CNN Money published their annual Best Jobs in America list. Amazingly, I’m at number 13 (Technical Writer, 23.22% job growth, average salary $57,841. Um, I’m gonna print this out and have a talk with my boss…)
I have to admit, if you like offices and don’t like having the fate of a project resting on your shoulders, if you can string a sentence together, edit your work compulsively, and think software engineers are cool (they’re #1 on the list, incidentally), then technical writing is an okay jig. Better than jobs like fur processor, castrato, match girl, stevedore, and assistant crack whore.
The list shows white-collar bias under the premise that a job must be well-paying and have potential for growth in order to be a good job. It doesn’t take into account things like whiling one’s life away in a cube. Number 25 is “Writer.” One day, I will be demoted.
