STC WDC Blog

Thanks to Richard Mateosian of the Berkeley Chapter for allowing me to use much of his text below. 12/7/09: Updated membership details. CKK

STC has announced its dues structure for 2010, and for many of us it
amounts to a significant increase.

The questions we all have to ask ourselves are

• Is STC worth the cost, given my situation and financial priorities?
• If so, how do I make STC fit into my budget?
• If not, how do I continue to take advantage of my STC network?

For me, the answer to the first question is yes, but you have to
answer it for yourself. STC offers some points worth considering at
here. They have added new membership benefits recently, so you might want to check them out.

To help fit STC into your budget, STC has provided a Gasic membership and a Gold membership. The basic membership includes online publications and these other benefits. You can buy a chapter memberships for $25 a chapter and SIG memberships for $10 a SIG on top of the basic membership. The Gold membership includes many more benefits. STC provides a
plan that enables you to pay for your membership in four monthly
installments.

STC has also set money aside from one of their scholarship funds to
help a limited but substantial number of underemployed members renew.
They have not yet posted the details of these “recovery packages” on
stc.org, so keep your eyes open for that.

If you don’t rejoin, I’m afraid you’ll have to pay a little extra to
come to meetings, but you are still part of our community. You don’t
have to be a member to receive announcements or see many of the jobs on our job board, though some are open to STC WDC members only. A good
network is especially important during hard times, so keep coming to
our meetings.

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