One of the impacts of the down economy on the technical writing market I thought was going to be more part-time offsite projects
After making the mistake of dropping down to only one employer in 2008/early 2009, I am leery of ever going that traditional route again so I keep myself open to projects I can work from my home office on evenings and weekends.
While the rise of part-time writing project can be a boon to us writers, employers are still struggling with the concept in some circles.
Much of my technical writing career has been spent working in the trenches directly with technical teams. Unfortunately, this means I don’t really know any junior technical writers anymore. Even now, I work on a training team — all great communicators — but not technical writers by vocation.
I’ve seen a lot in my time as a technical writer and if I did give advice to new or junior technical writers, it would be the following:
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