Re: Ethics of Jumping To Another Contract Job

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I don't think they're mutually exclusive, but they are not necessarily
the same thing.  Someone hired to format FrameMaker documents
or create  illustrations based on writers' scribblinngs of things
that need to be done to engineers' CAD drawings can become
both "productive" and "up to speed" fairly quickly; a writer who
is going to have to learn the names and idiosyncracies of a couple
of dozen SMEs and PMs, become sufficiently famuliar with one 
or more project schedules to track the progress of projects *and*
do some editing and meeting note translations could be considered
"productive" within a day or two, but I'd be very surprised if that
writer achieved "up to speed" in very much less than a week or two
unless he/she had had previous contracts with us.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Barrow" <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>

> Hmmm...I think that "productive" and "up-to-speed" are mutually exclusive.
> The writers that I hired have been productive from day one by editing
> documents and translating meeting notes into requirements.  They may not
> understand how those documents fit into the big picture, but they're still
> productive.

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