This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
It sounded pretty good. For less than $20 a month, I’d get legal advice. I thought Pre-Paid Legal was a great idea, especially since I work mostly on a contractual basis. Plus the PPL representative, a person who works within the captioning industry,[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Within the past year, we’ve lost several deaf community members: Jerry Strom, Frank B. Sullivan, Sharon Kay Wood, Polly Peikoff, and Clayton Valli, to name a few. A deaf person’s death always seems to affect me directly, even if I didn’t quite know[.....]
This originally in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I’ve gotten a free round-trip ticket, six coupons for free meals at Wendy’s, and a $20 gift certificate for Old Navy, simply because I wrote letters.
Oftentimes an ignorant worker does something stupid because he doesn’t know how to deal with a deaf person[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
The recent publicity about a captioner screwing up a television report about Federal Reserve Board Chairperson Alan Greenspan’s enlarged prostate when she mistakenly typed “enlarged prostitute” got me thinking about the captioning industry and its job opportunities.
How come I don’t know of[.....]