RE: state of TWers

["Dia Blankenship" <dia -at- teknolutionary -dot- com>]

> <Bal said:>
>
> I view the economy as going through a very healthy, much needed sanity
> check.
> Over the past 3 years, I often told my wife that I was amazed at
> the way so
> many
>  people bought into all the dot.coms that lived off the money of investors
> and
> viewed profit as some distant holy grail.  I wondered whether it was a
> pyramid
> scheme run amok.
>
> I couldn't agree more.

And I second that.  Let's face it, we've been working in the wild west of
industries, essentially.  When everyone wanted railroads crisscrossing the
U.S., it was a good time to be in the steel business.  But eventually,
people started actually demanding quality (of all the nerve!)  This is
nothing new.  The industry's maturing.

I must say, though, I picked one *^%# -at- * of a time to decide to back off
programming and return to tech writing!  I swear, I can't spend one more day
staring about several thousand lines of code in search of a comma that
should've been a semi-colon!  (Yes, as a tech writer I may still be looking
at a lot of both, but if I miss the occasional differentiation, it doesn't
stop the source code from compiling!)  These are the choices we make...  ;-)

-D


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