hiring tech writers

[cellio]

The company formerly known as MAYA Viz is currently looking for one or two technical writers to work on end-user and system-administrator documentation and training materials. This is interesting, cutting-edge visualization/collaboration software, not some boring "document version N.0 of $decades_old_package" job. There'll be a mix of commercial and military applications. We're in Pittsburgh and not set up for remote work; sorry to my friends in other cities.

I'll be happy to talk with folks and pass on resumes. I might get a finder's fee if we hire you (I'm not sure how that works yet; it's new), and if that happens I'll do something nice for you, but my main motivation is that I want to work with good people.

My email address is in my profile.

Comments

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Well, Sallie would need to find a job too... and we'd have to first repair, and THEN sell, the existing house. (Though we'd probably make an insane capital gain by selling it... I think the land alone has doubled in value in the last 4 years!)

Honestly, I'd rather work at an office in a "collaborative and interactive" work environment. I do my best when I can bounce ideas off of other people. Which probably explains a great deal of why my past 8 years on the job have sucked as much as they have.

[cellio]

Though we'd probably make an insane capital gain by selling it...

I suspect you could sell your house for enough to buy two or three comparable houses up here. :-)

Honestly, I'd rather work at an office in a "collaborative and interactive" work environment. I do my best when I can bounce ideas off of other people.

Same here. I like being able to bounce things off of coworkers. I like being pulled into the occasional meeting just because I was walking by a conversation in front of a whiteboard. This can go too far -- typical cube farms are way too noisy and disruptive, for instance -- but I'm not interested in being a professional hermit.

So what kind of job would Sallie be looking for? :-)