Re: Techwriting after the boom

[dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com]

France Baril wrote:
> 
> ...I have not had any other job that paid better than technical 
> writing, and I have not seen a field in which it was easier to 
> find a job quickly. I even refuse work...
> 
> Am I lucky or am I just not expecting enough?

I'd suggest that being bilingual puts you outside the pool of "just tech writers" in much the same way that knowledge of a specific industry would do.

I don't mean that any blinigual person can be a tech writer, but if you have all the other qualities and knowledge of a tech writer, then fluency in a second language gives you an additional lift.

That would seem to be particularly true when you live in an area where both of your languages are in regular use and nearly every piece of documentation is required to be produced in both languages.

So you *could* call it luck, assuming you didn't learn the second language and move to Montreal specifically to become a tech writer.  :)  But I'd call it having a set of skills that are well matched to the situation in which you find yourself.

--David 
 
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