You know you’re a communicator when….

1. You have this silly little grin on your face when you hear people say on the elevator: “that was an AWESOME speech (or e-mail) from the CEO”—because more than likely, you or one of your colleagues wrote it.
2. You’re willing to put your marriage on the line by continually correcting your spouse’s grammar.
3. After 10 years in the profession, your family and friends still don’t understand what you do.
4. Although they don’t understand what you do – they come to you to get complaint letters written, grant proposals checked, and theses proof-read.
5. There’s nothing better in the morning than your coffee and getting your news fix for the day.
6. You ponder for hours the irony of the phrase “elevator speech,” given that most of the time in and around elevators, no one says a word or make a sound.
7. You still get nervous anytime you have to launch a company-wide e-mail.
8. You know no-one ever reads the whole annual report but you.
9. The press releases your boss likes best are the ones you wrote as a joke to show him how awful all those cliches are…
10. You ponder for hours the fact that although you are a communicator – you don’t appear to be able to communicate what you do.

Some of these come from the Communicators Social Network myragan.com and some of them are my own observations…