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RE: Think outside the box - Re: A suspected can of worms
Subject:RE: Think outside the box - Re: A suspected can of worms From:"Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:07:01 -0400
Mike O. wrote:
> I think the lesson here is that companies have laid off lots of domain
> experts, or are not hiring many domain experts, so they now are
> enjoying the luxury of hiring domain experts as technical writers. In
> bad times, lots of people work 'beneath' their level of training.
>
> When (if?) the domain experts are once again employed in their fields,
> I expect you'd see ads again for plain-vanilla tech writers to document
> the experts' output.
The question you have to ask is, which is the exceptional circumstance? Is
the existence of substantial numbers of plain-vanilla technical writers the
normal state from which the current situation is a deviation. Or was the
existence of substantial numbers of plain-vanilla technical writers during
the tech boom a deviation from which we have now returned to normal.
Since the tech boom is universally acknowledge to have been not only a
classic boom, but also a classic bubble, I think it is only reasonable to
assume that the current state of things is the norm, and the state of things
in the 90's was the deviation.
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