Re: Advice for a New Tech Writer
My advice is to find a job where there is a substantial tech writing team
already in place. Most importantly, look for a strong mentor within the
company
A counter-suggestion: Strike out on your own. You'll probably make lots of mistakes (I sure did), but you'll learn more in a year than you'd learn at a company with established writers. By yourself, you'll learn how to make estimates, schedule projects and structure and design your documentation. At the end of a year, you'll be competent to handle just about any tech-writing job you come across. By contrast, in a company with establish writers, at the end of the year you'll probably still be the junior writer, with responsibility for almost none of these things.
The point being: it depends on the sort of person you are. For some people, finding a mentor undoubtedly works. For others, being an independent is the way to go.
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