Re: Job market and career

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Where are you looking for these jobs?  Since the dot-bomb
hit, there has been a marked reduction of jobs in the internet
and software industries, but there continues to be plenty of
documentation work in aircraft/aerospace, heavy equipment, 
instrumentation, medical devices, etc., the old "brick and 
mortar" industries that provided most of the writing jobs
in the pre-internet era.  The jobs in these fields that get
posted to generic sites like Monster or even to the STC are
just the tip of the iceberg; most are posted to industry-
specific locations where they are more likely to be seen
by writers with the technical backgrounds they require.

Gene Kim-Eng


<linburrows -at- tiscali -dot- co -dot- uk> wrote...
> Hi
> 
> The reason I ask, is that in the searches I have done for Tech jobs, 
> there seems to be very few. From one of the stats sites I used, it said 
> that the number of jobs posted has dropped since last year. The jobs 
> are permanent though, so are contract positions more readily 
> available? 

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