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Re: Freelancing Technical Writing

Subject: Re: Freelancing Technical Writing
From: John Garison <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
To: al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:23:19 -0400

I dunno, Al. When I was freelancing (and I'm back at it again </shameless plug>) I had a circle of friends and we all passed leads and jobs amongst each other when something came across our plate that we couldn't handle. I ended up getting a lot of jobs through friends, and vice versa.

Cooperation is sometimes the better game to play than competition. I'd rather have my clients happy by getting their work done even if it's temporarily by someone else than having them grumbling about me not being responsive to their needs.

My 2¢,

John Garison




al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com wrote:

On Friday 21 July 2006 14:05, Al Geist wrote:

This just may be another case of someone using English as their second
language and writing to people who use English as their first language
and the problems that can arise in interpretation.

At risk of starting a flame war. I would just like to say that the

message sent by Anuj was perfectly clear. I just think this is case of
reading a bit more than was intended into the message.

Hi Sean,

I wasn't trying to start a flame war, nor did I think I was reading more
into the message that was intended. Back when I was freelancing
full-time, I would never give a competitor, regardless of where they
lived, critical information about my clients. I don't know of any company
in the world that would foolish enough to give critical customer
information away to their competitors. However, I would gladly help
anyone with problems about tools or techniques, and still do. My coment
about ESL was that sometimes things may look perfectly clear to the
writer, but it may not be as clear to the reader. I believe this to be
the case, which is why I apologized to the original writer if my
interpretation of the original post was not as intended. However, in
reading some of the replies to the original post, I was not alone in my
interpretation. But Sean does bring up a point...would we have reacted
differently if the original writer was from Dallas, or Milwaukee, or
Eugene?

Al

Al


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RE: Freelancing Technical Writing: From: iam nobody88
Re: Freelancing Technical Writing: From: Edgar D' Souza
Re: Freelancing Technical Writing: From: Al Geist
Re: Freelancing Technical Writing: From: Sean Wheller
Re: Freelancing Technical Writing: From: al . geist

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