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Subject:Re: Tool knowledge versus Task knowledge From:Horace Smith <hsmith -at- WT -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 4 Oct 1998 09:58:51 -0500
At 08:13 PM 10/2/98 -0700, Michael Andrew Uhl wrote:
>Esteemed Colleagues:
>
>In my job, knowing how to use the tools is what earns me my salary. Yes, they
>want me for my writing skills, that's a given. But what my programmer and
>science colleagues find me most useful for on a daily basis--and what they're
>willing to pay me a decent salary for--is the ability to solve minor
>communication problems very quickly. For example, just today, someone sent
me a
>FrameMaker file with a long two-column table and they needed it in
WordPerfect
>format, but with the same layout. I needed about five minutes to figure out
>that
>
>
Mike, If that's what they hired you for, one fine day they will realize
that what they really needed was a temp who could do that for a lot less
than they pay you. Then where will you be?
