RE: Uplifting reading: Why Technical Writing Jobs Are Among the Best Writing Options in an Economic Depression?

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

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> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:02 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
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> Subject: Re: Uplifting reading: Why Technical Writing Jobs 
> Are Among the Best Writing Options in an Economic Depression?
> 
> Sadly I missed the original posting but this caught my eye. I 
> just received notification of a lay off on Monday. As I am 
> searching within my company and outside, I am having one heck 
> of a time with titles. I have had so many through the years. 
> My current official one is Engineering Project Manager, 
> however we call ourselves Information Engineers and that's 
> what our department is called. It's quite a trick trying to 
> job hunt in our industry!
> 
> I'm sure this has probably been discussed and if so, slap me 
> on the wrist to head to the archives, but if anyone has a 
> list of titles to try to search by, I'd appreciate it.
> 

http://www.stc.org/about/press03.asp?ID=1 lists eight titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writer lists seven.

http://www.stc.org/membership/interestedTC01.asp lists twelve.

http://online.onetcenter.org/link/summary/27-3042.00 lists six.

http://www.calmis.cahwnet.gov/file/occguide/TECHWRTR.HTM lists thirteen.

Obviously, there's plenty of overlap in those lists.

By the way, what industry do you work in? Different industries often
give different job titles for positions with the same responsibilities.

Dan Goldstein
Quality Assurance Manager*

*No, it doesn't appear in any of those lists.
























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