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I hate house-cleaning. Am I good at it? Darn right. When I feel like it, I
can get a month's worth of dishes hand-washed in about half a day (and that
includes time for reading the Saturday paper and grocery shopping).
Vacuuming? The whole house (cat hair and all -- I even vacuum lamp shades)
in about an hour. Window washing? Ask me for my special window-washing
technique.
Writing? I like it, it's fun -- de-mangling a sales proposal, clarifying an
SLA, formatting and font-fondling a procedures document, finding holes in
requirements, creating a Word template from scratch that helps green
developers or system architects to give me the basics so I can whomp it up
into something usable... it's all good. I could do it all day... oh. Wait. I
do.
We are finally documenting developer reference guides for all our little
applications (did someone say 1980?) because I helped to make a template the
developers can use to scratch together their processes in the right order
and with the right content (and also because their manager said to).
You might be good (even VERY good) at writing procedures, but unless you
also enjoy it, you're going to put it on the backburner until you HAVE to do
it, or you'll hand it over to someone else.
Karen Black in Toronto, thinking about sacrificing some disposable income to
hire a cleaning person again -- there are just not enough days in the hour
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