Paula Davis-Amato:
CLASS OF 1979
North High SchoolClass of 1979
Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield High SchoolClass of 1979
Bakersfield, CA
Our Lady of Good Counsel Elementary SchoolClass of 1967
Newark, NJ
Paula's Story
Life
I have had incredible adventures since leaving high school. I have lived and worked in 30 of our great United States, and I plan to travel and visit the remaining 20 states over the next four or five years.
Traveling has become one of my greatest joys. I have also traveled extensively in China, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, and Mexico. At this time, I am planning a trip to Indonesia, Lebanon, and Russia before the year's end.
After high school, I ran off to Las Vegas to be a blackjack dealer--what a blast. I then worked as an educator and national retail manager for a large cosmetics company; this was where I got my traveling fix.
After I grew up in 1995-hahaha, I went to court reporting school.
I now work as a real-time captionist for UCLA, USC, UCI, UCSB, Chapman University, and two c...Expand for more
ommunity colleges in the So. Cal. area. I use my court reporting skills to aid deaf students attending these schools. I go to classes with my deaf students; and using a funny machine called a stenograph, I write every word spoken in the class. I supply my students with a laptop that is connected to my stenograph machine; this laptop displays in realtime what is being said. (I can write in excess of 200 words per minute.) This affords the deaf students equal access to the teachings of a hearing class.
This work is the most wonderful thing I have ever done; in fact, I even hate to call it work because it is so much fun. I adore my students, and they are very intelligent. I am currently working with future doctors, microbiologists, physicists, and attorneys, and I am very proud of them.
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