by Geoff Hart

If it's a good day, you arrive at work around seven o'clock, grateful for having missed the morning rush hour. Today's not a good day, so instead you crawl out from under the shakey shelf in your cubicle, glad that neither your cranky, obsolete computer nor the stale glass of Jolt cola fell on you during the night. Don't laugh; it's happened before, and putting yourself back together again cost you an hour of sleep you desperately needed. You smell the stench of cold pizza, and what's really appalling is that you're not sure whether it's coming from your shirt, your breath, or a hidden cache somewhere in the cubicle under piles of documentation someone left you to review. That's not your problem right now. Thinking wistfully of the relative ease of that medical internship you turned down, you get to your feet and stretch until all your joints crack.

Thanks to TECHWR-Ler Debbie Stewart for initiating this list and to others for adding to it.

Computer and Technical Skills

General

• Graphics software packages
  
• Word processing software
  
• Online authoring software
  
• Online editors
  
• Desktop publishing
  
• Project planning software
  

Specific

• Microsoft Word
  
• Help Workshop
  
• FrameMaker
  
• PageMaker
  
• Ventura
  
• Adobe Acrobat
  
• UNIX
  
• Macintosh
  
• RoboHELP
  
• C++ code
  
• COBOL code
  
• Java
  
• Visual Basic
  
• Configuring Windows95