RE: Think outside the box - Re: A suspected can of worms

["Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Mark Baker wrote:
> 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.

The exceptional circumstance is the oversupply of domain experts,
caused by the poor economy. 

It may turn out that employers' new 'demand' for SME tech writers is
really a supply-side phenomenon, which will dissipate when the market
corrects the oversupply.

As I understand it, economic laws will eventually return an oversupply
to an equilibrium, *one way or another*. That's the theory anyway.

No, I don't think the boom is coming back, at least not in the same
form. But the current downturn is causing a classic shakeout for
technical writers; I don't know what the job market will look like when
the downturn is completed.

Mike O.

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