Anonymous request for help!

[geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA]

 Long ago, I offered an "anonymous remailer" service to
 members of copyediting-l and techwr-l: the idea is that
 sometimes people want to get answers to questions that
 might make their employers, colleagues, friends, etc.
 uncomfortable. (Anyone can do this for you--I'm not the
 official reposter--but I _did_ volunteer.)

 Here's one such request:

 ************************************
 Hello all--

 Friday afternoon seems the right time for questions like
 this.

 If you were a tech writer who had impressed your managers
 enough to be able to basically write your own job
 description for your next position, what would you choose?
 Moving to manage your group?  Pulling away from writing to
 do research on other technologies and media related to tech
 writing?  Would you just want to stay a tech writer?
 What--if anything--would you avoid?

 Thanks in advance for any advice or ideas you can offer...

 *********************************

 _Please_ send a copy of your response to me so I can
 collate it for the anonyme (I may be unable to
 monitor the list every day next week, and thus could
 miss some responses); feel free to post a copy to the
 list as well, because I'm sure others will be
 interested too.

 --Geoff Hart     @8^{)}     geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
 Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.

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