RE: techie or font fondler? - introspection ad nauseum

["Lakritz, Andrew M." <Andrew -dot- Lakritz -at- Ruesch -dot- com>]

In my experience, the opposite has been the case. I once drove fresh peaches
to market on a flat bed, and I knew long haul truckers who laughed at my
rig. I taught English at a university where literary theorists ridiculed
folks who taught literature. I worked in textbook publishing where
commercial publishers looked down their noses at our activities. I worked at
the State Department where the foreign service officers often looked down on
their civil service colleagues. For each one of these observable behaviors,
when these tensions and differences manifest themselves, there are often
entire institutional structures that back them up and reinforce them, from
unions to departments to associations and clubs. Divide and conquer I
suppose. My guess is that a big cause for introspection on the list is
employment pressures. 

The discussion has been useful to me, however. I've only been in this
business six years and its useful to see how may different ways there are to
skin a cat, as it were.

Andy Lakritz



You know, I've worked in a wide variety of fields before getting into
technical writing. But only in this field have I seen so much time and
energy devoted to analyzing and discussing what qualifies one to be a "real"
practitioner of the occupation.

I mean, I never once sat behind the wheel and thought, "Am I a REAL truck
driver?" And none of us really talked about it on the loading dock.

It's interesting the introspection this profession brings out in us...



Keith Cronin
fondling fonts in a technical way since 1997


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