RE: Tour of Duty :)

["Dubin, David" <David -dot- Dubin -at- sage -dot- com>]

Melissa and colleagues,
As my signature shows, I work for a global software company (60 countries
with customers). I have been with Sage for eight years and can honestly say
that 80 percent of the software engineers (developers) that were here when I
started are still here.
Perhaps it speaks to the power of the company, or the products, but that is
the case with Sage (formerly Best Software, Inc.)

David B. Dubin, PHR 
Senior Curriculum Developer 
Sage Software 
727-579-1111 x 3356
david -dot- dubin -at- sage -dot- com
Your business in mind.
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Subject: Tour of Duty :)

Hello,

I heard an interesting "statistic" today about software developers. I was 
told that the median amount of time that a software developer stays with one

company is 18 months. That got me curious about what the median amount of 
time a technical writer stays with a company. Does anyone know this, and 
what are the average times the people on this list have worked for one 
company?

Just curious. As I have said before I have been a technical writer since 
2003, stayed a year at a company that basically went to India, did a six 
month contract, and have been at my present, now "permanent", position since

September.

Melissa

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