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Subject:RE: when is it ok to leave a contract job? From:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:<writingweb -at- gmail -dot- com>, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> Date:Fri, 2 Nov 2012 17:35:54 -0400
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> > That is not "sad." It is part of the field. Entry-level technical
> > writing often includes working with other people's documents
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> You're making a whole lot of assumptions about the make-up of the
> department that I'm talking about, so please don't dismiss what I just said
> as "part of the field." It was a large, poorly run department with
> well-trained, underutilized technical writers.
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I have been at whole companies like that. This was big in the 90s. Some people enjoy it. After being trained and over-utilized for years, some people just want to sit back and rake in the money. 8^D
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