Re: ramblings

[Nina Barzgaran <nina -dot- barzgaran -at- barzgaran -dot- at>]

I love this list too. :) Love to exchange experience or actual knowledge 
as well.

As regards our profession and my own way into it: I loved reading and 
writing ever since I can remember. I learned to read when I was four 
years old. I've read books in the amount of a mid-sized library. Partly 
replacing bullies in the neighbourhood with them in those early years. 
;)

To this day, all those books that were later complemented with my 
studies of literature and culture stand me in good stead when writing. 
Like just so many 'templates'...

I've worked for quite a number of companies and also multiple places and 
departments of the German university I attended until I finally got my 
M.A. degree. It was a long and thorny road since I had to work for a 
living, while raising my child and working with limited contracts - 
sometimes three part-time positions in parallel.
I think few people can 'boast' to have 21 certificates and job 
references to their name... (-âââ)

There's _little_ in the way of human or indeed corporate behaviour, you 
might say, the behaviour found in work places, that is strange to me.
Humans - and bosses, for that matter - seem to be a lot alike in most 
places around the world - with some spicy cultural extras thrown in. I 
always am happy when people are friendly or even kind. Because I feel 
that it's not a matter of course that they would.

Highlights: I worked for a small radio broadcasting company for close on 
two years on and off, where we were taught radio scripting and writing 
for news 'from the ground up'. Loved the experience! But came to realize 
that such scripting involved writing simply and to my mind getting 
things rather entertaining than anything else, simply summarized. That's 
why I went on to work as online-editor and finally found my way into 
what I call "texts and technology" - technical writing.

Well, that's as short I can make it just now - over here it's very early 
morning...  these days looking forward to uninterrupted sleep again.. 
(âââ)

I think regarding our work for and in a company the business use case 
should be tried to made clear to ramp up the standing of the technical 
writer(s): What kind of revenue is connected to our work? In short:
What are the numbers they earn in terms of money - or would loose by not 
having that work...

Have a fine day (or night) ahead!

Nina

Am 22.02.2023 00:20, schrieb David Castro: