Desperately Seeking Documentation?

Interrobang asks: "I'm a longtime Slashdot reader, who isn't a programmer. I'm one of programmers' symbiotic (parasitic?) life-forms -- a freelance technical writer. I'd like to know from the programmers, IT managers, and similar others in the crowd: If you were searching the Internet for a technical writer, what kinds of search terms would you use? What sites would you check? Where and how would you start looking?"

How to get technical writing jobs...

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Post a query to "Ask Slashdot"
2. Wait for the jobs to roll in
3. Profit!

If I were looking for a technical writer...

[mwvdlee]

...I'd probably Google for "a life".

But seriously, you want us to write your C.V. too?

Re:Find a tech writing 'guild'

[Anonymous Coward]

Hopefully you can find a guild that doesn't have unreasonable entry requirements [slashdot.org].

Put up posters on college campuses

[dheltzel]

Since the CS students are outsourcing their coding to others, it's likely that lots of students will want to outsource their "documentation" as well. Can you do book reports and research papers as well?

Re:First mistake

[antifoidulus]

I thought an Interrobang was where you had sex while speaking in nothing but questions.