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 [...]
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 …
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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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