"I am not writing or selling a book; I just want to help make yours better."
This is what it means to me to be a Technical Writer. Let's whittle your ideas into clarity. This is where my technical mind is priceless; my diverse background experienced in "pretty much all" (yes, all) of the computer-based technology-related technical fields that make use of "software", as well as my "better than average" vocabulary gleaned from many scientific fields -- my smarts can make you seem smarter than you otherwise would seem. If you're good at what you do but not necessarily proficient in English, I can lend the kind of smarts that will sharpen the focus of your papers, sell your books, get more "clicks" on your headlines, or make your resume the one the company looks at longer and with more interest.
Yes, I really did offer $Roku Inc (ROKU.US)$ support back then -- when the Gen 1 box worked best with an Ethernet cable. I do not operate this business any more, btw.
If you read any of my other columns, you might note that I demonstrated an early proficiency for Science. In high school I was selected as "Science Sterling Scholar," but I did not want to stay in Utah, where I was at the time I graduated. I'd grown up mostly in Florida, liked being around more diverse people, recycling everything, and being in places where women have voice and are respected. Everything I didn't like about Utah was tangentially related to its politics, and its (I think the only appropriate descriptor is "disgusting") wage gap between men and women.
I ultimately switched my major out of a Science degree. The reason I switched is because even though I loved science back then, (and still love it today), most of my schooling years in high school and college took place under the Bush presidencies. If you're anywhere near my age, you, too, will remember that the Bush family (like all Republican politicians old and new) waged war on Science. Grants and science-based funding were cancelled, programs helping proficient students from low-income families were ended, and the investment in people as "assets" completely stopped. Oligarch money -- those rich kids who inherited from their colonialist ancestors -- was all that mattered to those Republican presidents. And we saw it full force, with wealthy parents "buying" their kids way into colleges they would otherwise never have gotten into is yet another reason I have no love and zero "soft spots" for Ivy leaguers and college dropout CEOs.
And the 3 out of 4 grandparents I never met (due to their service of an antifascist "country") back me up on this, even from the grave. It is my right to say whatever I want to say about incompetent, uneducated and fraudulent CEOs, especially when they are the reason my lifetime earnings also so pathetic.
I'm that Native American who lost her job two months after this statistic from April 2020 came out. The former CEO of Intel had the same corrupt politics of those Utah suits whom I disliked. They never liked me, they never respected me, they lied to me and I don't owe them anything.
It's not on me what I've earned; I did not do anything wrong. What companies paid women like me a decade and two decades ago says more about them than it does about me. What U.S.-based companies did and continue to do to all the diverse and culturally different voices and backgrounds who end up in technical fields IS THE REASON the reason for downfall of the US dollar today. The failure of the US economy is DIRECTLY correlated to its lack of investment in diversity -- and due to its oppression of people like me.
5-day losses for an unscientific America that imports more than it can export
I did the cost:benefit analysis way back when I was 19, more than 2.5 decades ago -- and I figured out that as a female -- and as a Native American who could pass as white, the likelihood that I could earn enough to survive with a science degree was about 0.005 percent. What I knew about school was that it was expensive, and that I would need to earn enough to pay off my tuition, books, and all those student fees. The scholarship I'd earned for a year did not actually cover most of my expenses, and I had to work a job in addition to going to school.
Accountancy, with its fascinating spreadsheets software 25 years ago, seemed the degree with the best potential ROI for my money.
screencapture of one of my introductory columns for Moomoo Community NNQ
Accountancy's culmination of intersecting disciplines of Economics, Finance, Taxation, and my favorite -- "Managerial Accounting" was where I eventually settled for the reason explained above in a column that I wrote for Moomoo friends many months ago.
So why no Agent?
Agent forces don't make clarity, they steal equity.
The Principal-Agent Problem is one I wasn't introduced to until my advanced Economics class (R.I.P. H. Kim Craft of the SUU Thunderbirds), but it is a very interesting one, and the basis for my logic.
no matter what career we do we earn much less than white men
When the data scientists include my income and career earnings in the profession of "Technical Writer", the gaps are even bigger. Oftentimes our incomes are so low, our data is thrown out completely, considered "outlier".
This is why I will NEVER hire an agent. I've done enough data science myself to understand that each penny the Agent steals from me hurts me more (percentage wise) than it helps the thieving agency. I am not an outlier. Both of my parents were dead before I was 30, and college dropout CEOs are why.
Nobody I know from my University studies (students or professors) decided to study, teach, major or minor in Accountancy because they "love money" ... Accountancy experts are fierce to see money as a tool enabling an audit of facts that emerge when we "follow the money". Over and over and over again, we see the same tragic result of the white supremacist attitudes that rose to dominate U.S. politics because college dropout CEO never matured beyond a petty, petulant teenager.
https://www.ncai.org/news/podcast-more-than-a-51-cent-problem-native-women-and-the-gender-pay-gap
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