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Subject:Re: perspective on rates From:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:17:07 -0500 (CDT)
PT says:
> a company that offers a really low rate forÂ
technical writers (1) does not value the skill, and (2) equates
technicalÂ
writers with "administrative" and "secretarial" help.
For years, I kept a classified ad that I had cut out of the Boston Globe
taped to my monitor. It was for a "Technical Writer/Sec'y." It was all I
needed to remind myself that I had it pretty good.
(In fact, maybe I'd better mock up a similar ad in PaintShop Pro . . . )
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