Doing it all and Thanks!

Subject: Doing it all and Thanks!
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:55:20 -0400

<Feeman_Kevin_SC2275 -at- SATGATE -dot- SAT -dot- MOT -dot- COM> wrote:

>I have noticed in 4 out of my last 5 jobs, I have been
>required to "do it all," like it sounds like many people on >this list do. Is that good or bad? I think that being a jack >of all trades is mostly a trade off, being good at a lot of >things but not a 100% expert in one or two areas.

Another way to look at being a generalist is that, because you have a
broader view, your work in any one area is likely to be more informed
than a specialist's. For example, if you do interface design, you might
be more of an asset because you're used to thinking how to arrange any
sort of information.

I don't know whether the trend is good or bad, either, but, as a
relatively new writer, I will say that it suits me. I consider myself
primarily a writer, but the job would be much less interesting if I
didn't get a chance now and then to do layout or interface design. In
fact, the variety is what attracted me to technical writing in the first
place, And it's still a main source of job satisfaction.

--
Bruce Byfield (bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com)
Technical Writer / Job Bank Team, STC Canada West Coast Chapter
h: (604) 421-7189

"Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?"
--Sylvia Plath, "Elm"

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