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My Journey as a Technical Writer

After juggling through multiple jobs starting from sales to mainstream content writing, I finally embarked on Technical Writing in the year 2011. While I was working as a content writer in the year 2009, and was thinking about switching to Technical Writing, the words technical and writing seemed rather contradictory to me. Technical Writing seemed more apt for technologists, rather than for hapless people from liberal arts background. However, after a detailed research about the profile, I was finally ready for the LEAP OF FAITH. The Stepping Stone It all started down South. I grabbed my first Technical Writing job in IXL India in Chennai after completing a three months Technical Communication certificate from KBuffer in the city. Being a startup and a core IT company, my experience in IXL was full of new challenges and varied learning opportunities. Other than getting the scope to apply my language skills, I obtained extensive exposure to software development methodologies