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Saturday afternoon I took a short course titled "Become a Copyeditor or Proofreader." Amusing factoid: the guy who spoke to us is the person responsible for Hershey's Syrup spelling "recipe" correctly on their bottles. I knew there were rare other people who'd notice such a thing, but it was validating to meet a guy who writes to companies and gets such mistakes corrected!
As for my fellow students, I have never seen so much anal-retentiveness gathered in one room. Wow. I had found my tribe!
I was a little disappointed that no one there, including the speaker, could spell better than I could. :-)
I'm sure I could make a living at this if I spent a bit of time building up a resume and a portfolio. It won't pay what embedded OS work pays, of course, but if I went freelance it would be a fine supplemental job. I haven't yet decided to commit to it. I'm mulling it over.
As for my fellow students, I have never seen so much anal-retentiveness gathered in one room. Wow. I had found my tribe!
I was a little disappointed that no one there, including the speaker, could spell better than I could. :-)
I'm sure I could make a living at this if I spent a bit of time building up a resume and a portfolio. It won't pay what embedded OS work pays, of course, but if I went freelance it would be a fine supplemental job. I haven't yet decided to commit to it. I'm mulling it over.
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a friend who's a professional proofreader says that for some people, including her, spelling and grammar mistakes practically leap out of the page. Almost like they were highlighted already.
Yes! That's exactly how I feel about it. I have always attributed that to my voracious reading. If I've seen a particular thing 50,000 times done correctly, and only twice have I seen it wrong, the wrong ones will jump out. I suspect it's harder to build that neural net today. Errors are much more common than they once were (at least in some forms of print).