I’ve Been Saying It for Years !

It was with mixed emotions that I started a new job at RR Donnelley & Sons on Sept. 2nd as a Composition Specialist.
All my working life I told myself I was not gonna work there, due to it being shift work and doing swing shifts. Alas, I accepted the job and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying it.

There is a bit of a learning curve when it comes to proof reading financial printing documents, as opposed to doing other artwork and layouts in Indesign.

There will be a lot of things I will be doing in this dept. not only proof reading but doing the layout, the editing, working in desktop for the graphics, and pagination. (not all in that order)

At the moment I am training with four others learning to proof read and make marks for content and style errors for our editors to fix if need be. I have to say this job is a very strict time restraint of how fast the work has to be done to turn around for the client. As fast as an overnight turn around on a 100+ page job.

I am excited to see where this job takes me. A bit overwhelmed at all the new “jargon” I have to learn as well all the info my brain has sucked in in the last two and a half weeks.

I am truly sailing into the unknown, and I’m excited.

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