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Linda, that's what I always say: "I want to keep learning and growing in
my field, and maybe publish if I have time."
I like "ooo shiney" too! That's a Browncoat expression :-D for those of
us who really like Serenity.
Diana Ost
Technical Writer/Production Administration
Market Street Mortgage Corporation
diana -dot- ost -at- msmcorp -dot- com
Phone (727) 431-7209
Fax (727) 724-9096
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Clearwater, Florida 33759
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To: Ron Hearn
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Subject: RE: Conducting Telephone Interviews
Ron Hearn wrote on 05/16/2006 02:45:05 PM:
> Yeah I hate that question. You know the interviewer has a preferred
> reply, the trick is to get it right. If you respond that you see
> yourself doing something outside TC, they might think you won't stick
> around that long. If you say you see yourself doing pretty much what
> you do when you start job, it looks like you have no ambition or
> desire for growth. Definitely a minefield.
>
> Ron
I hate that question, too.
I have no, none, ZILCH, interest in moving out of the tech writing field
or even out of being a tech writer with no
managerial/supervisory/project lead responsibilities. I'm _happy_ as a
tech writer. My only "ambition" or "desire for growth" lays in learning
more: learning more about the things I'm documenting; learning more new
things that I (may) then document; and learning more new tools and new
ways of doing things (which I may or may not use to document something;
I have a strong tropism towards ooo!
shiney!).
I'll probably be dealing with this question again all too soon, too, as
the contract I'm on is scheduled to run out at the end of June. *sigh*
Lin Sims
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