Re: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

That just sounds to me like a roadmap to an exhaustion
collapse.

I would put my job/career borderline at the occupation
level, i.e., how attached am I to what I do and how big
a decision would it be for me to switch to a different
occupation.  By that definition, I've had two "careers"
(engineer and writer/manager), except that the border
is kind of porous because even today I occaisionally
find myself running a test or redesigning a widget that
isn't working the way it's supposed to.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
> Perhaps my definition is too liberal, but I'd say the sole distinction
> between a "job" and a "career" is that a career is something you have 
> an
> emotional attachment to. You care whether the work is done well and
> properly.
>
> I guess by that definitional, technical wiring could be either a job 
> or
> a career, depending on your attitude. If you have a document that 
> isn't
> finished on time and you know you won't get penalized for delivering 
> it
> late, it's a JOB if you say, "Well, I won't get in trouble for
> delivering it late and it's 5:00, so my work day is over, so I'm outta
> here." It's a CAREER if you say, "I'm going to stay to finish this
> because it would really upset me to see our client get it late."

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