RE: Hunter Support Group?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

Dori,

I was just thinking about you because you haven't posted in so long.  I was
wondering where you were.  I remember, 10 years ago last September, when I
had my first surgery, my contract was terminated when I had my doctor's OK
to go back to work, around this time of year.  I got a new and great
contract that began the following January.  For my second surgery, I didn't
have a job and I paid for my own expensive insurance out of my savings.
Then I got great contract.  

I just had another great contract that was ended today because "the company
decided to go into a new direction."  They ended the project that the owner
asked me to begin documenting last week and they are bringing in new
software that will replace the work of the IT developers that I started
documenting this week.  I think that the developers will lose their jobs if
the new plans work.  They are not consultants, so this will not be
comfortable for them.  I think that if the developers had documentation to
support their work so people could use their applications (like I was told
they needed last June, when the managers first spoke to me), then maybe they
could have prevented this "new direction."

I think a TW job hunters group is a good idea.  If you set up something in
Yahoo groups, I'll join.

Lauren
 

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> 
> I guess it's time I entertain my enemies and reassure my 
> friends that I've been absent from the list not because I 
> dropped dead, but just because in the middle of July my 
> employers let me know that the Canadian bosses had "decided 
> to go in a different direction" so they no longer needed a 
> technical writer and I was cut loose with five minutes' 
> notice, two months after returning from my disability leave.  
> Six of us went on that day.  Since then I've been working on 
> continuing my recovery without benefit of insurance (who can 
> afford to give up 25% of their unemployment income for the 
> Cobra payments?), dealing with the paralyzing depression, and 
> of course conducting a job search.
>  
> I'm free to relocate on a temporary basis to anyplace 
> (including Florida for the winter); I've worked contract jobs 
> out of town on an extended basis -- it's okay and in fact I'm 
> pretty good at it.  In this itty bitty canal town I can also 
> see some possibility to create a full-time gig by making my 
> talents available to several small businesses right here in 
> the neighborhood.  I've done the freelance entrepreneur 
> thangie with a sign out front and even a rented office and I 
> won't make that mistake again.  
>  
> My problem is getting past the paralysis.  If anybody else is 
> at that point can we form a job hunter support group to keep 
> each other motivated and moving?  And if anybody has info 
> about legitimate home-based writing or transcribing gigs I'd 
> love to hear about them, too.  The major hiring month is of 
> course January, which means that November and December need 
> to be my hardest-hitting hunting months.
>  
> Dori Green
>  
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