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RE: What job did you have before you became a technical communica tor?
Subject:RE: What job did you have before you became a technical communica tor? From:"Westbrook,Beth" <beth -dot- westbrook -at- dhs -dot- state -dot- tx -dot- us> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:52:49 -0600
Just to be difficult, I'll answer the second part first. I got into tech
comm because I've always loved writing and technology. It seemed like a nice
combination of the two. It also sounded easier than the other stuff I had
done.
Pre-TC jobs:
*Retail inventory audit team lead (those people with the calculators on
their hips at the grocery store)
*Data entry at a couple newspapers, covering the race results from Oaklawn
Downs
*Cleaning a chicken plant on the graveyard shift
*Assembling automotive tensioners (the spring-loaded pulley devise that
keeps a serpentine belt tightened)
*A series of temp jobs, including filling sandbags at a sewage pond, mover,
cleaning milk crates, working at an electroplating plant, washing dishes
*"Throwing dough" in a tortilla bakery (feeding huge chunks of raw dough
into the machine that balled up the portions to be flattened into tortillas)
*Acting, singing, and dancing in a play for new student orientation at UofA
*Dorm security guard
*Stocker/bagger at a grocery store
*Putting handlebars on chainsaws at the Poulan/Weedeater plant where my
mother worked (started three days after HS graduation)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Abel [mailto:abelsp -at- netdirect -dot- net]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: What job did you have before you became a technical
> communicator?
>
> If you had another career before you became a technical
> communicator, what
> was it and why did you decide to pursue technical communication?
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