I want to work for DC now

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

How's THIS for the perfect job for me? I just don't want to take the pay cut, thanks.

DC is looking for a proofreader:
http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=37401838&AVSDM=2006%2D03%2D06+14%3A27%3A35&Logo=1

-Augie

[Citizen V]

This job doesnt look like its for just a High School student.It says more credientals are needed,personally i think its a bit fishy.I have a overseas friend who already writes for a small Independant comic,i should recomend this to him.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

It's definitely entry level. And the fact that they don't care if you have a college degree is a little fishy. I wouldn't trust a mere high school graduate today with knowing grammar or spelling. I've seen those samples. They're not pretty.

On the other hand, it might be one of those times when they have the person for the job and they're just creating it and putting it on Monster.com to follow corporate guidelines to open up all jobs to all people, even when they already have the person to fill it. You see that a lot when you get a "credentials needed" that don't blend together at all. ("We require someone with Java, Oracle, and Perl experience. Also, they need to have 3+ years experience at Starbucks, and two babysitting their little sister as a teenager.")

-Augie

[Sabrina_Fried]

It's definitely entry level. And the fact that they don't care if you have a college degree is a little fishy. I wouldn't trust a mere high school graduate today with knowing grammar or spelling. I've seen those samples. They're not pretty.

On the other hand, it might be one of those times when they have the person for the job and they're just creating it and putting it on Monster.com to follow corporate guidelines to open up all jobs to all people, even when they already have the person to fill it. You see that a lot when you get a "credentials needed" that don't blend together at all. ("We require someone with Java, Oracle, and Perl experience. Also, they need to have 3+ years experience at Starbucks, and two babysitting their little sister as a teenager.")

-Augie

I think that's exactly what this is. If my experience breaking into the Canadian publishing industry has been any indication no one hires a copy editor, let alone a proofreader these days without at least a university degree in something, and preference is given to those of us with some publishing degrees or certifications to our name. The only exception is unpaid interns. But those are expected to at least be working towards a publishing degree. They have someone in mind. They are just collecting applications at this point so they can say they did consider competition.

That said, I'm going to apply anyway. At the very least it will get my resume into DC. Maybe I could pick up some freelance editing work for them, if they are willing to let me work from home (in Canada).

Sabrina

[pmpknface]

Good Luck! :d

[BronteJD]

It's definitely entry level. And the fact that they don't care if you have a college degree is a little fishy. I wouldn't trust a mere high school graduate today with knowing grammar or spelling. I've seen those samples. They're not pretty.


Heh.

Try GRADING briefs for wanna-be law school students. I teach college-level Constitutional Law, and sometimes I actually have to do a remedial grammar lesson for people after we do the first set of briefs. Typos are one thing, they happen to all of us, but an inability to pluralize basic verbs and continously not fail to distinguish between they're and their??? :rolleyes:

Sorry. Just a point of frustration. ;)

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

My last grammar class was in sixth or seventh grade. Thankfully, I had teachers who really drilled it into our heads. When I was in eighth grade, they started to de-emphasize grammar. By the time I was in high school not only did we never get another grammar lesson, but the lessons they used to teach in seventh grade were eliminated.

We're at the point today where "creative spelling" is taught to teachers, and IM-speak is tolerated as if it were acceptable English. The very notion of emphasizing English as a language, in some parts of this country, is tantamount to racism.

You're not alone in your frustration.

(See VariousAndSundry.com this morning for another confused word choice in a major publisher's press release.)

-Augie

[roach04]

When I was in 12th grade English the teacher returned the first batch of papers with notations on several indicating that verb and noun tense didn't agree in multiple places. One guy in my class put up his hand and asked, completely honestly, "Uh...isn't that only applicable in French?".

Grammar is dead and it will never come back.