A Career in Technical Writing: Life as a newbie
Bullet points Struggling to make the wrong tool work for a job can add months to a project FrameMaker is good for long technical documents PageMaker is good for sending a newsletter to your Aunt Fanny...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Workaround
Bullet Points A workaround is a procedure designed to overcome a shortcoming of a program or piece of equipment. Sometimes the tools dictate the format of your work Projects tend to go better if you...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Last Contractor Standing
Bullet Points Many people turn contract positions into full-time opportunities Contractors are often treated much differently than employees Corporate environments continually change and evolve Mergers...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Reversals
Bullet Points Adjusting to corporate life can be difficult, especially if you have a tendency to curse A cubicle is a terrible place to receive a lecture The best way through a work crisis is to do...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: End games
Bullet Points Sometimes all your work can be erased by a business decision Companies will never pay technical writers as well as programmers Take pride in your work, even if it never quite comes out...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: End of Part One
End games concludes the first part of my series on a career in technical writing. The journey so far has taken us from my beginning as an outsider looking for his first job in the career through to the...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Beach Time
Bullet Points Beach time and bench time refer to paid or unpaid time off between consulting contracts When you are a contractor, it is best to take initiative and find other options no matter how much...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: By the time I get to Phoenix
Bullet Points The more relaxed you are, the better a job interview tends to go Subject knowledge is great, but tools skills help you land jobs A service level agreement (SLA) is a document that...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Bright Lights, Big City
Bullet Points Megacorporation is a term popularized by the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson. It denotes a multi-national corporation that has become so large that in many cases it is its own customer...
View ArticleA Career in Technical Writing: Amanda
Bullet Points Third-party personnel recruiters work with companies that are searching for one or more employees. Third-party recruiters work on a commission basis, with the commission typically...
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