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Re: Big bucks in tech writing

Subject: Re: Big bucks in tech writing
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:00:14 -0700


Andrew Plato wrote:

Which I suppose ultimately comes down to priorities. What is important to you?
Comfort? Money? Fame?

My impression is that many tech-writers don't have a lot of ambition to rise in the corporate structure. They may want to move from Junior to Senior Writer, or from Senior Writer to Documentation Writer, but not much more.

I don't judge this sentiment is any way (there can be something admirable in knowing what you want and staying with it, and sometimes something just as admirable in being ambitious): it's simply what I've observed.

However, I wonder how accurate this impression is. So, I'd to throw out some questions to the list:

How many people are content with being a technical writer? Do people see themselves as being tech-writers for the rest of their working lives? Or do they hope to move into another field or into management? If they do plan to move away from technical writing, what do they plan to do next? Ultimately?

If there's enough responses, I'll summarize them in a week or so.

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