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Re: Want to turn your writing skills into $75,000 a year or more?
Subject:Re: Want to turn your writing skills into $75,000 a year or more? From:"Martin, Chuck" <chuckm -at- EVOLVESOFTWARE -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:47:29 -0800
On Thursday, January 15, 1998 11:32 PM, JIMCHEVAL
[SMTP:JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM] wrote:
> In a message dated 98-01-15 21:29:45 EST, jgreg040 -at- CONCENTRIC -dot- NET
purrs:
>
> << Want to turn your writing skills into $75,000 a year or more? Then
get
> your FREE writing-for-money resource guide.
>http://www.worldprofit.com/sites/gregg/writer >>
>
> Gee, are more and more people planning to use this list as a marketing
outlet?
<snip>
>
> But it's not exactly the kind of approach one expects among
colleagues.
>
> No?
Our colleagues are as much a part of the human race as any other
sub-group, with as wide a variety of attributes as the whole, attributes
that include--or don't include--motivation; politeness; considerateness;
talent; adherence to rules, guidelines, and societal norms; and so on.
So, expected? Yes. Disappointing to see? Also yes.
--
"You don't look American."
"Everyone looks American, because Americans are from everywhere."
- Doonesbury
Chuck Martin, Technical Writer
Evolve Software | Personal
chuckm -at- evolvesoftware -dot- com | writer -at- grin -dot- net
www.evolvesoftware.com | www.grin.net/~writer
