Bone-headed question?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

David Loveless wondered: <<I'm finally graduating from college and 
entering that lone and terrible world known as "the real world.">>

Happens to the best of us. Even Zonker Harris eventually succumbed. Any 
chance you can go back for two or three post-grad degrees and a 
post-doc? Maybe by then we'll have moved into a post-work society... 
<g>

<<So my question is this: I've been everywhere from the highest 
mountain to the lowest valley searching for technical writing jobs and 
while I find a good number on various sites (LinkedIn, Monster, Yahoo 
Jobs, and the local chapter of the STC in particular), I haven't found 
too many positions that match my liking. Any thoughts on a good tech 
writer job search engine?>>

Yup. Best search engine in existence: the human brain. Not being 
facetious here. It's a truism that the best jobs are unadvertised, so 
do some looking for companies that might need your services. For 
example, look for people hiring engineers and developers. If they're 
hiring people to produce new products, someone has to document them, 
and that someone could be you. In your cover letter, point out that 
they're hiring these guys to develop, not to write, and suggest that it 
would be more cost-effective to hire you to do the writing. (Not just 
blowing smoke here. Got my first job with IBM that way.)

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