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Subject:RE: ADMIN: Don't start down this road From:KMcLauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:39:20 -0500
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Plato [mailto:gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com]
[...]
> That is an extremely narrow viewpoint. People love to find
> scapegoats for their
> problems. As such they will blame anybody other than
> themselves for their
> employment woes. Rather than improve their skills and located suitable
> employment, they point the finger at greedy corporations and
> foreigners who
> dare to work less expensively.
Ahem!.... Is there anybody on this list who works as
a technical communicator in the northern third of
the Province of New Brunswick, Canada? Do any listmembers
KNOW, or KNOW-OF anybody?
Please respond privately, and I'll tally.
My point ( unless dozens of affirmative responses shoot
holes in my contention, but I don't expect any...) is
that I live and work where I do because this is where
the jobs are, and NOT back in the old home town, in the
old home province, where I believe jobs in my niche are
generally unavailable.
That is, I agree with Andrew's observation, and I consider
myself to be a prime example of what a sensible, responsible
person does about such a situation. If you wanna be a
tech writer, you go where the techwriter jobs are. If the
perceived costs (economic, emotional, etc.) of following the
opportunities are greater than the perceived costs of
finding/making a different living (in order to remain where
you now live), then so be it.
You go, or you stay, based on a personal evaluation of the
relative merits.
So, let's hear from those northern New Brunswick techwhirlers
who will prove me wrong. :-)
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