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Re: Career moves? What jobs are technical writers likely to move toward
Subject:Re: Career moves? What jobs are technical writers likely to move toward From:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:14:49 -0800 (PST)
"Bonnie Granat" <> wrote ...
> > I had bigger aspirations than just sitting in a cubicle all
> > day and pecking out manuals.
>
> With such a starved vision of what the job of technical writing is, it is no
> wonder you weren't happy. However, I think it is a good thing when people who
> think the job is "pecking out manuals" get out. We need less people who think
> like that, and more people who care about how technology affects the people
> who use it.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
This is one of those occasions where I must restrain my natural tendency to
unleash my rhetorical ninjas.
Have a nice day.
Andrew Plato
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