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13 years ago
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Hi everyone! Been a while since I've posted a journal (I don't really consider my RAGE at FFXIII-3 a journal) so I figured it was finally time to make one. And I have something to talk about this time!
As the title implies, I got a new job! :) If you chat with me on messengers, you've probably heard about this already, but if not, here's some details. This is a career-type office job in Boston. I will be serving as a Junior Technical Writer for a small company in the city, doing whatever they tell me too. I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing, since it'll be highly project based and whatever the people in charge need. They told me a lot of it would be playing catch up, since the company didn't have any technical writers on staff at all until about 10 months ago. And Engineers don't exactly have the best organizational or writing skills, so a good chunk of my job will be attempting to organize all the stuff sitting on the drives. I think.
But yeah! It's a good job, good pay, and it's in the city. Which is both good and bad. I've wanted to get nearer the city for a while; I think I'll have more opportunities there and can finally branch out. I've lived in small town suburbia for a long time and it's time to get away. But, it also means that I get a lovely just under 2 hour commute one way! I'll be taking the train, so I'm hopefully going to be able to keep writing and whatnot, but I'm not sure how active I'll be on here once the job starts. Weekends and such I'll try to get on and stay up to date, but otherwise I probably won't be very active.
So, yeah. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. It'll be a huge lifestyle change, one that everyone has to make eventually. I feel very lucky to have found something in this economy.
Wish me luck.
PS. Persona 4: Arena. I NEEDZ IT.
As the title implies, I got a new job! :) If you chat with me on messengers, you've probably heard about this already, but if not, here's some details. This is a career-type office job in Boston. I will be serving as a Junior Technical Writer for a small company in the city, doing whatever they tell me too. I'm not entirely sure what I'll be doing, since it'll be highly project based and whatever the people in charge need. They told me a lot of it would be playing catch up, since the company didn't have any technical writers on staff at all until about 10 months ago. And Engineers don't exactly have the best organizational or writing skills, so a good chunk of my job will be attempting to organize all the stuff sitting on the drives. I think.
But yeah! It's a good job, good pay, and it's in the city. Which is both good and bad. I've wanted to get nearer the city for a while; I think I'll have more opportunities there and can finally branch out. I've lived in small town suburbia for a long time and it's time to get away. But, it also means that I get a lovely just under 2 hour commute one way! I'll be taking the train, so I'm hopefully going to be able to keep writing and whatnot, but I'm not sure how active I'll be on here once the job starts. Weekends and such I'll try to get on and stay up to date, but otherwise I probably won't be very active.
So, yeah. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. It'll be a huge lifestyle change, one that everyone has to make eventually. I feel very lucky to have found something in this economy.
Wish me luck.
PS. Persona 4: Arena. I NEEDZ IT.
How are things on your end?
You didn't mention the part about the engineers, so you likely will have a LOT of cleanup work to do. It is profoundly bad practice to have engineers (who designed a system) to write the documentation about that system, because when we're already very familiar with something, we tend to make assumptions and take things as given that a novice user would never know about. I'm glad they brought in some tech writers, and I hope that shows they know where the problems are.
Hey, job security! :)