A couple of very kind readers messaged me to tell me that I am a good writer. Good enough that I should strongly consider doing it for my profitable at-home business. Specifically as a copywriter/content creator or a technical writer. I have absolutely no experience as a technical writer, and only some very outdated experience with copywriting and content creation, so I was flattered, but dubious. Later one of them gave me some more specific tips for beginning a career in technical writing. Things like making an Upwork account—which I did. There is a link below.
Let me state that I am utterly daunted by technical writing. I have only an “I like Jared Diamond’s books and Gizmodo articles” grasp of the science and technology that tech writers deal with. My inability to learn even the rudiments of programming thus far is well-documented here. I barely, and I do mean, barely passed high school chemistry in 1990—thanks entirely to Mr. Norris synthesizing a C- out of an F with the reagent of not wanting to see me back in his class. So Big Pharma probably ain’t where my destiny lies. So, you see where my hesitance in pursuing technical writing comes from, right?
I am not saying that I will not try technical writing, but I am saying that I hate nothing in life so much as looking foolish. And trying to do something that I have absolutely no frame of reference for is the platonic ideal of how to look like a fool. I hate a lot of things strongly—so that should give you some idea of how much I hate looking like a fool.
My resting face is this, but with a much larger head.
That I so often look like a fool is the tragicomedy at the center of my thankfully as yet unfinished tale, The Life and Opinions of Jeremy D. Nichols, Galoot.
One of these days I’m going to take this book off of the shelf and read it. Or at least read a synopsis online.
It’s clear that I have Imposter Syndrome where technical writing is concerned, but I most certainly do not have that when it comes to copywriting. Instead, I have a touch of this:
This chart shows how America is getting so great again.
Folks, I feel confident in my ability to write clearly, concisely, and on time. Unfortunately, other than this blog, I do not have a portfolio. And my work history is in cooking in restaurants and delis, years of retail, phone banks, legal filing, various unpaid acting and theatre and general factotum-type stuff. Not exactly a dream CV. But, Jennifer is a resume wizard, and through her eerie powers, she manages to make me look pretty presentable on paper. You know, someone that should be hired and not mocked for being an incompetent fool.
Not Jennifer’s actual portrait. (She’s actually a rock gnome bard. The resume wizardry is just a side quest.)
So. . .
Feel free to hire me for all of your content creation needs. Here is the link to my profile: Upwork link.
If you didn’t read the last post, I made a one question poll for which email domain I should use for the newsletter. Only fifteen people out of the three hundred or so who read the post, and it is almost dead even. I would never, and I do mean never ask y’all to answer a long survey. Please answer the one question polls I set up every so often. If I did not value your opinions, I would not ask. It can be answered in less time than it takes to read this sentence.
ONE QUESTION POLL, SERIOUSLY IT'S ONE QUESTION. ONE.
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