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Subject:RE: them engineers From:"Edwin Skau" <eddy_skau -at- mailcity -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 24 May 2000 14:52:44 +0530
Jane Carnall wrote in response to Martin smith's response to Chuck Martin's reaction to Catherine's post.
>I have a computer science degree, and about 15 years experience in writing 5 years in technical writing). While this may have got me a few interviews...
>In the third year of my degree, I decided that rather than be a bored programmer (and probably a second-rate one) I'd be an enthusiastic technical writer (and aim to be a first-rate one). I still think that job satisfaction is more important than money, but hey, money is nice *too*.
So a second-rate programmer can be a first-rate writer eh? Do you blame the engineers for sharing your opinion?
