Schroedinger’s Technical Writer
My current job is actually someone else’s job. I’m just filling in while she’s out having and recovering from surgery. Today, I got good news and bad news, and both can be either, if that makes sense. The first piece of news is that the person I’m substituting for is probably going to be back this time next week, which is good because she’s feeling better, and bad because I still need work. The second piece of news is that during the surgery, the doctors found something that’s going to require another surgery, probably in a few weeks. This is bad, because this poor woman is going to require another surgery, and good, because I’m very likely to either be kept on or brought back after a brief interval, and as I said, I need the work. The really interesting twist in this situation is that the department is actually down one full time technical writer anyway, and if they can get their budget and paperwork straightened out quickly, they might just decide to keep me. This is good, because (all together now) I need the work, it’s a good group to work with, and I wouldn’t have feel guilty about coveting this unfortunate (and very nice) other woman’s job. There is no bad there, as far as I can tell, which is definitely good. But in the short term, it’s all very uncertain, which isn’t great, but I’ll live with it.
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