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Subject:Re: Too Many Jobs?!?!?!?!? From:Julie Comstock-Fisher <julief -at- PDAINC -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:16:50 -0600
On Thursday, December 03, 1998 2:49 PM, Roger Morency
[SMTP:rogerm -at- ONTARIO -dot- COM] wrote:
> <snip> With so
> many new and efficient ways to communicate, physical location in a
> technology hotbed is not as critical as it used to be. What do the rest of
> you think? Since most of you probably already live on one of the coasts,
> would you even consider moving to a city in the Midwest?
I already do live in the Midwest, and I can tell you from personal experience
that the market for technical writers is good here in Kansas City. I just got
done looking for a job in September/October (found this one :-) and I got
about 75 calls from recruiters, and had interviews every day for 2 weeks. I
could pick and choose which job I took--and I'm a senior tech writer with
outrageous salary demands. :-) There is a lot of development going on here,
and not enough technical people to fill the positions, and an increasing
demand for writers and QA people.
