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When people ask (and they sometimes do), I explain that I translate Engineeringese, Computerese, Educationese, and Managementese into English that anybody can understand. "Oooohhhh!" they say, a visible lightbulb appearing above their crown chakras. "Why yes, there must be a whole bunch of people who do that sort of thing, never much thought about it before."
If I had known that this profession existed when I was 8 years old, I would have put "technical" in front of "writer" when that dumb "what do you want to be" question came up. I didn't know, so I just said "writer". When I didn't say "veterinarian".
Now I'm a vet (gotta be these days if you have livestock; there is never an emergency when the official doctor isn't already out on a 4-hour crisis call), farmer, herbalist, poet, writer, process engineer, project manager, employee counselor, and pretty good cheesemaker if I do say so myself. I'm also starting to write and sell photographs and articles to magazines, and to write more about technology. There's a book or a pony in this pile somewhere.
Dori Green
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