Re: Younger tech writers?

[Joe Malin <jmalin -at- jmalin -dot- com>]

In my company, many of the tech writers are A.K.s, but I work in the 
Silicon Valley. The dot com bust drove many people out of tech writing; 
many more were warned off. We do have some young people, too. Many of 
the oldsters (like me) are on a second career after bowing out of 
engineering, while many of the babies moved directly into tech writing 
after studying engineering in school. I should note that it is extremely 
difficult to be hired as a tech writer here unless you have one of the 
backgrounds; that is, you either need to have studied science, Comp Sci, 
or engineering in school, or you need to have worked as a SW or HW 
engineer, or both.

Joe

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