Reading Response #6

               The article writing for a living took a different path than one might infer from the title. The article interviewed twelve employees that were selected based on the intense use of writing in large corporate operations, smaller legal firms, and industries such as healthcare. It was interesting as all the interviewees seemed to come from different career paths, but all had such a similar task: writing. One specific example looked at a broker within an investment firm and how he struggled to work with his coworker to perfect an offer before sending out a deal. As he tells it is impossible to do business if the proposal submitted is not spot on accurate. Personally, I had not idea that there was so much writing involved in the corporate world, often I believe that corporations are simplified down to numbers as businesses rely on monetary analysis to evaluate performance. I feel that writing sometimes isn’t given the credit it deserves, it lays hidden below all the numbers when, writing (or communication) makes up the most important aspects of business. As someone who is probably headed into the corporate world, this is article was appealing to me as it made me cognizant of the fact that writing truly is at the heart of what I will likely spend many years dedicating my life to.