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Subject:Re: Career changer vs. entry level From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:37:46 -0600
If I had realized that there was such a profession as technical writing,
I would have. I fell into it, but I pretty quickly realized I was doing
what I had wanted to do all along.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wayne Douglass [SMTP:wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 10:26 AM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Career changer vs. entry level
>
>Tony Rocco wrote that technical writing is "a field consisting largely of
>career changers and transplants from other fields." Spot on, Tony. And the
>hoops one has to jump through to get in remind me of frat house hazing
>rituals.
>
>There used to be a public service ad with the slogan: "Nobody says 'I want
>to be a drug addict when I grow up.'" Nobody says "I want to be a technical
>writer when I grow up" either.
>
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