RE: Internships (was: Breaking into the tech writing job market)

[Paul Hanson <PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com>]

Went to college to be a high school English teacher, did student teaching my
senior year, hated it, decided to go into something (ANYTHING) else. Got a
low paying job 3 years after graduation. Worked with a great mentor that
taught me a lot about my own writing and instilled some natural tendencies
in how I write that I still have today. The rest of the story is I left that
job after 3 years to work at another company b/c 1) increase in $ and 2) it
was for Windows-based software. Then came here when that company had
difficulty meeting payroll. I've been here 8 years on 10/1.   


Paul Hanson
Technical Writer
Adobe Community Expert - RoboHelp
http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia/team_members/200.ht
ml
Quintrex Data Systems 
http://www.quintrex.com
-----Original Message-----
From:  Jones, Donna

I think this calls for an informal poll: 

- How many of you who actually started out wanting to be a tech writer began
as a tech writing intern?
- How many of you who started out as something else were interns?
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