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Subject:Tech Writer makes it BIG on CBC!! From:Jonathan Stoppi <stops -at- qualum -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:35:22 -0800
I feel like a child who's been caught not listening in class. Here in
Victoria, no one has commented on my broadcast last week, while all this
discussion has been going on in TechWr-L and Techshoret (the Israeli TW
forum), which I had no inkling about as I've been too busy in
non-tech-writing matters to have monitored the TechWr-L postings recently.
My thanks to Len Kirby for his praise, but BIG on CBC? Hardly. Just a
one-off piece on Commentary, which I had to rustle up in a matter of
hours. If it leads to regular commentary, I'll be pleased, of course,
because I was weaned on politics, writing and broadcasting since birth.
Paula Stern is right: tech writers in Israel still have it good -
comparatively - thanks to the sheer advantage of knowing English. As a
technical writer, there's little chance in Canada of earning the kind of
salary I earned in Israel. Since my departure last July, dozens more in
the company I worked for have been laid off in a second downsizing in a
year, including my own former boss, yet the position of the technical
writer is secure, because if he goes, then the company might as well
turn off the lights.
If I left, it's not for reasons of career, but because of a pet
(ironically, Hebrew-related) project of mine that couldn't get funding
in Israel.
- Jonathan Lotan Stoppi
Relocates here and there
stops @ qualum.com
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