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Subject:Re: Senior Technical Writer - The Pentagon From:Denise Fritch <dfritch -at- INTELLICORP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Aug 1998 11:05:24 -0700
At 10:42 AM 8/20/98 -0700, Barry Kieffer wrote:
>This sounds like a great position, but I would re-read Three Days of the
>Condor first.
>
>Just some tech writer humor! <grin> :~)
I agree Barry. It is a nice position.
Nice humor too. However this position is supposed to be in the Pentagon,
not a brownstone. Besides, the employer in that novel was the CIA. With the
military, the equivalent (sort of) would be an investigator for military
counterintelligence. <G> So speaks someone who retired from that field in
1984 and started working as a tech writer. (Talk about "strange entries"
into tech writing.)
