atw: Re: Are you content to be a 'content provider'?




Howard said:
> Respondents, both on- and off-line, shared my frustration that
> their work wasn't being valued for the effort that went into
> the overall effect...

Well it's certainly being valued. If you're getting $30/hour,
that's what it's being valued at. If you're getting $80/hour,
*that's* what it's being valued at.

You might disagree with that valuation because you have your
own view of what your work is worth, but I think that's just life.
Of course we have a better idea of the value of our work--we're
the TW experts! All clients and employers can know is what our
work is worth *to them*. And they're the experts in knowing that.

When you know you've done good work, just savour the inner
glow. That makes up for a lot.

If that's not enough, enter it in the STC Tech Pubs competition
and bsak in the admiration of your peers :^)

> Inventing different names to distinguish different types may be
> a good idea, but not if those names only make sense to those
> with experience of doing whatever it is. (Though I don't have
> time to get into the subject now, I suspect that any title with
> the word 'information' in it is going to be pretty useless.)

True, and when I say I like the term Information Developer I don't
have any illusions that it's going to sweep the globe and improve
our lives. So few people know what a Technical Writer is, I doubt
that an even more obscure term, however apt, will make much
difference.

Stuart

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