RE: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers?

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

To include sleep deprivation during 72-hour "shifts"? 

Residency is preceded by internship, isn't it? 
Thirty-six-hour and longer shifts running on nothing 
but caffeine. Supposed to toughen the minions before 
they can progress, or to weed out the weak ones, 
but it also subjects patients to treatment by 
sleep-deprived, shaky, possibly hallucinating 
junior practitioners, with varying levels of 
competent (and well-rested?) oversight. 

"I'll be back in two hours - I'm driving cab 
to pay some of my med-school bills. Have these 
wounds cleaned and sutured, and try not to sew 
the patients to each other or to their clothes. 
Or to yourself, or to the bed, or...  well, 
I'll be back." 

Not sure what the equivalent would be in 
apprentice-TW land.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynne Wright
> 
> And subjecting would-be tech writers to a multi-year residency under
> expert tutelage.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> 
> Dan Goldstein wrote:
> 
> > Again with the medical degree? This is not a credible comparison for
> an
> > STC cert.
> 
> At least not unless the STC's long-range plans include having the
> government prosecute people for practicing tech writing without a
> license and tightly regulating tech writing schools and the number of
> students they admit. ;-)
> 

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