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RE: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers
Subject:RE: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for tech writers From:"Darren Barefoot" <darren -at- darrenbarefoot -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:57:10 -0800
I'm kind of running a similar gambit. I live and work from a home office
in Vancouver, Canada. My clients are in California, Ireland and the UK.
I have a team of subcontractors who do work for me--they're located
across Canada and in Ireland. I have yet to employ or be employed by
anybody in India, China, etc... But it's bound to happen eventually.
They'll just plug into my growing international Web of work. DB.
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> Of Dick Margulis
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> Subject: Re: Coping with offshoring - a modest proposal for
> tech writers
>
> Mike,
>
> It may already be happening. I found a freelance graphic artist to do
> some icons for us. He has a thoroughly Russian name along
> with a pretty
> good command of English, and he has a Los Angeles postal address and
> phone number. But at the rates he was charging, the speed he
> produced,
> and the hours of the day when he communicated with me, it is entirely
> possible that he was managing a small workshop of artists in Moscow
> rather than working late into the night by himself in LA.
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