RE: Certification (was: Re: Hostility Towards Whatever)

Subject: RE: Certification (was: Re: Hostility Towards Whatever)
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:41:22 -0700 (PDT)


> There's no reduction implied. You are free to be a technical
> writer without the certification and you are free to hire
> technical writers who are not certified. This isn't a license,
> just a certification.

Yeah but any respectable tech writing certificate will be heavily
technology-specific. Therefore the next time the technology shifts
slightly you will become trapped by your certification. Like the C++
gurus who can't get hired for Java jobs, or the MSCEs who can't get
Unix sysadmin jobs.

Mike O.

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