atw: Re: advice for student technical writer

Erica Game said
> How did you break into the profession?
=20
I was casually contracted as a graphic designer for a small graphics
firm near Noosa to do just that, create graphics. One day I was given a
user guide to create graphics for. Simply enough, except the user guide
was crap. I decided that I could do better and spent my own time
creating a template, rewriting, reformatting and adding in the graphics.
I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

On the Monday I gave the client one original user guide with only
graphics added and also my version.=20

As it turned out the person worked for BHP and they liked my version of
the user guide. That same week I was offered a new career and flown to a
diamond mine west of Townsville to write a user guide for one monster
piece of machinery - one of the biggest "Front End Loaders" in the
world. I even got to drive it!

The beauty of all this was that once I completed my research at the mine
I was then flown home and I spent the next month writing the user guide
at Noosa. Too easy!

I spent up to 3 years doing that.

Those were days!

So simply take the opportunities when offered to you and if they aren't
any then create your own!

=20
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