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I've been lurking here for the past few weeks - picking up tips and information and getting a feel for the group... I needed to add my two cents to this one. My background is in creative writing (short fiction/poetry), and it's always given me an advantage over my peers. I bring a different perspective to the documentation and it's always worked out very well for both me and my employers. I've also always been paid on par (and in a few cases higher than) my co-workers.
Annie
Jessica Weissman <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com> wrote:
Richard Hugo, one of the best and most accessible of modern poets, was a
technical writer for Boeing.
I'm no Richard Hugo, but I am a lightly published poet, a technical
writer, and a former programmer. My pay was on a par with the pay of
other, more prosaically-trained technical writers and programmers.
- Jessica Weissman
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...much snipped here
I wouldn't hire a poet to write software for me, and I don't expect most
software developers to write good documentation. The availability of
automatic doc-extraction tools doesn't change that.
Just my opinion, of course.
-Andrew
P.S. Actually, I MIGHT hire a poet to write software. But I wouldn't
pay him much.
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