>>Why do I stay? I have almost total control over the product. I'm not going to get that kind of freedom in a larger company. What interests me in consulting is keeping the freedom but getting decent pay for it. Of course, I still won't have benefits, but my husband has excellent insurance so that's not so bad.
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>>-Michelle
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>Are you telling me that you are the ONLY person that works on an application that sells for $30K... no Doc people, no QA people?
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>UG.... I work on a project, the AP sells for about $20k-50K (depending on the size of the comapany.)
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>We have 5 programmers, 3 QA, and 2 DOC people. Also, we have a Project/Group Manager who does the Project and manages the Trakker issues.
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>Like you said, how can you sell an ap for that much with lousy DOC?
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>Actually, our help won awards from technical writer associations, etc.
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>BOb

There are two programmers here, Bob and me. He does work on version 5, which is the one currently trying to be sold. Version 6 I've done completely by myself so far, and it will probably stay that way since Bob is working on a Taxi Manager and internal programs. I wrote most of the docs for 5. I'll write all the docs and the help for 6. I'm also tech support. Granted, we only have 5 customers, but they tend to call a lot with the software being so buggy.

We've got my boss, the VP, who is the salesperson. Thank goodness I don't have to take care of that end!

I personally wouldn't sell version 5. But the company needs income to support the development of 6.

-Michelle