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Subject:Re: Career changer vs. entry level From:"Smith, Amy" <amsmith -at- PTC -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:52:14 -0500
Wayne Douglass wrote:
>Nobody says "I want to be a technical
> writer when I grow up" either.
My father once suggested to me, in my junior year of high school, that I
think about becoming a technical writer. Of course, I filed that
suggestion away with all the other parental advice I ever ignored. :-)
I did not become a technical writer right out of college. It took me
about six years.
To my dad's credit, he has never said, "I told you so."
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Parametric Technology amsmith -at- ptc -dot- com
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