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Re: Client woes: a question to ask yourself...

Subject: Re: Client woes: a question to ask yourself...
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:57:35 -0800

Amanda M. Jervis wrote:

Documentation and training (and all other kinds of technical writing) are
integral to the operations of the businesses in which we work. To ignore
that fact, and to pretend that we need not be concern with the business of
our employers, is as short-sighted as those business executives who think
documentation and training are expendable parts of their bottom line (and
who therefore cut doc departments and layoff writers).


It also means that (whether you know it or not), you are very likely making the decision to stay a Junior or Intermediate Writer. There's nothing wrong with that - I'm certainly not going to condemn someone who doesn't want to climb the corporate ladder or is happy in what they're doing now - but you should make the decision consciously instead of limiting yourself by accident.

Even a Senior Writer or Manager needs some business smarts.

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Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604.421.7177

"I have lead a good life, careful and artistic,
Now I shall have an old age, coarse and anarchistic."
- Utah Phillips,


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