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In the US, the bogus housing bubble "created" so many new jobs in housing construction, mortgages and real estate that no government stimulus short of a WWII-sized mobilization could ever hope to re-employ all the workers whose jobs disappeared. It made the dotcom look tame by comparison, because it was nationwide and not localized in tech employment centers.
If your idea of a similar frenzy for techwriters means another period in which demand is so great that anyone who can string words together into a sentence can get hired with no experience, then yes, it will take another bogus tech bubble. As with the housing bubble, there was never enough of a self-sustaining market to support such a boom.
Gene Kim-Eng
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On 3/16/2010 6:55 PM McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
Anyway, a lot of construction and renovation
projects are being scrambled in order to get
'em done before the new tax hits. Again/still,
there are not enough skilled trades peope to
go around.
Nothing like that happening for techwriters, though.
Not sure what would create a hiring frenzy for
techwriters, other than another bogus tech
bubble, that is.
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