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As for me, I am my companyâs first and only technical writer.
If I want to climb the âladder,â I have to make one first.
From: vwritert -at- gmail -dot- com [mailto:vwritert -at- gmail -dot- com] On Behalf Of John G
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 10:17 AM
To: Amitha
Cc: Cardimon, Craig; TechWR-L
Subject: Re: Yet another title I found: "Content Designer"
Sure beats Font Fondler ...
I've had lots of titles, and I prefer the basics. Right now I'm Lead Technical Communicator which is just fine. Right up there with Lead Technical Writer.
I don't go so much for the esoteric or exotic. And I really don't like Roman numerals (Technical Writer II e,g,).
More telling than a single title is the "ladder" of titles -- from Associate (better than Junior) Technical Writer up to Principal (or Consulting) Technical Writer.
Associate TW --> TW --> Senior TW --> Lead TW --> Principal TW
What does your company's ladder look like?
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Amitha <aarakka -at- ncsu -dot- edu<mailto:aarakka -at- ncsu -dot- edu>> wrote:
Cool. I've worked in an organization that called us "information engineers."
-Amitha
> On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:21, "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com<mailto:ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>> wrote:
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> I came across an ad for "Content Designers" that had the phrase "technical writers" in parentheses.
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> Cool. I had no idea I was a "content designer," too. I'm happy being a technical writer.
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> Cordially,
> Craig Cardimon
> Technical Writer
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