Re: Question to ask

Subject: Re: Question to ask
From: "Martin Page" <mpage -at- csl -dot- co -dot- uk>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:23:08 +0100


This suggest another one - is there a polite way of asking, "Are you
solvent?"

M

<dan -dot- gallagher -at- pulsartech -dot- com> wrote in message news:171945 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
>
> Hi Folks,
> I'm glad I found this list. I've only been a tech writer for 3 years since
> I took this job. I didn't know the software, but had electronics
background
> so.....
>
> Regarding what to ask an interviewer, all the suggestions I've seen are
> excellent but one is missing. The question that seems to have clinched it
> for me was "How do you generate sales and what're your long term goals for
> this company". This made it obvious to the company owners, that I was
> interested in the long term and didn't want to join a Fly-By-Night
company.
> Everything else you all mentioned like software, hardware, keyboards,
mice,
> lunches etc. can come later. Heck they were using Quark on a PC here which
> is far from optimum. I've just convinced my boss to get me a Powermac G4.
> So I think tools, environment etc. are secondary to where the company's
> headed and it's stability. That to me was primary.
>
> Thank you all for the great information. I'm gleaning a lot. "Read" you
> later.
>
> Dan Gallagher--Ft. Lauderdale
>
> Sean--You should like this one;
> The oaks can't help their feeling, because they like the way they're made,
> and they wonder why the maples can't be happy in their shade.
> So the trees were all kept equal, by hatchet, axe and saw......
>
> Long live Peart!
>
>
>




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