Re: anyone else in the same boat?

[Richard Yanowitz <ryanowitz -at- bigfoot -dot- com>]

The context of your question poses mysteries about the company that hired 
you.  Do your employers fully understand how inexperienced you are?  If so, 
before they hired you what did they say they were expecting?  How did you 
and they discuss fulfilling requirements such as you're now facing?  Do 
they think that somehow what you need to learn and do is simple?  Do they 
perhaps not really care if your work lacks polish--do they merely need 
documents (or whatever it is they expect from you) for auditing 
purposes?  Is it that you bring technical expertise they want, and they 
think that related writing will be easy?  Do you have some other kind of 
writing background that they or you think can readily be adapted to their 
needs?

It sounds very strange that they'd hire you without plans for giving you 
the support you obviously need.

If somehow they require very little from you, you might be able to learn as 
you go given some support, maybe training classes, maybe books.  But you 
may well be in over your head; your situation may be setting you up for 
failure.  Regardless of what your company wants or thinks it wants, I'd 
think about whether you're doing yourself any favors here or should get out 
before you damage yourself.


At 03:41 PM 12/21/00, Jonathan Soukup wrote: