Last day...

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

David & Henry et al.,
 
Yes, I really am a tech writer, but I also  double as a marketing writer so 
on the days I'm doing the salesy stuff I write  pink.  Such is today.  My 
assignment is to write a persuasive sales  letter touting the benefits of 
individual (expensive) disability insurance to  various niche markets on which some 
other contractor has done the  "research".  And today's market is SOFTWARE 
ENGINEERS! 
I really didn't need to read her research... I  kind of know the field.  
 
In my non-remote assignments I am usually  embedded with the IT team, much 
like being embedded in the military if you're a  journalist--you get to learn 
the particulars of their wars, as well as suffer  many of their discomforts.  
And when it's a really good gig you sometimes  get to swim in the Sheik's pool.  
With nerds.
 
So who else lurking out there makes his/her  living this way?  Surely David & 
Henry & I are not the only  ones...  What does Glenn do?  And there's no way 
that Joe Allonby is  the only one of us who has a band (yes, I have a band, 
sort  of)...
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