Re: #5 on the list of Low Stress Jobs

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

How about that. So those jobs I had where I was working 75 hours a week because the help system had to be burned on the gold master CD on Friday the same time as the software product, and the engineers were still making changes to the UI on Wednesday of that week...gee, I never realized how stress-free my life was. Don't I feel silly.


--- On Thu, 10/15/09, Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> wrote:

> From: Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>
> Subject: Re: #5 on the list of Low Stress Jobs
> To: "Julie Stickler" <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com>
> Cc: "Technical Writing" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
> Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7:12 PM
> 
> This is the same CNN survey that said that the number of
> tech writing 
> jobs would grow 20% a year for the next ten years, making
> it the 28th 
> best job in the country.
> 
> I have my doubts.
> 
> Laura
> 
> 
> Julie Stickler wrote:
> > Over on CNN today they had a list of 10 low stress
> jobs.  Since I'm
> > always looking for ways to cut my stress levels, I
> clicked through to
> > read the story.  Imagine my surprise when Number
> 4 is 'software
> > developer', and number 5 is 'technical writer' and
> number 8 is
> > 'software architect.'  I always thought that
> deadline pressures
> > equalled stress.  But what do I know?
> > 
> > "% who say their job is low stress: 56.4%
> > The proliferation of technical products in all parts
> of our lives,
> > from iPods and HDTVs to medical devices and high-tech
> manufacturing
> > equipment, means there is huge demand for those who
> can translate tech
> > talk into understandable language. Though tech writers
> have deadline
> > pressures, they can work fairly independently, have
> flexible hours and
> > can often work from home."
> > 
> > http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2009/moneymag/0910/gallery.bestjobs_leaststress.moneymag/5.html
> >
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