Today court reporting students are being offered an option to their court reporting curriculum: a chance to "earn and learn." Text entry software has been developed for the latest PC Windows operating systems. Students are now being trained to use their shorthand machine as an input device for text entry versus using the QWERTY keyboard.

Students are finding employment as text entry operators while they are finishing court reporting school. Some of the students enjoy this market so much that they are choosing this as their career and have started their own text entry businesses. Students are finding out that for every job in court there are three jobs in the legal field and hundreds of jobs in Corporate America. With these opportunities students can use their skill, their shorthand machine and the latest information reporting software to input text entry in a multiplicity of different applications.

"Earn and learn" can be summarized as students using their developing reporting skills to do work for Corporate America, allowing them to increase their speed while also supplementing their income.