Getting laid off as a part of the Great Caterpillar Layoff Deluge of 2008-2009 (tm) -- was a contract tech writer there -- may have been the best thing in the world for me.
I'm currently working at home for a company in another state, getting paid to do what I had at one time hated but am coming to embrace as my life's work -- technical writing. I enjoy it somewhat and I am considered very good at what I do, considering some of my colleagues' comments in previous jobs.
Yes, there are parts of my job I'd like to improve - but I don't think I'd want to go back where I was. Writing user assistance (help you get in an app when you press the F1 key) and software manuals is FUN to me. I'm hoping to branch into training and project management sometime too.
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Date: 2009-06-07 06:00 pm (UTC)I'm currently working at home for a company in another state, getting paid to do what I had at one time hated but am coming to embrace as my life's work -- technical writing. I enjoy it somewhat and I am considered very good at what I do, considering some of my colleagues' comments in previous jobs.
Yes, there are parts of my job I'd like to improve - but I don't think I'd want to go back where I was. Writing user assistance (help you get in an app when you press the F1 key) and software manuals is FUN to me. I'm hoping to branch into training and project management sometime too.