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The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s “Occu­pa­tional Out­look Hand­book, 2002-03 Edi­tion, Writ­ers and Edi­tors”, is rec­om­mended read­ing for those con­sid­er­ing tech­ni­cal writ­ing as a pro­fes­sion.
Some of the main points high­lighted in the hand­book make inter­est­ing reading:

The demand for qual­i­fied tech­ni­cal writ­ers is con­stantly grow­ing. For every soft­ware appli­ca­tion or tech­nol­ogy prod­uct that’s devel­oped, there’s an instant need for accom­pa­ny­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion. In a global mar­ket increas­ingly depen­dent on high-tech prod­ucts and ser­vices, it’s vir­tu­ally guar­an­teed that tech­ni­cal writ­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties will never run dry.
Tech­ni­cal writ­ing may be your ideal […]