End of Sabbatical, new salary trends?

["Kevin McGowan" <evikn_tour -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Hi whirlers!

It's been a long time since I posted anything here...I've just finished a 
year-long sabbatical and had a brilliant time. Now, I'm heading back to 
Ontario to find work. You can imagine my combination of feelings now: dread, 
fear, anxiety, and the knowledge that the high-tech boom in Ottawa and 
Toronto died out just as I was taking off to Fiji.

This might be inappropriate, so if it is, don't flame me too hard. But I'm 
just getting my feet into the tech writing world again and I'm trying to see 
what the current trends are in software, hiring, etc. If anyone has any 
thoughts about "the scene in general" in the Toronto area, please let me 
know.

I'm mostly curious about salaries and hourly rates...the average has seemed 
to drop in the past 12-18 months. I have been filling out forms on 
job-search sites and they always ask for expected salary...and I don't want 
to sound like I'm asking for the moon.

Advice for a writer trying to plan his re-entry??

Cheers, all.

Kevin

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