It doesn't matter if you can write well. No one cares. I've never been employed by anyone who could compose a grammatically correct sentence. Like Tim, I worked in PR and marketing almost right out of college. Unlike Tim, I had a higher-up who seemed threatened by my ability to write. She loved to put commas all over her sentences and had never used a semi-colon correctly. One day she wrote this awful company bio and sent it to me to double-check and told me to "not dumb it down". I told her it was dumb enough and left it at that.
As of last week, I dispense coffee for some fancy shop in SoHo. And you know, the pay is pretty much the same (I got luck that way) and way less stressful.
Perhaps I have had bad luck in employment, but I no longer think that writing well is an advantage.
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