RE: Rates (was The Lone Writer)

[JB Foster <jb -dot- foster -at- shaw -dot- ca>]

So true! Tech writing seems to be a jack-of-all-trades within the smaller
companies. I do both illustrations and writing; and couldn't have survived
on, just one, or the other.

Sounds like the other matched pair is - (Web) coding and writing!

Bruce


Keith Cronin wrote:

> This is NOT a sexy gig. Most people - from the top to the bottom of a
> company - simply do not care about this stuff. And many tech writers make
> the mistake of taking that personally. The bottom line is that for most
> companies, documentation is not a profit driver. But other TW-related
> aspects can be. That's why smart tech writers are working their way into
> training, into developing courseware, into marcomm, into Web development,
> proposal writing, etc. Those who are not flexible and/or who have not
> increased and diversified their skills are getting left in the dust.




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