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Peter Swisher wrote:
> You're preaching to the choir.
>
> Problem is, anyone who has not been directly and negatively affected
> by the economy, will usually pass over the first point and remember
> the second point in the ITAA report you referenced:
> "<snip> ... the number of newly created jobs exceeds the number of
> displaced IT software and services workers, resulting in a net gain
> by 2008. The job creation in the other sectors helps absorb the
> displaced IT software and services jobs throughout the economy."
>
> So, you have from late-1999 to 2008 to tranistion from tech writing
> to these newly created (service) jobs. I think you'll find
Hamburgler
> University quite enlightening.
Just pointing out that the subject was the economic climate for the
technical writing industry, specifically, not the economy in general:
the interviewer had the
> audacity to tell me that
> the technical writing industry was not in a
> recession so wondered why I
> hadn't worked much last year.
I don't know how many people will be flipping hamburgers instead of
doing TW (presuming that's what your reference was intending to
convey), but the TW does seem to be picking up a bit -- not much,
though. Whoever said the TW climate was good was probably speaking
about the economy in general, as someone else pointed out.
The offshoring advocates (and others) seem to think that down the line
and fairly soon, the savings that companies have made through
offshoring will be reinvested and mean new jobs here. We shall see.
There's also no reason to believe that a forecast is necessarily going
to be accurate. It's entirely possible that TW jobs will return in
full force. There's just no way to tell for sure.
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www.granatedit.com
Technical Editing and Writing
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