as the guy who screened me has lived and never once had to use the "Web Page Preview" function. Little wonder that I did not know where to find it. (I know now, thank you very much.)
Today I found out that legal proofreading pays pretty well but that people generally don't want to hire a legal proofreader with, you know, a law degree—even one that's never been used and still in its original packaging. It seems that proofreaders without those pesky J.D.s are less inclined to overstep their bounds and better able to repress the desire to rewrite the text they've been asked to review.
Fair enough. But I'd like to point out that I did resist the urge to mark up the typing-test text mentioned above.
Maybe because it was encased in plastic.
It's kind of scary to think that spending a week on this project will likely net me more than I could have made if I worked the same amount of time at an actual job.
Of course, I don't have an actual job.
But I am, in fact, looking for work of the temporary variety. Hence my humbling visit to a temp agency on Tuesday.
For the record, I type 66 words per minute. Well, 69 if you don't count errors. And I'm sure I would have made fewer errors if the text I had to type hadn't been so poorly and ungrammatically written that I was copy-editing it in my head as I went along.
Also, I scored 90% on the Excel test and 87% on the Word one and am chagrined not to have done better. In my defense, let me say that I've been using both programs at least half as long as the guy who screened me has lived and never once had to use the "Web Page Preview" function. Little wonder that I did not know where to find it. (I know now, thank you very much.)
Today I found out that legal proofreading pays pretty well but that people generally don't want to hire a legal proofreader with, you know, a law degree—even one that's never been used and still in its original packaging. It seems that proofreaders without those pesky J.D.s are less inclined to overstep their bounds and better able to repress the desire to rewrite the text they've been asked to review.
Fair enough. But I'd like to point out that I did resist the urge to mark up the typing-test text mentioned above.
Maybe because it was encased in plastic.
posted by Jody Rosen Knower at 6:38 PM
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