RE: Secretary Proofing Manuals?

["Maggie Secara" <maggiros2 -at- home -dot- com>]

Considering the lack of jobs for us as writers right now, I'm starting to look
seriously at taking a secretarial/admin assistant type position--if someone will
have me--just to have a job.  I've done it before, I can do it again.

That admin you're snubbing might be me ;-)



Maggie Secara


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> Asking to help with the manuals was my first step out of
> secretaryhood to being a technical writer.
>
> Yes, it can seem demeaning to get "The Help's" permission before a
> document goes out, but consider me one more vote that you should
> welcome her as a proofreader.  Everyone needs a good proofreader.
> And just maybe she's trying to become your peer, not your boss.
>
> Linnea Dodson
>



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