RE: Paths to Seniority - from technical support to technical writ ing?

Subject: RE: Paths to Seniority - from technical support to technical writ ing?
From: Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
To: 'Gene Kim-Eng' <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>, Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 17:08:29 -0400

Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com] modestly suggested:


> In my case the company got just a little bit bigger.
> After four years as technical publications manager
> with a staff of two production assistants and a string
> of contract writers I left to go start a pubs group for
> another company, and the first company proceeded
> to get a whole lot smaller.
>
> I try never to talk about whether I'm "just that good,"
> except in job interviews and on my own self-review
> forms. The rest of the time I'd rather let others decide
> for themselves without any coaching from me.

We were 35 people when I started, grew to 200, got chopped back to 70,
dwindled to 45... then got bought and trimmed down to..... drum-roll,
please.... 35.

We were never large enough to justify a multi-person pubs group, except in
that brief 200-body phase, but that was killed just as the customer
documentation phase was looming. Drat! I coulda been a poohbah.

On second thought, Whew! Dodged the bullet. :-)

Perspective is everything.

Kevin


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