When I joined WA in late November of 2018, I had every intention of jumping right into the training and progressing through it in record time. I had just lost my State job, my husband's job was ending in December, and we weren't going to have health insurance or income to begin 2019. Things were quite bleak. I went through the first few lessons of Level 1, and then life got in the way. As a freelance court reporter, getting work from larger court reporting firms had to be my primary focus.