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going into the local bar and saying you're a tech writer...
Subject:going into the local bar and saying you're a tech writer... From:Susan Fowler <sfowler -at- EJV -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:00:40 EDT
I did that once on Block Island, RI. The guy sitting next to me at the bar asked
me what I did--"technical writing" I said--then he asked where.
"At [name withheld] in New York."
He immediately grabbed me around the neck and started choking me (a mock attack,
of course).
"Why are you doing this?" I coughed out.
"MY ENTIRE BUSINESS runs on your software and I can't get this to work and that
to work and the other to work--"
We became friends, more or less, and stayed in touch for awhile afterwards. So,
it is possible to be accepted as a tech writer in a bar, but the process may
not always be, well, easy....
