RE: Tech writing course in vo-tech curriculum

Subject: RE: Tech writing course in vo-tech curriculum
From: "Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:26:05 -0800

> Well, you know, anybody can write, right? ;-)
>

> Does it strike anyone else as annoying that when times get hard,
> half the
> laid-off world seems to get all Louisa May Alcott and decides they
> can "be a
> writer"? "I know, I'll be a tech writer!" they say. An actual
> aptitude for
> either writing or technology doesn't seem to be on the list of
> must-haves,for some reason.

The real annoying part is that some PHB will actually hire them for an
outrageously cheap salary and then expect me to "bring them up to
speed".

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.

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