Follow-up for anyone who's interested: I really like my #job. I'm doing interesting grammar things, with people I like who care about interesting grammar things, and my team are outside contractors at a tech company that gives us free lunch. Also I earned more in my first week than in all of my last job. It's a shame it's such a short contract. Hoping I can find a way to keep doing this (kind of) job.
@supergoose It's confidential, but I can say I'm doing a lot of diagramming sentences and arguing about how they should be diagrammed. It's my favorite part of high school English class turned up to 12.
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That sounds like a pretty cool gig. I like grammar and other HS English components.
( If you can answer: ) Is it just English, or are there other languages involved?
(I am interested because I used to be an American Sign Language interpreter (I quit a couple of years ago), and I've spent several years analyzing how people say things, sentence structure as it pertains to interpreting, etc. So while I _am_ just some rando from the internet, I am genuinely interested 😄 )
@supergoose I am working with English, and my team are linguists and computational linguists consulting on an NLU project. Again, details are confidential.
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I understand. Thanks for sharing what you have! Sounds like a cool gig! 👍
@DialMforMara I hope so too!
@DialMforMara How long is the contract?
@filkerdave Three months "with possible extension". I gotta figure out when is best to ask about that extension, or other jobs at either the client or the company that hired me, without being presumptuous. I'm thinking early September.
@DialMforMara Good luck with it! Hoping for good news for you
@DialMforMara I hope that works out - it sounds ideal in all respects except the shortness.
@DialMforMara Hey, congrats! It's always nice when you actually get to enjoy your work. Good luck with it!
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What interesting grammar things? What kind of job is this? I'm intrigued... 🍿