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Subject:Re: Degreed and insulted!! Was:Beginner... From:"Brian J. Dooley" <Brian_Dooley -at- EQUINOX -dot- GEN -dot- NZ> Date:Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:08:16 +1200
EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE, EXPERIENCE...I know lots of folks with degrees in x
who are now doing y extremely well. One fellow with a BA in English, now
designing helicopter guidance systems, for example. My own degree was
somewhere in English/Film Communications, but I've written over 1,000
magazine articles, six books, scads of manuals and reports, etc. I can
resent emphasis given to a few years schooling over a dozen years of
hardcore practice. Continuous study has a place, as do degrees. But
schooling in itself isn't even a qualification in a craft such as writing or
"tech writing".
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***** BRIAN J. DOOLEY ***** 45 Aylesford St., Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
email: Brian_Dooley -at- equinox -dot- gen -dot- nz CompuServe: 75146,3212
