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Subject:Re: off topic?? In the job market again From:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> To:"John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>, "Hemstreet, Deborah" <DHemstreet -at- kaydon -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:39:02 -0400
> Let's see if we can salvage this as an appropriate topic, however,
> it's not going to be pretty response.
> > Living in an area where people ask what is "hi-tech", and working
for a company
> > that got its first computer ten years ago, I am thinking this might
be
> > the best forum to begin looking. (Monster revealed nothing within a
60
> > mile radius...)
> If I wanted to be a farmer, I wouldn't think of living on 83rd St in
> NYC, if I wanted to be a movie director, I wouldn't live in Idaho, and
> if I wanted to be a oilman, I wouldn't live in Maine.
> Doesn't being a technical writer come along with it the responsibility
> to go where the need is?
I ran into this very argument myself, many moons ago, but with a
different industry. The industry was publishing, specifically book
publishing. I was having no luck at all breaking into the business, but
I was living in Cincinnati, OH at the time. I was living with my future
wife and her parents. I ran into a book editor at an STC meeting out
there. I asked him about what I was doing wrong. He asked me why I
wasn't looking for work in Manhattan, which is the center of the
universe for book publishing. I said I didn't like New York and couldn't
stand crowds. I can handle both now. He looked me right in the eye and
said, "Then you don't really WANT to work in publishing badly enough,
then, do you?" No, I didn't. I found something else to do. Maybe
sometimes we have to physically go where the work is, then adapt enough
to survive.
-- Craig
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