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

["GeneK" <gene -at- genek -dot- com>]

The current circumstance was the norm 30 years ago when 
I began working as an engineer.  The 80's saw a relatively
gradual increase in hiring of "non-technical" technical
writers, which then skyrocketed (at least in my part of 
the country) during the 90's.  My guess is we're not 
permanently returning to the 70's, but we're also not 
going back to the 90's, and when the economy recovers things will be more or less like they were in the 80's,
which weren't all that bad a time for technical writers.

Gene Kim-Eng


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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:07:01 -0400 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.

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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