Hahaha! Yes!

Well I landed a Technical Writing and Internal Logistics Support job for L3 communications, Westwood Division. Long story short, it helps to know people and have the president of the company present your resume to the group that just decided to create the position.

So I'll be getting to move back to the Tulsa area and hopefully finally get the E30 auto-X and trackworthy.

I'll be focusing on doing technical documentation for the TQGs (Tactically Quiet Generators) for the military. And also the logistics work that goes behind securing and maintaining the various contracts.

It will be nice to have benefits again (been contract the last 10 months with none) and I'll be getting a sizeable bump in pay.

I'm moving back to Sand Springs this Friday and start the new gig on Monday.

I'm super pumped.

Hey! Congrats and major kudos on the new job! Keep us appraised of how that works out for you.

I just started pulling my resume together to hopefully shift into doing technical writing. So I'm really interested in hearing your experiences.

It's not what ya know, but who ya know.

Congratulations!

EastCoastMojo wrote: It's not what ya know, but who ya know.

story of my life,, congratts

salanis, will do. The biggest thing with your english background would be showing some type of technical aptitude and you should be able to get your foot in the door.

Not sure where in CA you are, but obviously the Sacramento region has an ASTOUNDING amount of Tech Writing jobs as well as the PNW.

Thanks for the congrats!

z31maniac wrote: salanis, will do. The biggest thing with your english background would be showing some type of technical aptitude and you should be able to get your foot in the door. Not sure where in CA you are, but obviously the Sacramento region has an ASTOUNDING amount of Tech Writing jobs as well as the PNW.

I am in Sacramento proper.

How much and what sort of "technical aptitude" should I be able to show? I consider myself to be pretty technically apt (cars, computers, HTML, basic networking), but I don't have any specialty training or certifications. I'm not an expert, by any matter of means, but I understand most things, learn new systems quickly, and am really good at understanding what a more technically capable person is telling me.

I've also taught 4th-8th graders. I figure being able to give directions and explain concepts at a junior-high level should also help me.

Definitely will be.

Well me for instance, I have a journalism degree and straight out of college I went to work for State Farm as a claim rep. I had actually applied for a different job at MerCrusier then the tech writing boss got his hands on my resume and saw that I like motorcycles and had been involved with the Technical aspect of it.

I would strongly suggest putting an "Interests" section at the end of the resume that helps them identify with you, not just your resume.

The HTML and networking stuff will help you, any software experience? Lots of money to be made in software tech writing.

I'm hoping the experience I'm going to get with generators and electrical systems, and hopefully get my MBA, will help get me into the Renewable Energy sector in 4-6 years, most likely wind power.