ow. my. eyes.
Mar. 12th, 2004 04:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thejunipertreeI was offered a freelance type of job by a friend of mine to proof read a copy of the white pages (yes, as in the telephone directory) on a project he'd been hired for. Ten dollars an hour, work from home kind of deal. He gives me the pages and I go through them, line by line, and pick out mistakes (of which there are many).
I, in my infinite wisdom, accepted.
It's day four/five and my eyes are BURNING. Tiny black type, numbers and letters all blurring into each other. What makes it extra special fun is that the program he used to scan in pages of an existing directory swapped some letters and numbers. Like inserting S instead of 5, along those lines.
After five or so hours of doing this, I'M swapping numbers and letters and it makes SO MUCH MORE FUN.
I've been at this all week and I'm only on the end part of the B section. 25 pages or so. Go me.
In much happier news, I have a job interview tomorrow at AN EXTRA SPECIAL PLACE WHICH IS A SECRET FOR NOW.
Hrrm. There's a lot of all capital letters typing in this entry.
I must be feeling shouty again.
I, in my infinite wisdom, accepted.
It's day four/five and my eyes are BURNING. Tiny black type, numbers and letters all blurring into each other. What makes it extra special fun is that the program he used to scan in pages of an existing directory swapped some letters and numbers. Like inserting S instead of 5, along those lines.
After five or so hours of doing this, I'M swapping numbers and letters and it makes SO MUCH MORE FUN.
I've been at this all week and I'm only on the end part of the B section. 25 pages or so. Go me.
In much happier news, I have a job interview tomorrow at AN EXTRA SPECIAL PLACE WHICH IS A SECRET FOR NOW.
Hrrm. There's a lot of all capital letters typing in this entry.
I must be feeling shouty again.
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Date: 2004-03-12 02:34 am (UTC)Go to one of those $2 stores (or your local equivalent thereof) and purchase a page magnifier. You know, plastic A4 magnifying "glass", used by elderly people to help them read.
It will rapidly decrease eye strain... And keep your room well lit.
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Date: 2004-03-12 09:24 am (UTC)It's worth a shot, at any rate. Thanks!
proof reading
Date: 2004-03-12 05:37 am (UTC)Then, open this in your Word processor package and run a spell-check first to clear up the S/5 controversies etc.
Then, visually read through on-screen, where you can zoom the text!
Job done!
Re: proof reading
Date: 2004-03-12 09:21 am (UTC)It's actually much easier to do it on paper, unfortunately. :/
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Date: 2004-03-12 07:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-12 09:23 am (UTC)It's an office and a submarine!
Date: 2004-03-12 09:36 am (UTC)P.S. You'd better get the job, otherwise I'll be forced to hire you as my sysadmin. And I've been told you'll have to work on crappy Solaris systems.
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Date: 2004-03-12 07:44 am (UTC)hehehehehe
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Date: 2004-03-12 09:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-12 08:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-12 09:25 am (UTC)This is so much like something I would say, that it is cracking me up unbearably. hee!
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Date: 2004-03-12 09:46 am (UTC)