Re: In the Land of the Buttless, the Half-Assed Man is King

["Diane Evans" <diane_evans -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Andrew says, "My only addition is that in the current job market, the 
writers who are staying employed and doing well are those that contribute 
more than 50% to the project. They can contribute technical knowledge to the 
mix, and that significantly raises their value to the organization."

I want to disagree somewhat with this.  I am employed and doing well, but 
don't contribute technical knowledge to the projects I work on.  What I DO 
contribute is a logical mind, one that is able to make order out of chaos.  
I am not afraid to stop a developer and say, "The emperor has no clothes!"  
I may not understand how something needs to be accomplished, but I do know 
how to ask simple questions like "Always?" or "Never?".

Diane Evans
Technical Writer, documenting the Software Development Life Cycle for 
posterity...

Washington State Coordinator, Tombstone Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/washing.html

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