Re: Tech writers are the new accountants

["Chris Morton" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

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

*snork! bleep!*

*Sir-hc*


On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> 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
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