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Subject:Re: Need input for career decisions From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 16 Nov 1995 07:21:24 PST
>My career questions revolve around the other documenters I meet (mostly
>STC members) and the projects that they are involved in. Almost everyone
>I talk to is strictly into software or telecommunications documentation.
>They warn me that I'm backing myself into a corner by concentrating on
>electromechanical hardware and encourage me to make a change.
While it's never easy to find a good technical writer, it's easier to
find one for a software product than a hardware or hardware/software
product. I believe that the bulk of technical writers avoid complex
hardware like the plague, and that the hardware corner of the field
has more opportunity per writer than the software side.
-- Robert
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