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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: "Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 06:27:45 -0800

> 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 also disagree with this statement. I had a boss early on in the software industry that taught me the opposite -- the tech writer should be the dumbest person on the team. That way, when the developers started talking geek-speak, you could stop them and say, "Huh? Can you explain that in English?"

I often call it my "the-emperor-has-no-clothes" method of interviewing.

Diane Evans
Technical Writer

Washington State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html



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