I thought I have planned well. I thought everything has been taken care of. I thought I didn't have to bother about preparing the interview transcripts, but as a saying like this -"always expect the unexpected"- is something that I cannot avoid. As I read my initial transcripts prepared by my so-called RA, I noticed a lot of errors - more than 60% error. So, I had to re-do the whole transcripts so that I can prepare my interview data for analysis. So, it took me about 4 months to prepare my interview transcripts.
The Good - I managed to immerse myself in the richness of my interview data. I know everything about my interviewees - their personal background, the professional involvement in counselling, their perceptions and experiences regarding multicultural counselling, their challenging cases, their ways of doing counselling with culturally different clients, their barriers and challenges in the practice of counselling, and their tips and recommendations. I know and I can memorise their lines - any useful and interesting quotes. So, although it was a daunting experience for me when trying to revise the whole transcripts (revise = re-do the whole thing), I treasure the moment and the challenges. at least I know how does it felt when preparing transcripts for qualitative data analysuis. It's totally suck!
The Bad - I hate doing interview transcripts! No more doing transcripts after this PhD. No more! It was such a time-consuming task! It delayed my 'constructive' work because I had to listen to the audio.digital recording and type. Such a boring routine. I truly madly deeply hate the whole process of preparing the interview transcripts!
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