RE: Uplifting reading: Why Technical Writing Jobs Are Among theBest Writing Options in an Economic Depression?

["Jon Leer" <jleer -at- leertech -dot- net>]

Sharon Burton commented:
> 
> For those of us who lived thru the last 2 recessions (I got 
> my first tech writing job in 1991), we know that one of the 
> first things that happens is writers are laid off in large 
> numbers. So perhaps if you weren't around in for either of 
> the last 2, it seems writers would be needed.
> 
I experienced those recessions. In 1991, WANG LABS layed off a lot of
people, and the next day brought me and several other writers in as
contractors. That started a thriving contract writing business for me. Then,
in 2001-2, companies layed off lots of personnel but decided to NOT bring in
contractors at all. That killed my work for about 8 months. Right now seems
to be a hybrid. Lots of layoffs of full-time personnel, and some bringing in
contractors, but with some hesitancy.

Jon Leer 

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