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Subject:Re: Where did you get your feet wet? From:"Damien Braniff" <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:34:18 +0100
Here in the UK there were, until fairly recently, no university courses
in TW and most TWers were engineers/programmers who could write. 20+
years ago I was a bit of an oddity as I went into writing directly from
university. Well, not quite directly - I spent almost a year being
under/over qualified for assorted jobs before applying to be a TWer.
Interview went OK (as far as I could tell) and they said they'd let me
know in about a week. 4+ weeks later I'd heard nothing and, ever so
slightly P***ed off, I wrote them a very sarcastic letter thanking them
for letting me know (I was young then!). They called next day to say I
was on a shortlist. Eventually got the job - turned out it was
government work and everyone needed clearance and, especially coming
form N Ireland, that took a little time :-)
20+ years later and I'm still writing. And, as was said in a previous
thread, clearance is useful - kept me in work for nearly 10 years doing
a variety of jobs.
Since then I've done an MA - looks good on applications, may tip the
balance where experience is similar and it was good to know I'd been
doing it right for all these year :-)
Damien
Damien Braniff | Technical Writer
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