{"id":291,"date":"2018-01-06T11:37:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2018-03-06T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:37:50","slug":"cnn-technical-writing-is-the-28th-best-job-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Technical Writing is the 28th Best Job in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/2009\/qualitylife\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CNN survey of 50 TOP JOBS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0concluded that\u00a0<strong>Technical Writing is one of the best jobs in America today<\/strong>\u2014 28th best job, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more than that, the CNN survey also concluded that, in terms of\u00a0<strong>\u201cQuality of Life\u201d and low-stress\u00a0<\/strong>working conditions,\u00a0<strong>Technical Writing ranks 5th<\/strong>\u00a0in the USA.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3842\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bestjobs\/2009\/qualitylife\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3842 img-responsive\" title=\"Technical Writer CNN Survey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technicalcommunicationcenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Technical-Writer-CNN-Survey.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Technical Writing is one of the Best Jobs in America today&quot; (CNN)\" width=\"410\" height=\"704\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Technical Writing is one of the Best Jobs in America today&#8221; (CNN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Technical Writers make a median of\u00a0<strong>$67,400 a year<\/strong>, with a top average salary of<strong>\u00a0$99,600<\/strong>, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The number of technical writing jobs in the USA (currently 84,000) is expected\u00a0<strong>to increase by 20%<\/strong>\u00a0in the 2006-2016 period.<\/p>\n<p>So it seems like we\u2019re up and running towards a hopeful future. Once this recession is over I\u2019m sure things will look much better for all technical communicators as the new expansion and the pent-up demand for all kinds of products and services will\u00a0 whip up the demand for communication, information design and documentation to new levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0CNN survey of 50 TOP JOBS\u00a0concluded that\u00a0Technical Writing is one of the best jobs in America today\u2014 28th best job, to be exact. What\u2019s more than that, the CNN survey also concluded that, in terms of\u00a0\u201cQuality of Life\u201d and low-stress\u00a0working conditions,\u00a0Technical Writing ranks 5th\u00a0in the USA. &#8220;Technical Writing is one of the Best Jobs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.techtotalsystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}