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Subject:Re: Question from a re-virginized newbie From:beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> Date:Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:02:46 -0800
I'm a bit late chiming in on this, but I want to go back to the original
question, because I think no one has considered the obvious. Mr. Webster is
going to need a job!
>My question is as follows: I have a limited amount of $ to spend on
training, so given where the industry is headed, what utilit(ies) training
should I pursue?
My advice would be to look at all of the Technical Writer job listings you
can find for your area, and see what skills are most in demand - then train
yourself in those.
In Silicon Valley, it's Madcap Flare and DITA, usually XMetaL/Trisoft. I
have both of those skills and get recruited a lot, so I know those two are
at the top of the TW job requirements list here.
But the popular software in your area might be FrameMaker/RoboHelp or just
plain Word. Check it out before you commit to training on any particular
tool.
HTH.
Bee
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> wrote:
> Yeah, I know.
>
> > On Feb 26, 2014, at 12:31, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > MS didn't eliminate the need for docs. They just eliminated the docs.
> >
> > Gene Kim-Eng
> >
> >
> >> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Scott Turner <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
> wrote:
> >> Oh, you mean like Microsoft did with it's Office suite?
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