Well, if a prospective employee could convince me he/she could produce
typing work at over 160 wpm (what the best voice-recognition software
can achieve) I think I'd be quite interested!

IMHO, this is one area in which people with RSI who were once keyboard
users have an advantage - especially if you were a keyboard user using
all the shortcut keys rather than a mousist. We won't have it for too
long, as people without RSI are going to want to start using it, but
it's a foot in the door, I should think, in a lot of situations.

Cannot your employment centre (PACT group perhaps?) or perhaps a typing
employment agency, arrange a "taster" session? If you then armed
yourself with some facts and figures from computer magazines, or perhaps
some personal testimonials from voicerecognition users, that might be a
way. The cost of buying the Professional version of
DragonNaturallySpeaking is about £350 - before my employees bought it
for me, I had bought a lower-grade version for £40 - but I did in fact
offer to pay off the cost week by week out of my own salary. You might
not want to do that, but it might persuade a sceptical prospective
employer how serious you were - and if he did take you up on your offer,
he couldn't lose, could he? Even if you left, he'd still have the
software installed on his machine.

Lots of luck!


Caelica wrote:
>
> i am currently trying to find a different type of job as in not a lot of
> typing but am having no luck, i have tried applying for other work but no
> one seems to want to employ me, i dont blame them though! if you had an
> applicant with RSI and one without with both the same qualifications which
> one would you choose?
>
>



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