RE: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

How do you answer the question, "Is technical writing a sellout or fallback
career?" with a yes or no answer?  Are "sellout" and "fallback" synonymous?


If one is selling out, then what is that person selling out of?  As a
"fallback career," wouldn't a fallback be the same as a starting point?  So
what is the ultimate ambition?  The poll question is not well-formed.

Personally, I think that technical writing is a valid career choice and can
be a starting a career or a final career goal.  So it can be both a
"fallback," if fallback is where one begins, and a "sellout," if there is
supposedly a more noble final career goal than technical writing.  So how do
I answer the poll?

Lauren
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cardimon, Craig

> Vote in the poll:
> 
> Scroll down the right side of this page:
> http://www.idratherbewriting.com/ 
> 
> My vote was no.

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