Re: Movie: "The Technical Writer" and personality

["John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> Now, there is nothing wrong with writing specs for slot-machines.
> However, I could tell this comment, and the way it was delivered,  had
> given the class that  stereotypical image - add "deadly dull" to the
> list. I took every oppotunity I could to disabuse them of the idea.  I
> think I succeeded.

Maybe you had to hear the delivery, but first, I wouldn't think
writing ANYTHING for the gaming industry would be taken as dull, and
second, how would YOU say what we do in a single sentence where it
sounds exciting?

It's not like you could say "Writes the specifications for James
Bond's Aston Martin."

-- 
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
NYMetro STC President

'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
     -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager
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