oh, for pete's sake

[amelia_petkova]

Once again, a temp position has ended earlier than it was supposed to (not because of anything I did but it's over all the same). Back to writing, the Career Job Hunt, and fretting about the bills while they find another position for me.

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[hasufin.livejournal.com]

That sucks.

Hm. Are you qualified to take work as a technical writer?

[amelia-petkova.livejournal.com]

Probably not. My writing skills are excellent but I'm not knowledgeable enough in any of the sciences or technologies. I was only planning on staying a couple more months until my lease expires; then the plan was to return home to my parents' and probably continue temping while still working on the library job hunt. Hopefully my agency will come up with something short-term soon but I may look into getting out of my lease early if I can do it without having to pay the last bit of rent.

[hasufin.livejournal.com]

Darn.

Tech writing is where I've seen a lot of folks turn their liberal arts degrees into lucrative careers - maybe not where most folks with English degrees thought they'd end up, sure, but it's not bad work and the pay beats most.
It's really not about the science and tech. I'm an oddity in the field for having come from a tech background into writing; it's much harder to teach an engineer to communicate than to teach a writer about computers.

Let me know if you decide to give it a go. I have a few contacts and might be able to help out.