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No, all TW is not computer oriented, it's just that that's where the
greatest need and the most money is. My personal love is in aviation,
but there's no money in that at all.
You might look into the bio-tech industry, there's an enormous
requirement for TW with knowledge of FDA Good Manufacturing
Processes. Another fairly lucrative field is environmental writing.
The last I looked, manufacturinging writing doesn't pay well, but
that might have changed.
A while back, I did do some editing for physicians who wanted to be
published in AMA etc. There is work in other fields, you just have to
dig some.
Good luck.
Marc
Marc A. Santacroce
Senior Technical Writer
ePubs, Inc.
"An idiot with a computer is a better, faster idiot."
