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Subject:Re: A Preponderance of Females From:Win Day <winday -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Apr 1996 07:13:58 -0400
At 11:48 AM 4/11/96 -0700, Susan W. Gallagher wrote:
<SNIP>
>* Writers who lag behind the changes in technology cannot demand
> high salaries. Writers who have not had the opportunity, or
> taken the initiative, to learn to write for online, for example,
> find their job selection limited and their salaries low.
Spoken like a true software documenter!
I haven't learned how to write online yet. I don't write for the software
industry, I write about refineries, and chemical plants, and process
control, and engineering in general.
I earn more per hour than I EVER did as an engineer, get more respect, and
have more control. I have more work right now than I can handle, and just
had to turn down a large contract because I simply didn't have the time (and
yes, I referred it to my local STC job bank!).
Win
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Win Day
Technical Writer/Editor
Email: winday -at- idirect -dot- com
