Court Reporting
The Best Kept Career Secret!

So someone has suggested you become a court reporter, and you're thinking ….
A WHAT?   What do they do?

Court reporters are highly trained professionals who take down and transcribe testimony in legal proceedings or who provide captioning services on television or in college classrooms.

And you want to do that, WHY?    WELL…….Let's see.

Court reporters earn between $60,000 to $150,000 a year!      NICE!

Most court reporters work for themselves as independent contractors, and that means no more pain in the …........ bosses.          YES!

There is a nationwide shortage, which means you will be working as a court reporter the day you graduate and not in some meaningless dead-end job you had to take to pay the bills while you waited for the umpteenth rejection letter from your umpteenth resume.
TAKE THAT, COLLEGE GRAD!

Court reporters set their own schedule and get to work on new cases every day.  Of course, you may like working at the same "boring" job ever day, looking at the same sorry faces, and listening to the same sob stories day after day after day.  OMG!  GGOH!

You can train to be a professional court reporter in about two years and at a cost that is usually less than one year at many universities.    SWEET!

Or maybe you want to be a member of a highly-paid, elite profession doing something which very few people can do; translate the spoken word at 225 words per minute or faster using your skill, a stenographic keyboard and a laptop .    VERY COOL!

Want to know more?  Google it, or for a more personal touch, call a court reporting agency in your area and ask to speak to a reporter. See what they have to say about the best career you've never heard of.  They love to share.

I guarantee you'll be hard pressed to find to a court reporter who doesn't love their job, and maybe that is the most important thing to look for in a career.

Editorial content provided by: Jonathan Freeman, CRI, New England Court Reporting Institute.