Re: Big bucks in tech writing
I'll probably stay in tech writing for the rest of my career. Management
would be cool - I enjoy large scale projects and bossing people around
*g*, but only having held jobs where I'm "lone tech writer" I doubt it's
going to happen.
If you decide to, you could parley being a lone writer into a management position very well. Consider for a moment: who sets up the schedule for the project? Who oversees the reviews? For most lone writers,the answer is themselves. Management isn't just about supervising people; it's about taking responsibility for work, too, and most lone writers do exactly that.
Let me ask this: What aspirations do coders/engineers have and is there
a similarity to this thread? Do they want to eventually manage? Or is
the title and responsibilities of Senior Developer (without having to
manage anyone) as much as they want?
I'm not a coder, but my observation is is that most coders want to stay as coders. A good many aren't interested in business, or marketing, or even in meeting deadlines; left to themselves, they'd happily tinker forever. There's often an air of pity, too, in their attitudes to the few coders who make the jump to management, as if these coders have exiled themselves from an elite club or somehow lost something that makes them sepcial.
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