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Subject:Re: TW's in Massachusetts... From:William Swallow <WSWALLOW -at- COMMSOFT -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:08:23 -0400
I have to concur that the telecommunications industry is BEGGING for
technical writers... a lot's happened since the deregulation of service, and
with the explosion of PCS there's a ton of documentation that needs to be
written. Note that there are many different possibilities here: you can work
for a carrier, a manufacturer, a software house (like me), or
telecommunications consulting firms that dabble in all of the above. Then,
of course, you have the FCC and other government organizations surrounding
all this... it's quite an interesting industry to be in; very fluid in
technology trends.
BTW & FWIW... I do consider Web development to be an extension of technical
writing. After all, 80-90% of it is content and markup. Scripting and
graphic design only makes up a small fraction of what we see on the Web.
Sure, there are tons of sites out there with bells, whistles, gongs and
shloads of graphics and other visual/audio media... but most of that is
recycled within each page of a site - it's the content that is mostly
unique.
Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
Aptis
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phone: 518.433.7698
fax: 518.433.7680
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> -----Original Message-----
> I would have to say that the hottest industries right now
> (for technical writers) are telecommunications and e-commerce.
> These are the types of ads I see the most, and they seem to keep
> increasing in number. Documenting the software that supports
> these industries seems to be the trend, but I'm sure there are just
> as many needed to document the hardware, too. I'm pretty sure
> this is a national trend, but I could be wrong (I looked at nation-
> wide jobs about 6 mos. ago, but things may have changed).
> Hope this helps. Oh, BTW, web development is another hot
> area that many tech writers seem to be getting into, but some
> might argue that this really isn't tech writing.
>
