Re: Job differences

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Generally, my habit is to break down the tasks in our projects
and take as much of the short-term, quick-response "dirty
work" as I can, such as reviewing requests that come in for
doc support, chasing down reviewers, making last-minute 
changes, fixing doc formatting gremlins, generating PDFs, 
doc control uploads, etc.  This lets my writers devote their 
time and concentration to the things that require time and 
concentration, and the "dirty work" tasks are easier to slot 
into all the planning, budget, quality and process meetings 
that constitute much of my "supervisory things."  I've found 
that the high-level aspects of hands-on writing I used to 
enjoy the most become rather burdensome when they have 
to be done at the same time I'm attending a dozen executive 
staff meetings a week, while the "dirty work" tasks now 
actually give me a chance to mentally unwind.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanie Erickson" <serickson -at- infinitecampus -dot- com>


I have convinced my supervisor and CEO that after 4 years of having a
documentation department of one, we need to hire someone else.  With
that, the newly hired person will be doing more writing and I will be
doing more supervisory things, which is great!!  For those of you that
have experienced this, how did you go about breaking your one job into
multiple jobs?  Was there an agreed upon division or was it more like
"the new person can do the things I don't like to do", which is
currently where I'm going.  Any help you could offer would be greatly
appreciated.  



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