Re: Job outlook...

["Stephanie Bryant" <mortaine -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 6/26/07, Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Hardware writer: Forget it. You have to be on-site.<
>
> I have to agree with most of your comments about telecommuting, except
> this
> one.... I also work out of my home office.... I should add that I work
> in Northern Vermont


Thank you. I was, in fact, specifically answering the question posed about
work in the Bay Area (which I assumed, as probably the OP did, meant the SF
Bay Area/Silicon Valley).

Telecommute options vary regionally-- I myself work in California for a
telecommute-friendly company in Michigan. Here in the Bay Area for hardware
writers, it is *very* difficult to convince the company to let you work
remotely. At best, I've seen hardware writers allowed to work off-site one
day a week or on an emergency basis only.

-- 
Stephanie Bryant
Author, Videoblogging for Dummies
mortaine -at- gmail -dot- com
http://www.mortaine.com/
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