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RE: tool nonsense (gearing up to be a tech writer)
Subject:RE: tool nonsense (gearing up to be a tech writer) From:Jeff Hanvey <techwriter -at- jewahe -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 1 May 2001 09:52:54 -0700 (PDT)
--- John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> wrote:
>Jeff...not to jump on you, but after the first month of being turned
>down becuase you didn't know FM, why didn't you simply learn it?
Well, to be honest, at the time I was living - if you can call it that - on student loans. I was lucky to be able to pay my bills most months. I also did not have a computer that would run FrameMaker (I tried, I had an evaluation version of FM on my PM CD, which I received as a gift).
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