RE: Tech writers are the new accountants

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

Where can I apply to trade the tech writing stereotype for the doctor
stereotype?

Leonard

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Subject: RE: Tech writers are the new accountants

I don't think it's a "beat down" - it's stereotypes portrayed in the
media and it goes with all types of professions.

Some examples that I hope no one takes personally:
Musicians party all night long. If you're in a rock and roll band,
you're not even playing 'real' music.
And if you are a drummer, you only hang out with musicians. <old joke>
Doctors are rich and all they do is golf, see two patients a week, make
love in a closet, get involved with patients who return as a ghost, and
solve crimes with microscopes and DNA evidence. Once in a while, they
are a star witness in a trial.
Politicians are . . .  enough on that.

I can go on and on. I think it's up to me to just brush off these types
of things. I know the truth. I have good personal hygiene and I lead a
life outside of work. Stereotypes like this "The Technical Writer" movie
don't bother me.

Paul

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