Re: Tech editing in the hobby domain?

["Cheryl Wallace" <cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com>]

Thanks for your input, Scott.  I'm friendly with a few independant designers 
so I'm hoping that will open a door or two.  I'm not expecting to give up my 
day job any time soon.


Cheryl Wallace
Support Services
CostLink Systems Inc.
514 879 1414
866 879 1414 (Toll-free)
www.costlink.com

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From: <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
To: "Cheryl Wallace" <cwallace -at- costlink -dot- com>; <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Tech editing in the hobby domain?


> 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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