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Re: A step up, a step down

Subject: Re: A step up, a step down
From: Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:20:19 -0500

Perception, Sarah, perception. The people who think documentation is a step down haven't a clue, most of the time, what it is we do. I worked one gig, the writers reported to the head of training. We were definitely a lower species of being in that twit's eyes (she had a Ph.D., but she was a flipping idiot). She did not understand what we did, did not want to understand, there was no explaining to her. Unfortunately, her name is Legion.

Jo Byrd

Kirby_Sarah wrote:

I was discussing my work history with some of the help desk techies. They
were amazed at the variety of technical jobs that I had held in the past
(help desk, computer repair, asst. network admin, programmer, etc). They
wanted to know why I had taken a step **down** to documentation
specialist/technical writer. I want to know, why is it a step down? As a
technical writer, I am being paid more then in my other jobs (admittedly
most of them were during college and I never did know my own worth). I
feel, as a word smith, I have a much more satisfying job that requires me to be more knowledgeable on a variety of subjects and to become an expert on topics that I would otherwise not have access too. It seems to be a more demanding on the gray matter then simply being a master of one domain. Plus once you fix a sentence, it doesn't break again. <g> Any one know why a step down?




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