This from the NWU

[Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

The NWU sent this out:


     37 Professions to be Offshored

According to UC Berkeley research, the following 37 professions are at 
risk of being offshored. These professions can be telecommuted, which 
means these professions are expected to be offshored. If US workers in 
these professions manage to survive offshoring, they will face either 
lower salaries (due to lower pay for these jobs in Southeast Asia) or 
stagnating salaries (i.e., no raises or bonus, ever) for the rest of 
their lives in that profession. If you are in these fields, consider 
moving into a job that can not be telecommuted. Research paper at The 
New Wave of Outsourcing 
<http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=iber/fcreue>.

   * Computer and mathematical occupations (including technical writing)
   * Paralegals and legal assistants
   * Radiological technologists and technicians
   * Medical transcriptionists
   * Business and finance support
   * Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
   * Cost estimators
   * Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
   * Management analysts
   * Accountants and auditors
   * Budget analysts
   * Credit analysts
   * Financial analysts

   * Insurance underwriters
   * Tax preparers
   * Office support
   * First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative
     support workers
   * Switchboard operators, including answering service
   * Telephone operators
   * Bill and account collectors
   * Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
   * Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
   * Payroll and timekeeping clerks
   * Procurement clerks
   * Brokerage clerks
   * Correspondence clerks
   * Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks

   * Customer service representatives
   * Interviewers (except eligibility and loan)
   * Loan interviewers and clerks
   * Order clerks
   * Human resources assistants (except payroll and timekeeping)
   * Production, planning, and expediting clerks
   * Computer operators
   * Data entry keyers
   * Desktop publishers
   * Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
   * Statistical assistants


As you can see TECHNICAL WRITING is in the queue for being offshore 
outsourced.

I, myself, am taking measures into my own hands and moving in several 
different career paths. I am doing volunteer and paid work as a script 
supervisor for commercials, films, industrials, and PSAs. I think it is 
a normal switch since most TWers are meticulous and detail-oriented and 
take great notes.

Just a little tidbit to think about everyone. "In the year 3535, ain't 
gonna need to tell the truth, ain't gonna need to lie..."

Michele

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Michele

I got out of Babylon, but there was no Zion. No Promised Land.
www.krautgrrl.com



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