Re: Tech writers are the new accountants

["Lin Sims" <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> This week's episode of TV medical drama House features a recluse who
> has
>> unexplained seizures. He suffers from crippling agoraphobia and
> refuses
>> to leave his home to be diagnosed and treated. He believes he's OK the
>> way he is because he can get everything he needs delivered, and you
>> know, *he writes technical manuals for a living*.
>>
>> Possibly this guy could get some life coaching from the protagonist of
>> 2003 movie The Technical Writer, "... a chain smoking agorophobe who
>> lives in abject squallor," who has "terrible personal hygeine" and who
>> "would be happy to live his life in his basement apartment except for
>> the crazy people who keep forcing him to respond to their own neurotic
>> desires."
>
> Looks like we technical writers get the *beat down* once again, eh?
>
> As Rodney Dangerfield would say, "We don't get no respect."
>

It's like we're some strange, alien species.

Although a friend of mine has remarked more than once that technical
writers are weird because they like to write, whereas MOST people
would rather get poked in the eye with a sharp, pointy stick.

Might be an interesting survey question, especially if you added in
other types of writers (journalists, magazine, ad, script writers,
novelists, etc.) and then compared the results between those groups
and tech writers and those groups (including tech writers) to the
public at large...

Lin Sims
--
(Yeah, I'm not volunteering to conduct that survey, either.)
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