Comments on: Let your ideas ripen https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/06/let-your-ideas-ripen/ Writer, Author, Speaker Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Laura Vanderkam https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/06/let-your-ideas-ripen/#comment-509701 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:25:18 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19590#comment-509701 In reply to Barb.

@Barb – that is great career advice!

]]> By: Barb https://lauravanderkam.com/2024/06/let-your-ideas-ripen/#comment-509660 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 04:05:05 +0000 https://lauravanderkam.com/?p=19590#comment-509660 In the “not yet” vein, I studied technical writing and did an internship at a small company that developed in-house publishing software (by the way, best internship ever for a technical writer!) Ultimately I worked there for 7 years. But my manager had a good suggestion for job-hunting: don’t look for technical writing or documentation specialist positions. Rather, look for companies that are staffing up in development areas. They never think about the documentation, installation, implementation, training, and support of their project, until they have to. So offer your services before they know they need you. When I moved back to my home city, that’s exactly the approach that landed me another great job.

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