Re: What's A TW Got To DO To Get A Job Around Here?!

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>]

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From: "Kelley" <kwalker2 -at- gte -dot- net>

> Like Dick,

You meant Tom, right?

Writing concise posts certainly has its drawbacks. Readers tend to read into
a post what is not there.

While I appreciate all your good intentions, very little of the response so
far has addressed what impelled me to write in the first place: There are NO
jobs here. But perhaps you simply dismiss that and don't believe me. My post
dealt with the fact that there ARE no jobs here. There IS no job market
here. The issue I face is: MOVE or NO MOVE.


For the record, therefore:

- I'm not giving up.
- I don't value myself by what I do/did for a living.
- I apply for all jobs that I would like to have, including those for which
I am "not qualified".
- There are no jobs here.



There are probably thousands of technical writers here without jobs. The
market has been terrible for more than a year.

Maybe things will pick up here. But the entire purpose of my writing to the
list was to explore the idea of moving. Microsoft needs editors in Seattle.
Many places need writers in DC and Virginia. Should I wait for the Boston
economy to turn around, or should I begin planning to leave?

*That* is my question, and with all due respect to your kind intentions, I
do not need to learn job-hunting strategies. Unless Marguerite Krupp writes
and says that I'm full of it...that is. If she does, LOL, then I may think
about changing my position.

In this economy, approaching a company is -- in my judgment -- the wrong
thing to do. With so many technical writers out of work for so long, I think
that even an effort to meet with people would be rebuffed.

I don't know. Maybe I *am* depressed.

Bonnie Granat
bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info
http://www.editors-writers.info








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