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Re: "Technical Writing Could Be a Great Encore Career"
Subject:Re: "Technical Writing Could Be a Great Encore Career" From:Kaylin Tristano <kaylintristano -at- quadax -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:23:10 +0000
"Invoice Cosby" has so much potential for humor and yet is a very disappointing Google search given his recent adventures.
On a serious note, it seems like tech writing *is* a second/encore/what-have-you career for a lot of people (myself included). A quick Google search reveals lots of articles on how to become a technical writer generally speaking but not much aside from the aforementioned pretty sad attempt on the specific subject of transitioning to technical writing as a second career. I wonder if it merits talking about further?
Kaylin Tristano | Quadax Technical Communication Specialist
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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:38:33 -0400
From: "Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
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Subject: Re: "Technical Writing Could Be a Great Encore Career"
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:01:37 -0400, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
wrote:
>>Another article on the same site, one about humor, refers to "Invoice
>>Cosby." If you put Bill Cosby through a thesaurus and don't worry about
>>what happens, that's the sort of thing you get. Worse, if you Google for
>>"Invoice Cosby" you get a stinking plethora of hits, presumably ALL of
>>them from stinking click farms.
>>Until today I had not realized how much a plethora could stink.
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