Re: How we introduce our profession to others . . .

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Glenn Maxey wrote:
> 
> When asked what he did for a living, a good friend who was a tech writer
> for many years until he started doing web development used to say:
> 
> "Oh, I sit around watching television and pushing buttons all day."
> 

Funny - my first major job as a tech-writer was with a division of IBM
that made an ATM video conferencing system that displayed on a TV and
operated using a remote.

So, for seven months or so, my job **was** watching television and
pushing buttons all day.

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