SQUEE!!!!!
Mar. 31st, 2008 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterThis is me, jumping up and down and yelling and screaming like a little girl. (Well, in my head anyway, I am still at work and all.)
It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that this data entry job I've been on for the last ten months has been slowly devouring my soul. I stuck with it, perhaps in part because I was burned out on looking for jobs after my last stretch of unemployment, but also because the people and the business are great, and it's a good work environment in general. (For instance, they provide not only free coffee, but also free hot cocoa and cappucino mix in the breakrooms. Yum. Also, they have quarterly profit-sharing, which netted me $95 last month.) Over the last few weeks, I've been in a kind of panic as my numbers have fallen a bit, and I've been living in fear that my days of employment were once again numbered.
Well, all my waiting has paid off. It had become known, in yearly review interviews and applications for other positions in the course of my tenure here, that I was a writer. Well, several days ago my name came up in a meeting, where they were discussing writing documentation and training guides. My supervisor asked me to write up something about my technical writing experience, and I did. One thing led to another, and I had an interview with the head of the IT department, and it culminated in my learning today that as soon as my supervisor can find a replacement data-entry person for me, I'll be moved over into IT to do documentation and training guides, as well as provide some phone support.
They hire in-house first wherever possible, and I have the twin qualifications of being a good writer, and of being very experienced in data-entry, which is what I'd need to be writing the guides for. So, essentially, I'm going to be writing "how-to" guides for my business, much the same as I've done for City of Heroes.
This is very exciting news for me. Not only am I going to get to do the kind of work I love and actually use my brain instead of trying to turn it off, but soon I will no longer need to worry about my data-entry numbers. And I'll get to keep my seniority for profit-sharing figures. I can't wait to start cranking out the docs. (And the fact that it should come with a bump in salary will also help, given that my biggest student loan is due to start billing again in a couple of months.)
It should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that this data entry job I've been on for the last ten months has been slowly devouring my soul. I stuck with it, perhaps in part because I was burned out on looking for jobs after my last stretch of unemployment, but also because the people and the business are great, and it's a good work environment in general. (For instance, they provide not only free coffee, but also free hot cocoa and cappucino mix in the breakrooms. Yum. Also, they have quarterly profit-sharing, which netted me $95 last month.) Over the last few weeks, I've been in a kind of panic as my numbers have fallen a bit, and I've been living in fear that my days of employment were once again numbered.
Well, all my waiting has paid off. It had become known, in yearly review interviews and applications for other positions in the course of my tenure here, that I was a writer. Well, several days ago my name came up in a meeting, where they were discussing writing documentation and training guides. My supervisor asked me to write up something about my technical writing experience, and I did. One thing led to another, and I had an interview with the head of the IT department, and it culminated in my learning today that as soon as my supervisor can find a replacement data-entry person for me, I'll be moved over into IT to do documentation and training guides, as well as provide some phone support.
They hire in-house first wherever possible, and I have the twin qualifications of being a good writer, and of being very experienced in data-entry, which is what I'd need to be writing the guides for. So, essentially, I'm going to be writing "how-to" guides for my business, much the same as I've done for City of Heroes.
This is very exciting news for me. Not only am I going to get to do the kind of work I love and actually use my brain instead of trying to turn it off, but soon I will no longer need to worry about my data-entry numbers. And I'll get to keep my seniority for profit-sharing figures. I can't wait to start cranking out the docs. (And the fact that it should come with a bump in salary will also help, given that my biggest student loan is due to start billing again in a couple of months.)
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Date: 2008-03-31 05:27 pm (UTC)