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Subject:Re: anyone else in the same boat? From:"Jonathan Soukup" <JSoukup -at- at-track -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:41:18 -0600
>>> <train2 -at- sprynet -dot- com> 12/21/00 07:31AM >>>
I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this:
I was recently hired by a company as a tech writer....
I have no previous experience and this company has no previous experience with an in-house writer. Anything they needed done was out-sourced to consultants.
Now, it is my job to figure everything out. They dont really know what to tell me, other than what they do.
I have no idea where to start. I'm a stranger in a semi-strange land (just because of all the studying I did). Anyone have any advice??
Just go with it, chances are you'll make supervisor by the end of next year and have half a dozen writers under your thumb.
-Jonathan Soukup
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