Re: What's next after tech. writing

[Len Olszewski <saslpo -at- UNX -dot- SAS -dot- COM>]

In article <19960605 -dot- 104723 -dot- 417727 -dot- NETNEWS -at- VM -dot- SAS -dot- COM>, Henry Crews
<Henry_Crews-AHC001 -at- email -dot- mot -dot- com> writes:
|> I'm a new tech. writer and new to this list.  Technical writing is not my
|> first job choice but my new position offered good experience and a good
|> raise.  I was wondering what career areas are available for a person to move
|> on to with technical writing experience?

You could be a technical writing group manager, a project leader, or do
tech writing as a consultant. You could become a tools specialist at
your company, and maintain your format styles, SGML database, authoring
system installations, and so on. You could become a publishing system
integration expert, and put together complete publishing systems for
people. You could work in book sales, or publications marketing. You
could become a publications or text DB administrator, an electronic
production specialist who does layout and design, a compositor or
typesetting composition specialist.

You could start writing novels, too. 8-)

Cordially,
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Len Olszewski           My opinions; you go get your own.
saslpo -at- unx -dot- sas -dot- com

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