Not So Fast
No job for me :( They kept pushing out my start date so I was getting suspicious. Ends up the team had their budget slashed and the team was re-org'ed, so they lost the contract head I was hired to fill :( I think the mgr who hired me may also have gotten let go.
The good news is the agency has been submitting me to a couple other gigs, and I guess I'm a good prospect for them since another team was ready to hire me. :) It's good to know that the hiring managers are actually *looking* at my resume. There was one in particular from the same recruiter that hooked me up with this gig that I should hear something about next week.
In other news I set up an account with the Mozilla Documentation Project via the Mozilla Developer Center and will start working on some developer docs for them. They have a to-do list I've been browsing and a few things on there look pretty fun.
The Ubuntu stuff is super fun but it's mostly end user and I need developer doc experience. I'm still waiting for the packaging guide I wrote to be reviewed and I have other sections to start on, but it's going pretty slow. In the meantime I'm hoping to pick up some end user docs since those are pretty easy for me to churn out and make a big difference to the Ubuntu community.
In other news I've mainly been knitting my little heart out :) I have all these doc projects to do and I totally don't do them, just knit ;) I took time off of knitting all summer while I focused on school. I need to find a better balance but for now I'm just indulging myself.
Finally, I have a class starting tonight, Information Architecture for the Web for Technical Writers. What a mouthful! It's a 3 session class covering web documentation. I was hoping it wouldn't get canceled because the alternative would be to take this web documentation class from the doc design instructor I didn't really care for. She really likes group projects, and I don't. At least, not in a continuing education setting. The way I see it, in IRL we have enough group projects, it's nice to work on something on your own once in awhile. Furthermore, if it's for *my* portfolio I don't want anyone else getting their grubby little paws on it.
The good news is the agency has been submitting me to a couple other gigs, and I guess I'm a good prospect for them since another team was ready to hire me. :) It's good to know that the hiring managers are actually *looking* at my resume. There was one in particular from the same recruiter that hooked me up with this gig that I should hear something about next week.
In other news I set up an account with the Mozilla Documentation Project via the Mozilla Developer Center and will start working on some developer docs for them. They have a to-do list I've been browsing and a few things on there look pretty fun.
The Ubuntu stuff is super fun but it's mostly end user and I need developer doc experience. I'm still waiting for the packaging guide I wrote to be reviewed and I have other sections to start on, but it's going pretty slow. In the meantime I'm hoping to pick up some end user docs since those are pretty easy for me to churn out and make a big difference to the Ubuntu community.
In other news I've mainly been knitting my little heart out :) I have all these doc projects to do and I totally don't do them, just knit ;) I took time off of knitting all summer while I focused on school. I need to find a better balance but for now I'm just indulging myself.
Finally, I have a class starting tonight, Information Architecture for the Web for Technical Writers. What a mouthful! It's a 3 session class covering web documentation. I was hoping it wouldn't get canceled because the alternative would be to take this web documentation class from the doc design instructor I didn't really care for. She really likes group projects, and I don't. At least, not in a continuing education setting. The way I see it, in IRL we have enough group projects, it's nice to work on something on your own once in awhile. Furthermore, if it's for *my* portfolio I don't want anyone else getting their grubby little paws on it.