Re: This too is technical communication:

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Trying to get employers to "understand what we do" is
a dead end, because "what we do" is whatever the
employer is willing to pay us to do.  What needs to be
sold to employers is the case that they need something
that we can do.  If you can figure out how to do this,
go for it.  Personally, I have stopped tilting at windmills
and instead concentrate my efforts at finding companies
who have already bought into the need.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> Good point. I think that the first step toward this is
> having them understand what we do as something more
> than writing the manual after all the other work gets
> done.

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