XPost: misc.writing, misc.education, alt.journalism   
   From: LivernoisYards@Comcast.net   
      
   "chris_tine49@hotmail.com"  wrote in message   
   news:1131837959.022586.29960@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > So you were hired for your content knowledge, not for your writing   
   > ability.   
   >   
   > That's sort of a different case.   
   >   
   > Christine   
   >   
      
   The documentations chief said he hired me primarily for my editing and   
   writing abilities. He since was promoted into another division there on   
   account of his recent MBA.   
      
   He further stated that the combination of superior editing/writing skills   
   plus competency in software engineering is **extremely rare** (his words) in   
   his direct experience.   
      
   I had not applied for recent employment there, although I once had a firm   
   job offer there but turned it down 39 years ago. At that time they were HQed   
   in inner-city, near-North side Chicago (Augusta Street with razor-wire   
   surrouding its employee parking lot). However, that was during the Vietnam   
   War era, and my employment as the chief engineer of a high-powered AM/FM   
   station in Milwaukee afforded me a deferment from the military draft by   
   Governor Knowles back then - something that the Chicago firm could not do...   
      
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