Would you hire...

Subject: Would you hire...
From: Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:58:03 +0100

Hello Chris,

* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von chamilton -at- gr -dot- com an All am 23.06.97

cc> In a previous life, I was a COBOL programmer.

cc> My question is this: if a technical writer were to take a year
cc> or two
cc> and program in COBOL because the money is incredible, would it
cc> hurt that
cc> technical writer's credibility with you if you were a hiring
cc> manager?

as always: It depends. I would not consider a COBOL programmer to do some
end-user manual. But if I needed a manual for a COBOL program...

BTW: I fully sympatise with you about not wanting to program to the end of your
days. I did some Z80 assembler programming on my home-made CP/M machine around
1980 and even used some higher-level languages like BASIC, Pascal or C later
on. But in 1987 I had enough of recognizing that the the computer is always
right...


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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