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Subject:RE: How we define ourselves From:"Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)" <diane_evans -at- merck -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:28:00 -0800
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Subject: Re: How we define ourselves
Huey Callison wrote:
>Aren't we really just "Weapons of Mass Instruction?"
For nearly 15 years, I was a college math professor. As such, my
students often used compasses, rulers, protractors, and other "Weapons
of Math Construction."
>
> The answer I give to people that aren't in IT is "I write books nobody
> reads about software nobody uses."
>
My easy answer is, "I work with computers." "Oh, are you a programmer?"
"No, I do everything EXCEPT programming."
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