<snip>Do you get to travel as a technical writer? For what purposes do you travel? Do you wish you could travel more? Or less?</snip>
Back in 2000 I travelled every week to a mine site and processing plant to document nickel and cobalt extraction procedures - would fly in 6:30 Monday morning, fly out 5:30 Friday afternoon. It was just over an hour's flight and the company put me up in a hotel in town (60kms from the site) and the company bus would take me to/from work each day. I did this for 3 months, and the novelty wore off pretty quickly! The upside was that the company paid me my hourly rate for ALL the travel as well as my work hours - home to airport, airport hang time, flight time, taxi time, bus time. It added about 15-20 hrs to the invoice each week. Since 2001 I've travelled on my company's dime (i.e. mine! but as a business expense) to STC, WritersUA, and AODC conferences each year. I only do one a year (unless they're close together) as the cost of travel from Australia gets a little high. Fortunately I've been able to add in side trips to each of these trips - sometimes work-related (like dropping in to NZ to see the AuthorIT people); sometimes not. No conferences this year though as we're moving 320kms away from Perth. However, my travel will increase very soon as I'll be working remotely from there, with 1 or 2 days back in Perth each week or so to do face-to-face stuff with my clients. I like Donna's arrangement - work 2-3 weeks from home, then do a week in the office. I'll have to run that option by my clients and see what they think. Both my current main clients do a LOT of travel, but none for me. One client has offices in Houston and Johannesburg, and clients throughout Australia, South Africa and the US. The other client has clients throughout the world, with quite a number in Canada; in fact, one of the staff is off to Russia next week. Rhonda Rhonda Bracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybertext.com.au AuthorIT Certified Consultant ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. DITA West 2007--Use a discount code of "TECHCOMMPROS" to get a discount rate of $200 off the $900 registration price. http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/dita2007.shtml _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
