RE: Question about eLance

["Roy Jacobsen" <rjacobse -at- microsoft -dot- com>]

Well, wouldn't you say that some people who call themselves technical
writers are worth about $10 to $20 an hour? (In some cases, that would
be generous.)

Part of it has to do with what the people using the phrase "technical
writer" mean by it. In the cases mentioned, they likely think a
techwriter is little more than a typist with a technical vocabulary, or
a "document-prettier-upper".

But another part of it is the value of the work to the person paying for
it. C'est la vie.

Roy M. Jacobsen
Senior Editor, Documentation
Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions
One Lonetree Road
Fargo, ND 58104-3911
USA
roy -dot- jacobsen -at- microsoft -dot- com

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

-----Original Message-----
From: Swallow, William [mailto:WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:14 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Question about eLance

>That is truly sad! Not so much that you are losing out to the low
bidders,
>but that people bid themselves out that low to begin with. It makes me
sick
>to see people charging such rates for technical writing. No wonder tech
>writers complain they are low-balled for salaries...

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