RE: Back to the Dark Ages.

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

At my first tech writing job, I didn't have a desk, let alone a phone or a 
PC, for the first 3 months I worked. (I think I counted 17 different work 
stations I used in the first month.) I carried around my "desk drawer" and 
"book shelf" in cardboard boxes - I even taped cartoons on my "office wall." 
In the meantime, I was given printed pages and spec docs, and edited, wrote 
and re-wrote by hand on the printed pages or on lined paper, then handed the 
mess to the admin to type up.

When I finally got my XT (and a supply of hamster chow to feed the little 
guy inside), I started doing the edits myself in WordPerfect. When I asked 
the admin to show me how to change headers, she said it was too hard for me 
to do and she would do it herself. I later found out she typed the header 
and footer on every single page in multiple documents. I didn't insult her 
by offering to teach her how to do it -- although I _really_ wanted to.

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