James was kind enough to invite me here to share “how I got my start”. Ironically another magazine (a hard copy one wanted a similar story with more of a pre-biography) attached to it. I decided to combine the two an this is what I wrote. Thank so much James. Hope your readers enjoy. Sincerely, [...]
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I had a string of service industry jobs through my twenties, and then a recession hit. I was out of a job and collecting employment insurance. Just as my insurance was running out, I found one of the government retraining programs in the back of one of those want-ad broadsheets you can find everywhere.
I took [...]
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I’ll start with Chapter 5: Donna Makes the Transition from Admin Assistant to Technical Writer
Way back… 1990-something, a friend told me I should be a technical writer. I didn’t believe her, but she was absolutely convinced I could do it. (We met when I was the editor of several organizational newsletters).
My friend interviewed for [...]
I got my start in business in 1988. I was sitting at my desk in a tech company and it dawned on me that if I stayed inside at that cubicle one more day, I was going to get a gun and shoot myself. For real.
I remember like it was yesterday. I got up, went [...]
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As for my current career, I had been working in a garment factory for way too long and was so desperate to leave that I was almost about to stand on the street corner and hand out resumes to passersby. During this time I had a filling come out of a tooth.
Went to the dentist [...]
In my early thirties I began to turn yellow and by the time I was in my fifties, I was bronzed orange all year round (even in the Montana wintertime with lots of overcast days). I also developed celiac symptoms (severe gluten intolerance) and was about 20-30 pounds overweight.
My first husband developed some horrible symptoms [...]
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I started in college doing many different odd jobs to pay for tuition and extra curricular activities.
I used the internet to find jobs as well as training for what I do today.
What I stumbled upon online and eventually learned was that Wedding Photography is my passion. I’m looking to be my own boss and [...]
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I am a web/graphic designer who was extremely unhappy in the corporate world, as it squandered all my creativity and turned what I used to love into what felt like a chore. Then one day it came to me, that I was meant to start something on my own and re-gain what it felt like [...]
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It all started in 1632 when William Richard Whitehurst signed an indenture as he arrived at Cape Henry in Virginia for 1500 acres for 7 yrs of work …
Sorry.
I’m the 13th generation since William Richard Whitehurst and while I worked at Newport News Shipbuilding I wanted to communicate with computers using software as the [...]
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To explain how I got my start as a Golf Professional I have to go back a little.
Since I was about 15, I aspired to be a professional snooker (billiards) player. I gave myself 10 years to pursue this and was willing to “get a real job” if I had not turned pro by the [...]
