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Subject:Re: Are we just secretaries? From:"Tracy Boyington" <tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:59:18 -0500
I'd say you're working as an editor. And yes, secretaries are also asked to act as editors on occasion (or not asked, but they do it anyway).
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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK http://www.okvotech.org/cimc
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maybe it's just the mood I am in today - but I have been working on an installation guide for two weeks. As most of it is code that I don't know - the programmer (who is LEP - the politically correct term for Limited English Proficient) has to write it and then I write it in correct English - and also format tons of lines of code so that the columns are even and all code is in the correct style - and all that jazz.
Geez. I feel like a secretary. I am not writing - I am making it pretty - formatting it - and also
re-writing his writing. But executive secretaries - don't they do that too?
It dawned on me today that some of w3hat I do is - well - not that different from secretarial work?
The user guides and specs are a different story. There I truly create - write - devise - use discretion and judgement. But this kind of stuff - I feel like a secretary.
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