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Subject:RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known... From:Tom Johnson <johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com> To:"'Peter Shea (USF)'" <pshea2 -at- luna -dot- cas -dot- usf -dot- edu>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:18:54 -0400
On Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:31 PM, Peter Shea (USF)
[SMTP:pshea2 -at- luna -dot- cas -dot- usf -dot- edu] wrote:
> As part of my informal research for giving a tech seminar, I'd like
> members of the list to think about the following question: What bits of
> knowledge do you wish you had when you did your first
> professional tech writing assignment?
>
>
How valuable Microsoft stock would be.
Seriously, I would like to have known how much time I actually would spend
writing compared to doing other things. I continue to be amazed at how many
hats I wear and what a small percentage of my time is spent actually
writing anything.
