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Re: Fw: 47. RE: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THI---S

Subject: Re: Fw: 47. RE: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THI---S
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:52:32 -0700


eileenn -at- the-wire -dot- com wrote:

Hi Bruce,

So if I ever have to write marketing (God forbid), sounds like technical marketing would be the way to go.
It's not so bad. Try it. Come over to the dark side....

Seriously, technical marketing has at least two advantages over technical writing.

First, it often pays better, especially if you're on contract. Clients seem willing to pay more for marketing material than for technical writing, sometimes as much as 50% more.

Second, while the marketing budget is often cut during hard times, it's usually cut some time after technical writing is. And even then, it may not be cut as deeply. I don't know how I would have survived in the last two years without some steady marketing working. Until this spring, technical writing jobs were scare for me.

Other points, that may or may not be an advantage, depending on your interests and personalities:

- You get the chance to indulge your typographical inclinations legitimately

- It helps gives you a larger variety of things to do.

For me, these last two are the greatest advantages that marcom offers.

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I didn't see it then:
March until your feet get sore,
You never dance again."
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References:
Fw: 47. RE: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THI---S: From: Eileen Neumann
Re: Fw: 47. RE: Okay all you independent contractors: hit the bricks with THI---S: From: Bruce Byfield

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