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Subject:Re: What is a tech writer (humor cont.) From:Kathryn Marshall <kmarshall -at- MODACAD -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 7 Nov 1997 13:01:55 -0800
My party conversations usually go like this:
Clueless Partygoer: "So what do you do?"
Me: "I'm a technical writer."
Clueless Partygoer: "Huh???"
Me: "I write computer manuals."
Clueless Partygoer: "So YOU'RE the one who writes all that stuff no one
can read!"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Posada (work account) [SMTP:posada -at- FAXSAV -dot- COM]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 1997 11:49 AM
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> Subject: What is a tech writer
>
> Just a side comment.
>
> I was at a cocktail party last night and when I be asked what I do and
> tell them I'm a tech writer, I was asked 3-4 times "What is a tech
> writer".
>
> My response was "A tech writer is someone who writes things in a way
> so
> that it can only mean one thing."
>
> It was amazing how each time I said that (3 or 4 times), it was if a
> lightbulb went on in their heads. At least I thought it was kinda
> weird.
>
>
> John
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