Why I Turned Down Chances for Promotion in Corporate IT

Alex Kotliarskyi

I was a technical writer for Information Technology for twenty-three years. It is a world that has no secrets from me. At the same time, all those years, I saw myself as a fiction writer, though my own writing happened only at night and on weekends or on the train to and from work. I worked twelve-hour days in IT. And nothing I wrote mattered, ever, to any company, because technical manuals…