Re: Help me keep track of the time I spend writing, with meetings, and with Graphics.

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Al Geist wrote:
> If your freelancer is taking 5-10 times longer to create a document than you
> do, then you have to ask yourself if you need a new freelancer. I had one
> that took forever to finish a doc, whined all the time he was doing it, and
> turned in garbage that required a lot of editing. He's gone and the person
> who took over his work has finished his projects and several others in the
> same time frame and writes better than I do. ...

One of our writing managers was having trouble getting anything out of 
one of the writers. She came in one Saturday to do some work, and 
brought her ten-year-old daughter along. Because her daughter was bored, 
mom gave her something to do--the work that the writer had not been 
doing. In one morning the ten-year-old accomplished more than the hired 
writer had done in four months!
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