Re: Employment Advice needed!

["Lisa A. Roth" <roth -dot- lisa -at- jimmy -dot- harvard -dot- edu>]

I haven't read the entire thread, so forgive me if I am repeating what 
has already been said...

Perhaps a good place to start would be volunteering to do some writing 
for an cause that interests you or by taking a job at a non-profit 
organization.

Even if your eventual goal is to do full-time technical communication of 
one sort or the other, you'd very likely find that if you got into a 
non-profit in a different type of position, people would almost 
certainly be eager to give you a chance to do some extra projects 
documenting important issues at the organization. From my experience, 
when budgets and personnel are hard to come by, if one is willing to 
undertake a special project, people are generally glad to allow it.  Who 
knows -- maybe you could develop knowledge of creating Web pages and 
other things that might help make you more competitive in the 
private-sector job market later.

It might not bring you immediate fame and fortune, but it just might be 
a good place to start!

Good luck



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