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RE: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career?
Subject:RE: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career? From:James Leatherwood <JLeatherwood -at- aflac -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:14:12 -0500
Ah, the joys of Digest reading!
I've been privileged to work with some great tech and great people. Hands down, the best job I ever had was working at a B2B PR agency. In the course of about 5 years, I got to write trade magazine articles on all kinds of fun stuff.
My most creative work was on the launch of home automation hardware for a connector company - visiting multi-million dollar homes, spending time in the lab with the engineers, learning about the current state of the art - then putting together everything from model-home display sheets to technical articles for "prosumer" and trade pubs, including directing photo shoots on-site at some pretty amazing houses.
A close second was being a journalist on an aircraft carrier and putting together daily newspapers and a nightly news TV show, along with writing releases about what the sailors were doing. It was great to be able to grab a camera, knock on any door in the ship, and ask someone to tell me what they did for a living, then write it up and send it off to their hometown paper or various Navy publications. The payoff was also the most rewarding: when the subject of an article would bring me a clipping from the paper that his mom sent him.
James Leatherwood
Tel: 706.596.3429
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From: Janoff, Steven [mailto:Steven -dot- Janoff -at- ga -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:20 PM
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Subject: What's the most fun/creative project you've ever worked on in your career?
Robert's question and Ken Stitzel's answer made me ask this. :)
Working on my own answer.
Happy Friday. :)
Steve
(landed on my feet, I guess)
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