RE: "Good enough"

[poshedly -at- bellsouth -dot- net]

Hear! Hear! Let's see . . . Bach of Science in Radio-TV News (in 1974, when there were NO new jobs in that field, like it's getting to be now), so started off as a newspaper reporter, then public relations rep (American Red Cross and later a major nationwide health care provider), then publications editor, a year or more as an advertising copywriter (yecchh!), some freelance stuff -- and LOTS of unemployment in between those job stints, before finally full-time tech writing in 1984.

One thing I found is that, in a way, "tech writing" was actually included _within_ each of those previous jobs to varying degrees.

Although I miss the news business, I LOVE tech writing far more. They used to say that the insult, "You're too nosy" to a reporter was actually a top compliment because of the almost insatiable curiosity about "things".

Same with tech writing -- continuous curiosity about how this or that works and how to tell everybody else all about it.

-- Ken in Atlanta


-------------- Original message from "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>: -------------- 


> Seems as though TW might be better when tempered by experience in 
> another career. Is that a fair statement? 
> 
> 
> Craig Cardimon 
> Technical Writer 
> Marketing Systems Group 
> ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: John Posada [mailto:jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:59 AM 
> > To: Cardimon, Craig 
> > Cc: Techwr-l 
> > Subject: Re: "Good enough" 
> > 
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Cardimon, Craig 
> 
> > wrote: 
> > > I come at TW from a background in newspapers. You don't miss 
> deadlines 
> > > in the news business. That's why they're called "dead lines." Cross 
> them 
> > > and you're as good as dead. Your business is, anyway. 
> > 
> > and I came at it from a sales background. In many instances, be 1 
> > second late can turn your response into hundreds or thousands of hours 
> > of wasted time. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Posada 
> > Senior Technical Writer 
> > NYMetro STC President 
> > 
> > 'Half this game is ninety percent mental.' 
> > -- Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager 
> > 
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