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- Subject: Re: Technical Writing...need advice
- Message-ID: <8OCT92.08541953@fedc04.fed.ornl.gov>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 13:54:19 GMT
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- Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER
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- If you're in Buffalo, NY (interpreting people's locations from their mail
- headers is not my best thing), then the Niagara Frontier chapter of STC is in
- your neighborhood. The contact I have listed for it is Kevin Burns, (716)
- 297-1000. (This is apparently CALSPAN Publications, whatever that means.) Or
- you can call the national office, in Arlington, VA, at (703) 522-4114. Your
- local chapter probably has employment listings, and you may be able to make
- contact with people who're doing what you (want to) do.
-
- On a VERY personal note, I have two kids, now adolescents. I was working as a
- technical editor when I got pregnant for the first time. After he was born, I
- came back as a part-time employee. There were some disadvantages -- at that
- time you couldn't work more than half-time, and the benefits were lousy -- but
- it was a good arrangement for me at the time. I went back to full time when the
- second child was about two, for financial reasons. I still think it was a great
- deal for my employers -- and they finally wised up a few years ago and redid
- the part-time arrangements, so that people can now work from 20% to 80% of a
- full-time schedule, and they can get company health insurance (too late
- for me, but that's what I get for having children 10 years before anyone else
- in my cohort). You might investigate the possibility with your current
- employer.
-
- Best of luck!
- Bonnie Nestor
- NESTORM@FEDC04.FED.ORNL.GOV
-
- Disclaimer: Nobody listens to anything I say.
-