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I don't know about anyone else, but I would be interested in "looking in"
on this discussion. In Canada, at least, there is considerable controversy
about what these titles mean, and who should get paid more.
For example, at one place "documentation specialist" meant someone who could
dtp, do some editing/proofreading, but wasn't a full "technical writer".
Status was exactly the other way around at another company.
"If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a
wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it
really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's
a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to
interface with the Mystery."
