The court reporting profession has been around for a long time, and the opportunities for these highly trained professionals continue to grow. While most think of a court reporter as the person who reports legal proceedings in the courtroom, there are many other fields that require the expertise of a court reporter. Besides CART (computer-aided real-time reporting, also known as communication access real-time reporting), real-time captioning, freelance reporting and official reporting, court reporters also work in the arena of convention reporting, where they report the meetings and seminars for various state and national conventions. Another field where court reporters are in high demand is congressional reporting, where they work in state legislatures, the halls of Congress, and even the United Nations. While there are many different fields of court reporting, they all begin with the same educational requirements, which include two to four years of post-high school education from an accredited court reporting program. There are currently 69 nationally accredited colleges and business schools in 29 states and Canada that offer training in this unique profession. This document contains brief personal accounts of the different types of court reporting.