Re: Reality Check Time

[Kate O'Neill <kateo -at- CINEBASE -dot- COM>]

Elna complained:
> Oh, please! I'm getting really tired of this board providing fuel for
> urban
> legends that aren't true.  I can't think of a single place in the Bay Area
> where
> you have to pay $12 for a cup of coffee.  We've dissed Silicon Valley -
> and the
> people who work here - enough, thankyouverymuch.  People choose geographic
> areas
> for a variety of reasons - what's wrong with simply acknowledging that
> diff'rent
> folks like diff'rent strokes and let it go at that?
>
        [O'Neill, Kate]  Looks like I should have left my original phrasing
        intact: I initially made a parenthetical comment about perpetuating
        misconceptions, and then changed it to the version about expensive
        habits 'cause it's Friday and I thought I'd play along with the
joke.

        You're right that coffee doesn't cost $12 in Silicon Valley, of
course,
        and there are plenty of things I pay less for here than what I used
to
        pay in Chicago, but I couldn't resist.

        OB-TECHWR-L: I think the point about "marketing writers" making
        less than technical writers is an interesting one, but I wonder how
        many writers use this terminology, given the apparent consequence
        of earning less dough? Are there any writers on this list who
identify
        primarily as "marketing writers"?

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Kate O'Neill: Manager of Documentation
Cinebase Software
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