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From: Price, Becca
Subject: RE: continuing the certification debate
Date: Thursday, July 27, 1995 1:37PM
I am one of the people who started the certification thread - sorry!
My main question was not whether, but what sorts of certifications are
appropriate? the only reason I ask is my employer pays $500 per
professional certification gained, which would go sweetly into my bank
account. Unfortunately, the only thing he suggests I get certified in is
Word, which requires more programming than I am interested in learning, and
in DocToHelp, ditto.
oh, well.
On the whole, I don't know *how* one would certify a professional technical
writer, except on the kind of form that mental institutions use <g>
