RE: Conducting Telephone Interviews

[Stuart Burnfield <sburnf -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com>]

Lin wrote:
> I hate that question, too.
>
> I have no, none, ZILCH, interest in moving out of the tech
> writing field or even out of being a tech writer with no
> managerial/supervisory/project lead responsibilities. I'm
> _happy_ as a tech writer. My only "ambition" or "desire for
> growth" lays in learning more: learning more about the things
> I'm documenting; learning more new things that I (may) then
> document; and learning more new tools and new ways of doing
> things (which I may or may not use to document something;
> I have a strong tropism towards ooo! shiney!).

If you said that to me at an interview it would be a _great_ answer.
(That and slipping in a reference to Serenity would probably
be enough to get you the job.)

It amazes me how much people dislike this question.
Why not just answer truthfully and see what happens?

Stuart

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