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Subject:Re: What to do? From:"Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:34:54 -0800
"Kim Roper" <kim -dot- roper -at- pixelink -dot- com> wrote in message news:218105 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> k k said:
>
> > This reads like you are saying people have to be
> > trained as engineers before they can be technical
> > writers.
>
> You mean, we don't? I could have spent those years studying something
> *cool*, like drumming?
>
But I think studying engineering and technical stuff *is* cool. Of course,
my idea of fun is a shopping trip to Fry's....
And I'd much prefer reading my technical journals to taking shore leave. :)
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