ink and yarnI may not have business cards (and I wouldn't want a job that requires them!) but now I have a mug with my job title on it, and that's a thousand times cooler.
#TalesFromTheHomeOffice #WorkFromHome #WordWrangler #MicrosoftWord
Anniebeeknits@anniebeeknits Hahaha, I love it!
@emery So much more fun -- and frankly, more accurate -- than "Senior Conference Planner".
@anniebeeknits "Word Wrangler" is more accurate than "Document Publishing Specialist," too - especially now that I've taken on more proofreading & editing.
@emery Love it! I seem to split my time between Word and Excel these days... What would that be? Microsoft Muppet? 🤣
@anniebeeknits When I started as Word Wrangler, it was strictly wrangling _Word_ - making templates, enforcing styles, doing the last-minute formatting before submittal. But it didn't take long before I started wrangling words as well as Word, because I got so frustrated at the writers' inability to write cleanly and the coordinators' lack of proofreading experience.
I try not to wrangle Excel; that's my brother's job. (I have used it to design colourwork when I'm bored in offices, though.)
@emery Haha, yess! A kindred spirit: I ended up as chief copy-editor for a big community sewing blog because I couldn't deal with the typos and garbled writing, AND I totally noodle around with colourwork charts in Excel.
@anniebeeknits This is exactly the sort of connection I joined Mastodon for <3
I showed Husband your job title mug; he agrees that it's incredibly accurate for what you do!
@emery (It's a sticker: https://www.teepublic.com/sticker/2100142-chaos-coordinator)
Also, SAME!
Chaos Coordinator by chestify
Are you a multi-tasking genius? Can you juggle family, friends, work and everything life throws at you with skill ? This is the perfect Chaos Coordinator shirt for that busy person in your life. Whether it's a busy mom, dad, a teacher, colleague, boss, manager, friend or workmate this is the perfect fun gift for them.
Knitronomicon@anniebeeknits @emery Hail, kindred spirits!
I ended up as chief proofreader/copy-editor in my last 2 jobs because I kept spotting the typos anyway, so it got made semi-official. And then my boss in the last job suggested I actually do a proof-reading course, and Work paid for it. (I paid for the advanced course later ... out of my redundancy money.)
@Knitronomicon @anniebeeknits Yayyy! More proofreading knitters! <3