RE: how bad is the job market?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
 
> Postings like this have always been there, even at the soaring heights
of
> the
> dotcom era; you just didn't notice them then because there was no
reason to
> except for comedy relief.

Gene is right. These kinds of absurdly low "opportunities" have existed
for as long as I've been in the profession. I remember many years ago
when I was an independent contractor (and doing software tech writing
for $40-50/hr.), local company Quark (yes, that Quark) advertised for
tech writers to work on its first Windows version of QuarkXPress -- for
$12/hr. 

That's when I vowed never, ever to use that product. :-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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