RE: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Keith Hansen" <KRH -at- weiland-wfg -dot- com>]

Tom wrote:

<<...the college administration knows that such idealism will surely end
in poverty and frustration.>

Don't worry, after six months of an unsuccessful job search as the Great
American Novelist, their opinion of technical writers will change
quickly (especially if they receive job offers to become one).

<<Rather than churning out the great American novel, and thus fulfilling
their life's purpose, a career in technical writing would lock them into
dry procedural writing, akin to what they find in their VCR manual.>>

Personally, I don't need another Great American Novel (e.g., beginning
novelist creates pseudo-autobiographical work, casting himself as the
hero).  I could use better VCR instructions.

Keith
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