Since I was laid off from Identity Automation in August of 2022 after 3 1/2 years of successfully running their documentation (much of which I did alone), I have had some difficulty finding a perfect fit in the workforce once again. My earnest hope is that a small start-up with no tech writer will find me because they need someone to set up their documentation department and actually develop a user manual as well as an internal documentation protocol. I do what I do because I love it and it’s interesting to me, and because nobody else ever wants to deal with the tedium and organized chaos that is documentation in an engineering environment. But I like it and have built a career on that.

However, I’ve begun to start asking myself: If I’m not a documentation professional, what can I do? What jobs can I apply for that will utilize my existing skill set to the fullest while still providing an interesting work environment/decent paycheck? (i.e., I don’t want to go back to secretarial/assistant work if I can help it.) So this is my identity crisis at 42 years of age.

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