Thanks for the cheerleading folks. I don't have the last gig (2.5 years) on it, but if you look at my resume you'll see that I'll alternate freelance with "permanent" gigs.
The good news is that I can do just about anything. The bad news is that when you're contracting, they want someone who is really good at one particular thing. Being able to do anything may be what bit me in the ass. For a programmer, I'm a damned good writer, so my manager pretty much had me take over all of the writing duties for the whole team. I'd help other programmers with their design documents. I'd convert requirements and design documents into entries in the user's guide. I wrote (and sometimes gave) tech transfer presentations (where we teach the support folks about the new releases) for pretty much the whole team. My manager said something that led me to believe that he thinks that since I wasn't doing any programming, that may be part of why upper management laid me off. I had pretty much just finished the documentation for the upcoming release, so the company has a while before they come up against the detail that our tech writer, isn't very technical, and is more of an editor than a writer. Maybe they'll hire me back as a contractor. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
