Re: Tech editing in the hobby domain?

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

Cheryl,

Basically the same comments as most  receive. Hobby products have a 
much lower volume and the manufacturers are more likely to use 
contractors. They usually don't spend a lot of time or effort finding 
the writers, and take the first available.  If you locate the 
manufacturers then you can lobby them with your skills and 
availability.

Scott

At 12:11 PM -0400 9/23/08, Cheryl Wallace wrote:
><lurk mode off>
>Hi everyone. 
>
>I work in software doing technical writing and support.  I crochet 
>as a hobby.   I would like to explore extending my techcomm skills 
>to tech editing in the crochet world  for publishers, manufacturers 
>and designers.  Ideally it would make possible a dream job that 
>would keep me working and loving it (more than I do now) way past 
>retirement age.
>
>Has anyone on the list flirted with combining a hobby with their 
>career?  Any pointers?
>
>Cheryl
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