What is it like being a Copy Editor: Networking to get more Copy Editing clients Day one at the conference brought buyers remorse in anticipation of another four-day snooze fest conference filled with academic small talk. Day two brought mild optimism back, despite fact that the participants didn’t seem to care for my value proposition – in business speak (vis-a-vie …
Networking with the Un-Networkable: a brief explanatory of how to dull the schmoozing pain
Ja, Ja, Ja dez is very interesting indeed. However, I do not require such English services as we have a full in-house English department of native speakers. And just like that – I was up shit creek yet again. Except this time I knew ahead of time about the painful, small talk conversation gauntlet I would have to run. How …