RE: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality

["Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <Madelyn -dot- Boudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>]

>Now, there is nothing wrong with writing specs for slot-machines. 
>However, I could tell this comment, and the way it was delivered, 
>had given the class that  stereotypical image - add "deadly dull" 
>to the list. I took every oppotunity I could to disabuse them of the 
>idea.  I think I succeeded.

Hardly any job anyone does for a living sounds exciting in a 1-sentence
statement. 
Even the ones that *sound* exciting rarely are.

This is why I don't tell people what I do for a living, I tell them what
I do for fun. 

Compare:
"I edit engineering documents," 
to 
"I am an announcer for a women's roller derby league, a goth club DJ, a
photographer, and an artist. To pay the mortgage I am a tech writer and
editor." 

As you can imagine, no one hears anything past the fun stuff, and I
never have to talk about work. (Even during my recent interview process,
I spent a lot of time talking about roller derby. That I'm the league's
graphic and web designer, and I write a lot of their copy, didn't hurt.)

Work to live, don't live to work! 

- Madelyn
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