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Subject:Re: Can this career be saved? From:beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com> To:becca -at- di -dot- org Date:Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:53:11 -0700
Becca
Programming skills are a specialty, most tech writing jobs in my area do not
require them. But if an employer specifies something like JavaScript, you're
quite right, you'd need that to apply.
Bee
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
>
> --- On Mon, 6/6/11, beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > A lot depends on your location. Take a look at Dice.com and
> > see what tools
> > are cited in the job reqs in your area.
>
>
> i didn't know about Dice.com - thanks for the reference.
>
> There's only one tech writer job listed for SE Michigan, and that's calling
> for web development skills too, and DreamWeaver - I used a very early
> version of DW, but that was pre-CSS. They also want JavaScript, which lets
> me out; I'm not a programmer. Broadening the description of what I'm
> looking for, they all want programming abilities in addition to tech
> documentation. Is this common?
>
> oh, well. It's a good resource to keep checking!
>
> does anyone here have any feelings about monster.com?
>
> -becca
>
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