RE: Career paths of lone technical writers

["Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com>]

Career path?  There's a career path?!  Sure, you can become Lead Writer of
your team of 1.  Then hey, you could be Documentation Manager--of your team
of 1.  As long as they give you a raise!

LOL, I'm sorry, it's just that after 20 odd years of nearly always being the
lone writer--in company after company that downsizes, goes out of business,
or leaves town, I just can't help but laugh.  My path has been mostly a
watery one, in the sense of treading water.  As long as I have interesting
work and make decent money, I'm fine. And then there are those tedious long
patches of Dead Marshes in between.

The only path I've ever noticed for a writer is one that eventually leads
away from writing into things like web design, or programming ... or selling
vaccuum cleaners :) So it all depends on what you want to do, where you want
to go, and how much you want to put into getting there.  I guess.


Maggie Secara



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malone, Jay Ms., RCI - Vienna
> [mailto:jmalone -at- ResourceConsultants -dot- com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:56 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Career paths of lone technical writers
> 
> 
> My upcoming annual review has me pondering my career path.  
> If you are or have been the lone technical writer either for 
> a project (I am now) or for a company (I have been), have you 
> found it career-limiting? In general, what's been your career 
> path: mostly vertical or lateral?  
> 

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