Re: credibility (longish but IMO worth reading)

[Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Mike is a wise man.

Look, everybody has been writing since they were in
pre-school, right? So how hard can technical writing
really be ... I mean, it's just typing, right?

Besides, like QA, tech writing is generally worthless
overhead--nobody reads the manuals anyway. Yadda
yadda.

Cheers and grins,

Sean

--- "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> Goober Writer wrote:
> > If someone with your skills and know-how needs to
> > trade money for credibility, then there is
> something
> > tragically wrong with our profession.
> 
> There is. We have been venting about it for years on
> this very list.
> Employers either neglect documentation work or hold
> it in active contempt.
> Employers don't understand documentation work, and
> documentation doesn't
> appear on their radar screen unless painfully forced
> by a customer. Rational
> business priorities, or pathological arrogance? 
> After all this time I still
> don't know. Depends on the employer, I guess.

<snip--but if you didn't read Mike's original post, I
recommend you do so.>

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