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Subject:Re: Dividing the Tech writer job From:Theresa Jakupco <Tsjz -at- AOL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:46:26 EDT
Tracy,
In a message dated 8/11/98 9:03:01 AM, you wrote:
<<The set of knowledge and skills that makes a good typist or typesetter is
not necessarily the same set that makes a good tech writer, and the fact that
you had both sets is either a coincidence or a bonus depending on how you look
at it.>>
I guess that I was never interested in a career which follows a strict linear
progression. Realizing that my life span is probably only 70 to 90 years, I'm
in favor of the adventure of new challenges, something resembling a matrix
(Webster's 10th ed.: "something within or from which something else
originates, develops, or takes form"). More money and prestige are just not my
priorities.
I enjoy meeting people who don't limit themselves to their job titles.
