I'm curious to see if anyone here has any experience with this career and could offer advice or even give me a better idea of what the job actually entails. I've recently started looking into this as a career option because it seems like it would be a good fit for me in terms of taking advantage of my academic strengths, work/life balance, the pay is decent, and though I've heard mixed things about the job market, its certainly not the worst option. At least I can say I found fixing up the powerpoints and instruction manuals at my last job much more enjoyable than what I was actually there to do, which was cold-call sales. Then again, I don't think many people actually enjoy cold-calling besides the most extreme extroverts hahaha
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I'm curious to see if anyone here has any experience with this career and could offer advice or even give me a better idea of what the job actually entails. I've recently started looking into this as a career option because it seems like it would be a good fit for me in terms of taking advantage of my academic strengths, work/life balance, the pay is decent, and though I've heard mixed things about the job market, its certainly not the worst option. At least I can say I found fixing up the powerpoints and instruction manuals at my last job much more enjoyable than what I was actually there to do, which was cold-call sales. Then again, I don't think many people actually enjoy cold-calling besides the most extreme extroverts hahaha
My mom did technical writing for compaq before they were bought out by HP and from the little that she told me about what she did it sounded like a lot of it was spell checking manuals and making sure the grammatical logic of sentences made sense. She also said it paid rather well, $25 an hour in the late 80's and early 90's but she was also one of the team's go-to people for getting things done. Not sure how much that may have changed since then but it certainly can be a good option
My mom did technical writing for compaq before they were bought out by HP and from the little that she told me about what she did it sounded like a lot of it was spell checking manuals and making sure the grammatical logic of sentences made sense. She also said it paid rather well, $25 an hour in the late 80's and early 90's but she was also one of the team's go-to people for getting things done. Not sure how much that may have changed since then but it certainly can be a good option
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