Post by dalailala on Aug 4, 2007 8:11:08 GMT -5
Besides, you never really know what "marketable skills" you might have hidden, and I honestly don't mean that in a perverse way. I worked in a mall retail store for 10 years after I gave up on writing and quit college, and I thought that, like my mother before me, retail was all I was capable of doing. But it turned out that my basic skill set of being able to smile and serve... well, books, in my case, plus knowing how to use a computer, was enough to get me a customer service job in an office, answering phones and greeting our few walk ins. Eventually I learned to do nearly everything else in the office (except for how to do the art!) and was the Operations Managers right hand.... err... woman.
When I decided recently to go BACK to college, I had to leave there, but now had some new office skills to take with me. I got a job doing data entry (again, knowing how to use a computer is more of a "marketable skill" than one might think), until they realized that my major was tech writing. Now I am writing and editing their procedural manuals instead.
At any rate, the moral of the story is that you can start with just a little bit to get your foot in the door. Once you're through the door, you never know where it might take you.
Aw heck, now I gotta go find that Bilbo Baggins quote....
-Lala
When I decided recently to go BACK to college, I had to leave there, but now had some new office skills to take with me. I got a job doing data entry (again, knowing how to use a computer is more of a "marketable skill" than one might think), until they realized that my major was tech writing. Now I am writing and editing their procedural manuals instead.
At any rate, the moral of the story is that you can start with just a little bit to get your foot in the door. Once you're through the door, you never know where it might take you.
Aw heck, now I gotta go find that Bilbo Baggins quote....
-Lala