Re: Breaking into the tech writing job market

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

   Hi Gene,
   I totally agree on what Mil. Spec. writers should have been doing; however,
   I also had to use some of the garbage that our government produced.  The
   stuff generated by the company I worked for was all over the place, partly
   because the shop was loaded with retired military personnel (except me...I
   was honorably discharged, but couldn't handle the military long enough to
   retire).
   Al
   Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

     One of my first jobs as an engineer was editing MIL docs written by other
     engineers (someone realized early on that I wrote better
     than the average engineer), and the underlying philosophy was "imagine
     that the reader is looking at your manual in the dark with a pocket
     flashlight, trying to repair a critical piece of equipment while incoming
     is whistling over his head."  Under such conditions, even a PhD would want
     instructions that are fast and uncomplicated.

   --

   Al Geist
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   See also:
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References

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   2. http://www.geistassociates.com/
   3. http://www.geistimages.com/
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