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Subject:Re: FW: Worthless Tech Comm Degrees -Reply From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:Bill Sullivan <bsullivan -at- powerware -dot- com> Date:Sat, 25 Mar 2000 08:46:50 -0500
Bill Sullivan wrote:
>
> Chuck Martin was told:
> > Technical communication is not a discipline, it is a job title.
> >
> > It's just the title given to people who write how-to books
> > for corporations.
> >
>
> It's happens. People study hard, practice hard, work hard and worry hard, and when their stuff gets put up there in the public eye, other people, cynical people, people who don't know, people who don't know what it is to lose a night's sleep over what they write, say there is nothing to it. Anybody could do it.
>
> Heck, they said the same thing about Picasso.
>
If you make it look easy you've done your job well.
--
Peter
Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig.
You soon realize they both enjoy it.
