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I wouldn't worry too much about how to go about finding help if you get
swamped. Right now there are plenty of available technical writers and you
may just have enough trouble keeping yourself busy. If you do end up with
more work than you can handle, your local paper may be a good place if
you're in a marketplace where there are likely to be plenty of technical
writers.
In my case, when I do help files for a client, I install the customer's
application on my own system (a laptop) and go from there. When I visit my
clients, I take the laptop along and jump on their network for updated
versions or file sharing or the like.
Mike
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>Subject: Consultant Questions
>From: "Tamara Reyes-Muralles"<trm -at- telusplanet -dot- net>
>Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:28:27 GMT
>X-Message-Number: 64
>
>Hi,
>
<snip>
>I will be the only employee of my company. However, if I get a lot of calls
>for work, I will need to hire someone. I will probably need to send resumes
>to the client. I was thinking about putting an ad in the local paper asking
>technical writers to send me their resume for potential contract positions.
>Does this seem like a good plan?
>
>Other technical writing companies offer to do work on or off site. If a
technical
>writer were making a Help system, wouldn't it be almost impossible to make
the
>Help without having access to the company's application? The writer would
need
>to talk to developers and take screen shots almost every day. How can a
technical
>writer really work at home and make a company's Help system?
>
>Tamara
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