Re: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I did it because people were willing to pay me more
money to write about technical things than to actually
go out and do them.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Technical Writer" <tekwrytr -at- hotmail -dot- com>
>There is an old saying that, "Them as can, does. Them as 
>can't, teaches." There is an even older saying that writers 
>write for fear of being told to their faces that their ideas are 
>silly. Specifically, a major motivation for writing (rather than 
>other types of communication) is the desire to have the 
>(usually uncontested) "last word." 

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