Re: Career moves? What jobs are technical writers likely to move toward

Subject: Re: Career moves? What jobs are technical writers likely to move toward
From: "Laura Johnson" <Laura_Johnson -at- agilent -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:46:31 -0700


I was a programmer, then a tech writer, then a manager, now a tech writer
... all (more or less) voluntary moves, all within one company. But I don't
claim to be normal or anything ;->
regards,
Laura Johnson
Learning Products Engineer (aka "tech writer")
Agilent Technologies MAST


"Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message news:220850 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> I did a little unscientific research on Google...
>
> "former technical writer" - 430 hits
> "former programmer" - 2000 hits
> "former manager" - 67,500 hits (LOL!)
>
> This corresponds to my experience... back when I was chasing FT jobs, one
of
> my interview questions was "Can you introduce me to anyone here who *used*
> to be a technical writer?" Nobody ever took me up on that - not once. I
> concluded that tech writers were not likely to advance in the
organization.
>
> (and a lot of the "former manager" hits seemed to be in the context of
> "indicted" or "ordered to pay damages..." :-)
>
> Mike O.
>
>
>
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