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Re: BS-ing your way into a Tech Writing job (was: The Tech Writing World)
Subject:Re: BS-ing your way into a Tech Writing job (was: The Tech Writing World) From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:07:13 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 05:47:42 -0800 (PST), "Craig
Cardimon" wrote:
>
>
> I was talking to an ex-manager of mine about job
> hunting. He told me I am
> too honest and I had to learn to Bull S**t. He said he
> landed and held every
> job he ever got by BS-ing his way in. Act like you
know
> what you're doing
> and then fake it until you do know it.
I wonder if that's how technical writers got a bad
reputation.
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