Re: What was your first job out of college?

On Sep 28, 3:30 am, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in part:
How many are you? ;-)
How many? what's that suppose to mean? Ok, I miss used the
term "WE" with "I".. I apologize.! English grammar was never
my strong point, even though it's my native tongue.
That's why I throw my reports over to the secretary for review
before I submit them.
After all, they are an appliance aren't they ? :)

No, they aren't, and they shouldn't have to do your work.

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I tend to agree with Michael. In my mind no matter what job one does
one should be professional enough to be able to communicate
effectively and accurately in at least one language.

For most of us that is English; sadly too like most I have no other
language capability which is certainly a limitation. With time back
would certainly have learnt French or maybe Spanish. Although the way
the world is developing Chines or Farsi (India) might be better but
much more difficult for a westerner (and an older one at that) to
learn even a smattering.

That doesn't mean we don't all, occasionally, in haste, misspell a
word or don't use 'Spell-check' correctly. But bad sentence
construction etc. only obfuscates and tells the reader that YOU don't
communicate very well!

For example: I had a graduate engineer working for me at one time who
couldn't write even to follow a pre-set format. We (myself and other
managers) wondered how he ever passed his engineering courses. We gave
him a low performance review for that and other reasons and he
eventually straightened himself out.

These days much communication is direct (email, MSN, ng postings etc.)
i.e. no secretarial involvement at all, such as this item that I type
and post myself. Must spell check it before sending and read over to
spot the worst of any grammatical errors.

Criticism welcomed. Always willing to learn.

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