{"id":196,"date":"2020-04-05T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/?p=196"},"modified":"2020-04-05T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T14:46:14","slug":"jack-of-all-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/04\/05\/jack-of-all-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack of all trades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was planning a post on the non-writing skills of a good technical writer, but <a href=\"https:\/\/idratherbewriting.com\/blog\/evolving-roles-of-technical-wrters\/\">Tom Johnson at IdRatherBeWriting.com<\/a> beat me to it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>How is the role of the technical writer evolving? It seems we&#8217;re moving away from writing and more towards other roles, such as reviewer\/convener, user champion, editor, publisher, and promoter. However, it&#8217;s difficult to gauge change, especially across different job categories. In some scenarios, writing might never have been why we were hired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the whole thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say 3\/4 of my day-to-day job is spent on non-writing tasks. Employable technical writers always have been (and always will be) flexible and seek ways to add value to the organization where ever they can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning a post on the non-writing skills of a good technical writer, but Tom Johnson at IdRatherBeWriting.com beat me to it: How is the role of the technical writer evolving? It seems we&#8217;re moving away from writing and more towards other roles, such as reviewer\/convener, user champion, editor, publisher, and promoter. However, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/2020\/04\/05\/jack-of-all-trades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jack of all trades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-writer","category-writing","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robsteiner.net\/pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}