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I've been lurking for several days (Hi Alexia) and thought I'd jump in
here. Re the degree question, I do think degrees are valuable even
though mine is in Mass Communication (I had dreams of being a radio
"personality"!). Experience is also valuable, but formal education just
gives a person an undefinable something that experience doesn't.
Re the dress question, I work in what I guess you'd call the medical
documentation field. My company (Coulter Corp.) makes blood diagnostic
hardware and software and is located in Miami, FL. I lived in the
Raleigh NC area for a while and got used to casual dress--I like it A
LOT. Coulter has "casual summer" and always has casual Friday, but they
frown on tee shirts and you can't weat any kind of shirt advertising
another company. And the biggest thing--NO SHORTS. It gets damned hot
down here, folks, but apparently a few ninnies ruined it for everyone
but wearing the kind of shorts where your butt hangs out. So instead of
specifying the *kind* of shorts that wouldn't be allowed, they just said
no shorts.
I was kind of dismayed at the "survey" results, though. I've been
getting wanderlust and had thought the CA, WA, OR areas would be more
lenient. Are my hopes being dashed?
Finally, one question... I subscribed to the winhelp list hoping to talk
to other writers about ForeHelp as a help authoring tool, but just about
everyone on the list uses RoboHelp. I know that knowledge is a *good*
thing, but I just can't see learning a tool that makes it at least twice
as difficult to make a help system. Any thoughts? Any fellow help
authorers out there?
Dimi Everette
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