Re: Apprenticeship ( WAS: Conceit)

Subject: Re: Apprenticeship ( WAS: Conceit)
From: George Mena <George -dot- Mena -at- ESSTECH -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:19:50 -0700

Starting out as an apprentice! There's a concept! :D

It's good enough for electricians, plumbers, carpenters, machinists and
many other honorable trades.

It's also good enough for tech writers -- but I say that only because I
apprenticed after earning my journalism degree from college. And even
then, it helped a lot to have worked for the hometown newspaper while
going to school.

TW programs in college need to work with other apprenticeship programs,
especially ones offering on-the-job training, but that's just my
opinion. :D

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rowena Hart [SMTP:rhart -at- INTRINSYC -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 8:54 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Conceit, or, How I Learned to Stop
> Worrying About Competition (long)
>
>
[George Mena] snip
>
> Apprentices usually don't go to school until they have
> gotten their hands dirty doing low-end work on the shop floor.
> They can stay an apprentice, or they can work towards being a
> journeyman, by ... going to school ... studying ... going back to the
> shop floor ... and going to school again to become a master.
>
> Just a few top o' the morning thoughts on the subject,
>

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