About

• Grandscribing…because technology helps the "speak slower" and "speak up" crowds
• Grandscribing…because we still can
• Grandscribing…because they can’t dictate any more surprises
• Grandscribing…because gray is beautiful
• Grandscribing…because we waited long enough for it
• Grandscribing…because apple turnover better than we do
• Grandscribing…because we can no longer see the grandscrape

A profession such as transcribing can be daunting to some mature people. This international forum can help us meet the challenge.

Submit your query to the Grandscribing forum, and receive responses from subscribers around the world.

Our immense collective information, background, and knowledge can help us help each other be successful in our work.

Topics

This forum includes professional queries, recommendations, and tips for dealing with professional issues that arise among mature transcriptionists. It also includes a considerable amount of venting, but we also did that when we were younger.

Who should join

• Those who can still find their trifocals
• Those whose Alzheimer’s helps them forget about their arthritis
• Elderly people who want to know about transcribing
• Those who work with the elderly
• Executives who do not transcribe but want to know what options are available
• Typists
• Transcriptionists
• Agencies that hire typists or transcriptionists
• Translators
• Editors
• Writers
• Proofreaders

Who should not join Grandscribing?

• If your trifocals need to be removed in order to read 48-point type
• If you can't fight off Brownies who want to help you cross the street – even though you wanted to rest on the bench on the same side of the street
• If you have to rest your fingers after transcribing ten minutes of static (no text)…

Then you may be too old to join Grandscribing.

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