User:AmpedToGo

Now retired, I decided to contribute to Wikipedia as time allows. In my youth, I earned money for college by working as a proofreader for a publisher of paid newsletters covering industry regulators and evolving regulations. For readers who are younger than 40, the job of a proofreader was to manually find and correct mistakes in grammar, spelling, or style before computers could be programmed to do these things. The job required some measure of diplomacy in persuading authors or editors to accept changes.