<div style="text-align: justify;">I am a 52-year-old single mom with a 14-year-old son, struggling to break the bonds of near poverty. &nbsp; What I desire most in life is sovreignty, my own home, and the security of knowing that my son and I have a place of our own that we know will be there for us to lay our heads down at night, no matter what. &nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Pre-2000, which is when I got married for the first time, I was a radiology transcriptionist for over 20 years. &nbsp;I was working for a temporary service in Atlanta, Manpower, and I was sent to Emory Hospital as a transcriptionist because I passed a written test. &nbsp;I was sent to the Radiology Department and soon was offered a permanant job, and remained at Emory for eight years. &nbsp;At the time I knew nothing of transcription but I faked it well enough to convince my supervisors I knew what I was doing and taught myself using only Dorland's dictionary. &nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Transcription was good to me for many years, and I lived a comfortable life, especially for a girl with only a high school education. After a time I left Emory to work for Peachtree Transcription, a company that contracted most of the Radiology transcription for the hospitals in the Atlanta area. &nbsp;I have trained many green transcriptionists from scratch who also became top-notch, successful workers. &nbsp;I was an independent contractor working from home on a production basis. &nbsp;I left transcription when I got married and here in 2016, voice recognition has all but replaced transcription jobs. &nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The foundation for my talent began as a love of reading, books of any kind become my escape into other worlds. &nbsp;This, combined with an excellent education from a private school in Stone Mountain, Georgia, gave me an above-average mastery of grammar and punctuation. &nbsp;It has been 16 years since I have worked as a transcriptionist so I may be a bit rusty, but grammar and punctuation and creative writing comes as naturally to me as breathing. &nbsp;I recently attended a technical college here in Georgia (Georgia Northwestern Technical College,) and upon registration I scored 99% on the English placement exam.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Thank you for your consideration,</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Cynthia Kruzich</div>