RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals??

Subject: RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals??
From: Bill Swallow <bill_swallow -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:37:45 -0800 (PST)

Jenise Cook wonders:

So, how many of you endure your family's chuckles

at holidays or birthdays where "techie" gifts are

given, and the manuals are untouched? Do family
and friends wonder why you do what you do for a
living?

I got some ribbing from an uncle years ago when I was
in college. "You're studying communications? What, you
need to go to college to learn how to use a phone?"
;)

I don't let it bother me. To be truthful, I hardly
ever RTFM, unless I'm either really bored or really
stumped. Perhaps that makes me a bad tech writer, but
IMHO, we write manuals not so that they have to be
used, but so they are there when the users need them.

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Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
PowerAdz.com
518.687.6107
bswallow -at- poweradz -dot- com

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