RE: Information Engineers

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

I'm *so* glad we're having this conversation again. Is that Andrew Plato
I hear laughing in the background?

John put his finger on the crux of this well-worn thread. There's a huge
range of technical knowledge required of technical writers -- not only
depth, but also breadth. Some jobs require little knowledge, some
require extensive knowledge in a very specific field, and some require
the ability to rapidly acquire knowledge in a variety of areas.

Many of us could never get hired for John's job, and John could never
get hired for many of ours.

There's a >10X vertical range of technical knowledge required for our
jobs, and probably a >100X horizontal range. But the range of
communication knowledge required just _isn't that big_. Someone with
only a tenth of John's communication skills shouldn't get hired
*anywhere* (yes, I know they do), and there's no one with ten times
John's communication skills.

Happy Thursday,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada
> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: Stuart Burnfield; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Information Engineers
> 
> ... In other words, you might have to have a 10X 
> improvement in technical knowledge compared to a 
> 2X improvement in communication knowledge...
> 

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