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Thank you Rachna, for your detailed and convincing explanation! Some of
it sounds a lot like the US tech industry in the 90s, when TWs could
get hired to write user guides with little more than an English degree,
and salaries kept going up and up.
Your mention of apprenticeship was interesting too. In the US, it seems
companies only want to hire you after somebody else has paid to train
you.
It would be interesting to do this kind of analysis based on some more
rigorous data - but that would be a full-time job!
Mike O.
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