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gabi posted:drat, that sucks. I had just written my first set of articles for him before this happened, it was pretty much the perfect thing to supplement my tip-based day job. I'm super bummed too! I just quit my main job and unexpectedly have to wait another couple of weeks for my new job, so I was looking forward to this being a source of income in the interim. But I'm really glad that he's going to be starting a new project; hopefully the new one will be more fruitful for him (and us) than this one was. 
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Alright, I'm finally taking the DT test. Holy hell, this is taking forever. I've been working at it for 20 minutes and have only transcribed 2 minutes of this garbled video they gave me.  So here's my question: the video has timecodes already in it. Am I supposed to be writing down those timecodes, or the timecodes that Express Scribe is giving me in the bottom right hand corner? The DT instructions say "DO NOT use play time or running time for timecodes." So does that mean I'm supposed to use the timecodes that are on the video itself, even though those timecodes say that what I'm transcribing is like 9 minutes into the video?
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Feb 22, 2013 04:34
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How nitpicky is DT about the test? That is, will they not allow someone to pass on the grounds that they forgot to record a couple of "um"s or similar tiny details? Or is it generally more like, "you utilized the correct format and accurately recorded the correct words with very few inaudibles, so you've passed"?
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Feb 25, 2013 21:54
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Anything that's not related to the topic of the interview is [NON-INTERVIEW], right? Because I'm working on a file right now where the first several minutes involves the interviewer going over legal stuff with the interviewee (like "here's a consent form, just so you know this interview is voluntary and so you are welcome to refuse any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering," blah blah blah.) The actual interview is about some things related to a high school, so does that mean that the legal stuff in the beginning can be classified as "non-interview"? I'm assuming yes, but I would rather make sure with you guys than go ahead and discount all of that stuff as non-interview and wind up not transcribing something that I should have. 
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May 7, 2013 06:23
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If I want to turn down a particular DT job because I won't be able to complete it by the deadline, do I need to email them saying so? I always email them a confirmation that I have received the files that they send me to transcribe, which usually says something like, "I have received file #1234 and I will be able to complete it by the deadline." To turn something down, should I email them just saying "I am unable to complete file #1234 by the deadline"?
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May 11, 2013 03:42
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If I got "fired" from DT would they tell me, or just stop sending me assignments? Recently I turned down two assignments in two separate emails and I guess they didn't receive one of the emails, because they emailed me a couple days later saying "where is this assignment, it's past the deadline, you need to send it to us right now." I responded really politely and apologetically and told them that I had turned down that assignment and they said that they never got an email from me, and seemed skeptical that I'd ever even sent one. Then they gave me poo poo because I was "just now telling them" and it was way too late for them to reassign it, etc. This was like a week ago and I haven't heard from them since. Is there a chance they cut me off?
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Jun 8, 2013 18:04
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Huh, so I got an email just now saying that DT will no longer be needing my services. That sucks considering that all of the trouble was over a technological error/misunderstanding. Should I try for Focus Forward?
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Jun 11, 2013 04:39
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Are About.com's standards for accepting guides super high? I submitted an application to be a guide with them a few weeks ago which included a really strong sample article that I wrote specifically for them, and my qualifications, which they asked me about, include a degree in the exact field they're looking for as well as several years of experience working in that field. I also have some professional writing experience, which I mentioned to them. Yesterday I got an email saying they rejected my application.  I'm really bummed out because I worked pretty hard on the application and I figured that my degree and experience would make me a shoe-in. What do they want from their guides, exactly? They said I can apply again; I was thinking of submitting an application for a related field, but I want to know what it is they're looking for first before I put in all that time and effort again.
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Oct 15, 2013 20:20
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Someone else in here mentioned that they started transcribing porn. I started an ongoing porn transcription gig a couple of weeks ago and it's pretty hilarious but Jesus it's somehow so incredibly dull. Right now I'm working on a BDSM orgy starring five guys, and all of them feel the need to say variations on "oh gently caress yes" constantly and at the same time as one another. All of these are 90 minutes long and thankfully they go relatively quick because of the minimal dialogue, but I hadn't anticipated how mind-numbing it would be to sit here and make note of every time someone says "oh yes."
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Nov 2, 2013 03:15
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Astro7x posted:why would anybody need porn transcribed? That's exactly what I said! These are feature-length, already-edited films and I have a character limit per line so I'm fairly certain it's for closed captioning. But even still, what?!
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