Trusty Transcriptionists has been in business for 9 years!

Trusty Transcriptionists is celebrating 9 years in business! It seems very difficult to comprehend that this much time has passed since I began this venture essentially on a whim. I want to thank all of my clients past and present for supporting me during this time, you have all contributed to the success of my transcription services business. As alluded to previously things have changed considerably since the pandemic. AI has certainly come along leaps and bounds which has impacted me greatly. I still have clients, especially in the Human Resources field who say to me that they are grateful when I am available to transcribe their meetings as it far exceeds the transcript generated by voice recognition, I hope that continues to be the case but I cannot stick my head in the sand. I have been aware for years that this time would eventually come and I find myself more or less working part-time these days because there is simply not enough demand for my services anymore. This is a natural progression in life and while I am sad, I have also accepted this, change is inevitable in life and I do need new challenges. I do intend to keep the business going for the foreseeable future whilst turning my hand part-time to other things. To celebrate my ninth anniversary I have rewound my already very affordable prices for all one-to-one academic interviews. These rates are what I was offering in the first few years of transcribing academic interviews.

Lately, a lot of my work has centred around either Human Resources interview transcription or transcribing PACE interviews for various councils across England. If you require this sort of transcript you will be pleased with what I can produce for you. This is an area in which I have much experience and my initial training came from five years working for the Police transcribing taped interviews (with cassettes!)

The extra time I’ve had on my hands for the past few months has been spent wisely. I’ve been doing some volunteer administration work for an LGTBQI+ organisation that promotes equality in sports. I always find nonpaid work a very rewarding and nourishing way to soothe the soul. I envision myself in my retirement years (will there be such a thing?) volunteering for a myriad of organisations, there are so many that I support and feel an affinity with. My local fitness centre still offers dance fitness and Zumba classes which I still enjoy immensely, the jury is out on whether or not I’ve improved in these classes! They also started offering Tai Chi this year, which I love, I can get absorbed in it and the hour passes in what feels like minutes. I’ve also been doing some self-directed group therapy to address some losses from my past. This has been a painful but healing process and I find myself at the happiest I have been since I was a child. I’m continuing my Spanish on Duolingo, this is a very long journey and I need to apply myself more to accelerate the pace. But it was very satisfying when I was recently in Spain and several people told me how great my accent was and that I was very good at speaking Spanish! They were probably being kind but I’ll take the compliment!

Please send me a message if you would like to book to have your digitally recorded interviews transcribed.
Best wishes,
Kim

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