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Subject:Re: What is a TW? From:Christopher Carmichael <chrisc -at- SYNERGYMICRO -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:17:20 -0800
>This may sound somewhat trivial, but I could really could use a good
>answer.
It sounds like you could!
>What really defines a TW?
>
>My department manager would like to believe that a good, experience TW
>would be able to look at a pile of components and intuitively know how to
>assemble and then operate a given product, then write the appropriate
>instructions.
Gee, a doctor should be able to look at you and figure out what's wrong.
In my experience, you're right -- and your quote below.
>I need to learn about something before I'm able to write about it. I
>mean, how would I already know about something that hasn't existed yet?
>
>Who is more accurate?
You are. Your manager wants you to be the "jack of all trades and master
of . . ."
Good luck.
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