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Subject:Re: Dividing the Tech writer job From:GM Vick <gmv -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:46:50 -0700
> It may be that you're the exception. I've got to say, I've known a lot of
> admin/clerical workers in my time who were great typists and able to get
> around reasonably well in several software packages, but couldn't write a
> sentence to save their life.
>>>Oh, but some of us COULD!
I have no doubt that there are admin/clerical types who can write. If I
came across as saying that the first necessarily says the second can't
exist, I apologize. But again, the clerical workers have to WANT to learn
the new skills.
Dirty little secret, I put myself through a BA and a Master's as a legal
secretary. There were lots of secretaries there who wanted to be
secretaries. There is nothing wrong with that. But if you take a happy
typist and try to force new responsibilities on them, you're headed for
trouble.
