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Subject:Re: Career Choice and Degree From:Robert Plamondon <robert -at- PLAMONDON -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Apr 1995 08:59:30 PDT
An engineering degree is a wonderful asset to a technical writer. Even if
you've forgotten everything you learned in school, the fact that you
posess such a sheepskin gives you instant credibility with just about
everyone.
I've found that many very effective technical writers started out as
engineering technicians. This gave them valuable hands-on experience
in the industry, daily contact with the product development process,
and invaluable skills that are summarized by one writer I know as
"babysitting the engineers."
Those seem to be the paths that make the subsequent technical writing
career pretty straightforward. Both ease the culture shock of a
sudden total immersion in engineering culture.
-- Robert
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