A warm welcome from CSRnation, thanks for joining.
please join the Court Reporters group to your right.
just click "Court Reporters" and "Join Court Reporters"

We are into our 2nd week, give it some time, it should get very exciting around here.

Just a heads up. if you look at the top of your page to the left, you will see a person icon and a mail icon, click on the little guy and add me to your friends list (assuming you would want to, lol).
also, you can send private messages if ever need be.
you can add pictures, music and videos to your page.
if you have any questions please let me know.

Hi Michael, thanks for inviting your friends and for all your support.
Monti

Hi, Michael,

Thanks for inviting me over to this little group. It's a great way to network and bring more court reporters in touch with each other.
Matthew

Hey, Michael! I did send you that stuff already. Check your spam mailbox. Maybe it was sent there. I will re-send just to make sure. Have a great holiday!

Hi, Michael,

I'm in Brooklyn visiting my family. I think this might be fun. Thanks for getting me connected to this site.

Have a wonderful holiday. Maybe we can get together with Susan after the first of the year.

Tt

Hi. First off, let me thank you for all of your compliments and the congrats you've given me on passing my test. I will definitely be looking forward to getting some information from you. I know I'll have a ton of questions starting out; and yes, I will look you up for that.

You got it right: "nails" in steno. I am a licensed manicurist for the last 20 years, and that's where that screen name came from. So now I'm about to embark on a long-awaited career change. I'm looking forward to it. I do like designing these pages and learning HTML formatting. It's time consuming, but I love the results after I've slaved over a page for hours.

So do you do a lot of freelance work nowadays or what? I look forward to hearing from you. By the way, my name is Rena'.

Hi, Michael, I just joined. From time to time I will have questions to ask you. It is always good to get a male's perspective of this profession.
Tricia

Hi Michael.

Surprisingly, I have never heard of her. I've been at this since '91. I'll have to watch for her. Is she a member here? I recently have been in contact with a CSR who lives a few blocks from me. The Internet is a wonderful place. Makes the world that much smaller.

Take care,
Tricia -- another one as I see the post below mine is a Tricia also

Hello Michael, I just a baby in this field. But I love checking in and asking questions. Thanks for the help. It is very much appreciated.

LOL Thanks, Michael, for the compliment. :) It's so nice to meet you on here. So you've been at this a while, huh?? I'm sure you've got a lot of advice to offer. How is it to work in Cali?? Do you work like crazy out there freelancing? I think I'm pretty spoiled compared to others in the field.

Hello Michael,

I do remember you :-) How have you been. I gave Darrell your "Hello" and he says "Hello".

A C.D.R. is a Certified Deposition Reporter. Take care a give us a call if you find you calendar on the slow side.

Awww, thanks, Michael. I can't help but to think you do have some helpful tips for me because you've been at this for "a little" while longer than myself even though I've been in the game for a while as well. It'll be five years in February! This profession has been good to me, so I'll continue to be good to this profession.

You do have a lot of advice to offer students, I'm sure of that. I'll definitely keep in touch with you on here. Have a good one.

Thanks for the love!! I will "definitely" :) be picking your brain.

I am very glad to get to know other working reportesr, Michael. Keep in touch and thanks for the offer of suggestions and tips, any are very much appreciated, I have left my e-mail for people to get ahold of me when I'm not on CSRnation.

I'm glad you enjoyed the tunes. I added some more music today. I do have a question but not about court reporting. I was wondering what is fastest typing speed for a regular typist?

Thank you. I'm very proud of my degree from Tuskegee. I'm thinking of going for my MBA because I want to own a reporting firm, and why not have a MBA if it's going to make me more marketable? To answer your question, I don't have any kids. My age is nun uh....lol....I just had a birthday, I'm sure you can guesstimate. I've been hearing that word, "guesstimate" so much, it's such an odd word to me. Anyway, I go to Humphreys College and when I'm finished I plan to return to the Bay Area and start reporting on jobs or become an official. I'm not sure, I just may do both, while I'm still young with no obligations. Anyway, it's good to see a brotha in the field. Too bad the BCRA is no longer in existence.

No offense taken, I wasn't aware she was referring to you at first anyways.

I appreciate any advice from seasoned reporters.

So please don't hesitate! I hope you're having a wonderful day over on the West Coast of the U.S.

Hello Michael,
I'm glad you are in California. I am familiar with the area you live in. I have lived all over California. I plan to return after I finish school, it's too gloomy here.

