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Subject:Re: Interview Questions: Whats your major? From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- CORP -dot- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 May 1998 09:08:21 -0700
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> I like Economics!! It's a *great* major for technical writers.
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> Econ majors rule! Econ majors rule!
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And here I've always thought that having two art degrees didn't help me
as a tech writer. However, after dealing with stuff like "the
utilization of class-redundant phenomenology as the low-level sub-text
reifies the epistomological hueristics incumbent in the ontological
politicalization and decomposition of post-modern picture plane
boundaries," a network protocol spec is a snap.