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I have a journalism degree, and spent a short stint as a reporter before transitioning to engineering. I share much the same experience: both encountering a di

I have a journalism degree, and spent a short stint as a reporter before transitioning to engineering. I share much the same experience: both encountering a distinct lack of effective communication based on what I had expected, and being written off (pun intended) during the hiring process. My biggest daily struggle is with those who want to verbally discuss every single issue, or worse, chat over informal DMs. Typically those conversations are somehow both circular and meandering all at once. For me personally, I feel my commitment to writing-competency-over-technical-prowess has been my biggest asset throughout this second act. I'd like to think it allows me to back in to the technical aspects and keeps me better organized overall. I also have diagnosed ADHD and a form of dyslexia so perhaps I'm just too easily distracted. p.s. Please don't judge my grammar or spelling on this reply -- I'm writing from the bath with a fever!

v-erne 4y ago
>> My biggest daily struggle is with those who want to verbally discuss every single issue, or worse, chat over informal DMs. That's interesting - I tend to have mixed feeling about this. Sometimes I wish I had all communication done in writting. But the reality is that as a dev and seminconsultant I work in 10 different domains at the same time and there is no way for me to have enough time to encode all my clients knowledge in structured writing - the only way for my situation to be bearable is to encode this into code and working applications. And the only way to quickly gather knowledge and and have feedback loop on it is to encode it as working applications. Because lets face it even if I was master communicator and writer most clients areny and never will be. And most areny paing for writing text but for providing solutions. So I'm in this dissonance here where I would love to be better writer but the reality is that its not really that useful in my situation. Ok, and now I feel depressed, thank goodness I just this moment went into confectionery.
- selimthegrim 4y ago
  >Ok, and now I feel depressed, thank goodness I just this moment went into confectionery. Where do we order?

v-erne 4y ago

>> My biggest daily struggle is with those who want to verbally discuss every single issue, or worse, chat over informal DMs. That's interesting - I tend to have mixed feeling about this. Sometimes I wish I had all communication done in writting. But the reality is that as a dev and seminconsultant I work in 10 different domains at the same time and there is no way for me to have enough time to encode all my clients knowledge in structured writing - the only way for my situation to be bearable is to encode this into code and working applications. And the only way to quickly gather knowledge and and have feedback loop on it is to encode it as working applications. Because lets face it even if I was master communicator and writer most clients areny and never will be. And most areny paing for writing text but for providing solutions. So I'm in this dissonance here where I would love to be better writer but the reality is that its not really that useful in my situation. Ok, and now I feel depressed, thank goodness I just this moment went into confectionery.

selimthegrim 4y ago
>Ok, and now I feel depressed, thank goodness I just this moment went into confectionery. Where do we order?