RE: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

I don't think it's about working to the point of collapse. Rather, it's about the level of commitment you have.

As I think I said before, I worked as a professional catalog librarian for awhile and got canned. I think the big beef the powers that be had against me was that I treated it more like a job than a career -- or a "profession." Here's one specific instance of what was wring with my attitude. I tended to make a lot of clerical errors that required that books came back to be to be redone. I should have been more upset about that and actively not wanted it to happen, but it never bothered me as much as it should have because I knew I had to work 8 hours a day in any case, so what did it matter if I was working on new books or redoing books that I'd messed up on the first go-round. I remember thinking that if they told me I could only work on new books during the day and had to stay extra hours to redo books, that would have made me be moiré careful. But I should have been more careful because I cared whether the work got done right. So that's why I'm not a catalog librarian anymore.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng [mailto:techwr -at- genek -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:20 PM
To: Downing, David; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: A dark take on Tech Writing...do you agree?

That just sounds to me like a roadmap to an exhaustion
collapse.

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