Hello Michael - aka SuperDad

I don't know how you do it! Single and four kids and this profession is a life full. Calling me sista is fine :) So you've migrated over to Case Catalyst 8. That's great. I used to be on Premier Power as well so I know where you're coming from. You will love Case Catalyst. It will make producing your transcripts a breeze. If you have any questions, I would be happy to help you out if I can. Yes, I'm here in this snowy, miserable, icy, freezing, frigid, horrifyingly cold Michigan and I hate it! You wouldn't think I've lived here all my life, but I have and I still hate winter. I should have moved to a warmer climate when I had the chance but I now I have to wait until I retire. Anyway, I haven't been on here lately because I'm buried in transcripts and have been in a four week criminal trial which I pray will end sometime this week. I decided to take a quick break -- which always leads to a hour or more once I'm on the internet. I sure wish I was in California right now. How is the weather there? I have never been there but will be visiting when I attend the national convention this summer. Well, back to work for me. Take care.

Hi there. I'm trying to cover a job for a client of mine in downtown LA on Wednesday, March 19th at 10:00. It will go two to three hours. If you are available, you can email me at mobriencsr@cox.net. Thanks.

Hi, thank you for adding me. I am soo excited to get to talk to other court reporters and captioners. I only know like one court reporter, and she was the Dean for my old school, and now that I am attending a new school, I only know the students. I need sooo much help it isn't funny. I struggle, but I hold on tight for the next test you know? There is so much more to learn.

Hi, and thank you for your advice. That is the most wonderful thing that I have ever heard or read. And my thing is the test anxiety nowa days. It is nerve racking and that is a thing that I seem not to get away from. Do you have any advice or exercises for this proble.

Woah!!! that was amazing. It was like being there myself.LOL...I really believe that way is the best way. I am gonna start using that technique now. When I get an exam I am going to challenge them like come on give me something that I don't know. I am gonna do that tonight as a matter of fact. Thank you sooooo much for that.

Hey there, I tried those techniques that you let me know about and I passed the 160 jury that I had been trying to pass, and now tomorrow and Friday are test marathon and I am going to take advantage of some tests on those days also. Everything is starting to seem slow now I know I have these tests now.

Hi Michael,
Here's the link for the So Cal CSR Forum:

http://groups.msn.com/SoCalCSRForum

The group was formed and is headed by Marla Williams, CSR. The site's got lots of goodies, helpful info and input.
I will get pix up on my page. I've joined about four or five forums recently and I'll have to put some time aside and update all of my pages.
Hopefully, we will run into each other at the Anaheim convention. I've been reporting since '85, and I'm an RPR, CRR since '96 and started the RMR in '97, gave the test taking a break, and still have yet to pass that two-voice but I'm signing up for the Nov. testing.
Take care, Michael, and I hope to meet you in person at the convention.
April McMillan
On The Record Reporting

Hey Michael,
I finally added those pix to my page. Check 'em out :)
April

I just happened to be reading the side posts and noticed that you wanted to share your expertise with me. I went to your page, and found that the advice you gave to Javari was the best I've heard yet. I would like to welcome you as a friend of mine in hopes that you will accept. I'm working on 140 Q&A and Lit., and I'm working on 180 J.C. I'm at a place where I need to know exactly what to do to stay on track. So far, so good though, since I've only been in school for a year and a half. Hey, if you have time, any advice you have to give, I'll welcome.

Hello, Michael... You did give a lot of good advice already, but what I would like to know is how long it took you to become a court reporter, and how did you study / practice the art of machine writing? Did you practice mostly fast dictations to gain speed or accuracy writing to gain speed, or an equal amount of both? What type of material did you use for practice, and what do you think was more beneficial? Do you find that you are you still teaching yourself how to write different things in new ways, or have you, for the most part, mastered your writing? What kept/keeps you so driven, positive, and balanced?
Thanks soooooo much for your time. I know you must be so busy.

Hi Michael, I am unfortunately not in the San Bernadino, but from San Jose. . . a little more north. But, I was born in San Bernadino, if that adds any kudos! Anyway, thanks for the compliment on my music. Where's yours? Elise
are you doing depos now, or in court?

Yeah, really am 50. . . actually 501/2 until July, at which time I will be officially 51!!! I am very active, and practice Brazilian Jui-Jitsu three times a week, and have been doing that for roughly six year. Know anything about that? Elise
ps get out to Miss much, my husband is Cajun.

Hello, Michael. How did you practice at 20 words faster? Did you learn and practice how to shorten things at that point, or did you just write, using your theory and briefs that you already knew trying to get as much as you could? I understand that I need to train myself to hear faster, but writing is another story. I'm working on it, but it's so frustrating! Ugh!