RE: BS-ing your way into a Tech Writing job (was: The Tech Writin g World)

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

David...I don't know about you, but my bank doesn't accept fresh air.

I'm not advocating lying. However, not knowing how to do something and not
being able to pick it up, and not knowing something but knowing that when it
comes to know it, you will, are two different things.

I say get the job if you can even if you don't know how to do what they want
but know you can learn it.

Being and staying employed is not a pastime and not to be taken lightly.
Know your limits, but know your capabilities. Don't accept a position based
on your limits, but based on your capabilities.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
212-414-6656
icq: 178047452
aim: jposada1
  "When you only have two minutes to do 
  something that takes three, wait until you have three"
 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Castro [mailto:thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com]

I actually had an interviewer lament that she couldn't hire me. She said
that I
was a "breath of fresh air," because I was so obviously honest. At least one

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