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RE: Alone from the start (was: Documentation planning)
Subject:RE: Alone from the start (was: Documentation planning) From:"Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:18:02 -0800
LOL, if I had waited for that, I'd still be waiting! I've only ever been on
a team of tech writers (more or less experienced) uhm, twice? No, three
times. None of them exactly close to the beginning of my career. And I
don't think I'd have gotten onto any of them as a beginning writer.
You have to learn somehow, and you can't wait around if this is something
you want to do, and assuming you have any facility for the gig at all.
Sometimes being thrown into the deep end is just the only way.
Maggie Secara
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milan Davidovic [mailto:shl_ctf -at- yahoo -dot- ca]
> --- Syed Ahmed <SAhmed -at- DKSYSTEMS -dot- com> wrote:
> > My second tech writing project was a contract
> > position where I was the lone
> > tech writer with a company that had absolutely no
> > existing documentation or
> > specs, aside from the application itself...
>
> Has anyone on this list been the lone writer on their
> *very first* job (i.e. working in-house) or project?
> If you had to do it again, would you still plunge in
> or would you wait for a gig that put you in the
> company of other more experienced writers?
>
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