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RE: Are technical writers not eligible for a good pay packet?
Subject:RE: Are technical writers not eligible for a good pay packet? From:Sanjay Srikonda <SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:37:45 -0500
quite simply. I usually just smile at them and say, well, considering I'm
expected to understand both the technical aspect of your product as well and
then translate it so that a non-user can use it, my salary is commensurate
with my ability to convey technical ideas to a disparate audience. Usually,
not in such a verbose way, but the point is, we're often as taxed as
programmers are to convey what the user wanted in the original
specifications to what has been delivered within the constraints of the
environment. I see my job as the final process before the software goes out
the door. If the programmer has done theirs, the software works, if I've
done mine, the software can be used efficiently. But, that's my .02.
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From: PB [mailto:pbcommunicator -at- myrealbox -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 2:19 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Are technical writers not eligible for a good pay packet?
Hi
Sometimes it makes me furious when an interviewer says
"For a technical writer, your salary is great".
Why are technical communicators compared to programmers
most of the time? Isn't technical communication as
complicated as anything else? How would you handle this?
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