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Bryan Westbrook reported: <<I am essentially a lone writer even though I
work for a large corporation. The company has other writers, even writing
teams, but in my day-to-day work I never interact with any of them and have
only actually met one of them, and, as I said in that other thread, that was
through STC... I was wondering if are there many others in similar
situations?>>
There are enough people in similar situations that STC formed a special
interest group called "The LoneWriter SIG". I've been in a similar situation
when I worked at a federal research center as the only editor, and it can
feel very isolating. You mentioned that you've never met any of these
people, and that's kind of a shame; there's nothing like a support group to
help you through those occasional crises and to help you learn things you
never much thought about. Witness techwr-l, for instance.
I'd recommend that you spend some time looking up your colleagues and
getting to know each other. No need to form a union or split off into your
own department or anything drastic: just get together and sound each other
out on life at AMD. Who knows what good things could come out of this?
--Geoff Hart, geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Que., H9R 3J9 Canada
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