RE: FWD: Losing my profession?

["Diane Evans" <dianee -at- lockstream -dot- com>]

David wrote:

> I feel like my timing for entering the tech writing
> profession kinda sucks.

One of the advantages of experience is perspective. So, in my arrogance,
let me spout some:

Bruce wrote:

> Yes, everything is less rosy in the high-tech world compared to fourteen
> months ago. However, the job market is still reasonably good - I'd say
> it was about the same or slightly worse than in 1996, when I started
>writing full-time. Or, to put it another way: for every six or seven
> jobs last year, there's one or two this year. Although there's a
> decline, that still translates into a lot of jobs.

I have done a lot of job-hopping in the last year.  I really do love
short-term assignments.  But I have found that even though the number of
tech-writing jobs has declined, there is still a great need for us.  I was
unemployed for six weeks this year -- but two of those weeks I was in the
Caribbean.  When I got back, I was employed within two weeks, and had to
"blow off" recruiters for another three weeks.

Diane Evans
Technical Writer
Lockstream






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