"Providing content" vs "writing"

Subject: "Providing content" vs "writing"
From: Tothscribe -at- aol -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:54:28 EST

>You have referred to yourself several times as a
>content writer. I'm not sure what that means

Has anyone ever called themselves a "content provider" and has it worked for them?

I was once strongly advised to put "content provider" on my resume because it was the computerese buzzword for writer and "will get you a much higher salary and way more interest." In reality, I got zero callbacks and one temp agency asking me what the heck it was that I actually did for a living.

My advice - forget about providing content and just be a writer.

Linnea Dodson


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