Re: Post about a creative writer who went into tech writing for a spell

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

I had a head start on knowing about it, my father being an engineer.  
But when I looked into the field, I was told by some on-campus industry 
recruiters that they liked their writers to be people with technical 
backgrounds who had spent some time working in tech fields before 
becoming writers (this was back in the late 60's).  So I got my BSME and 
went to work as an engineer.

I was a fairly decent engineer, got reasonable raises and advancement, 
but 15 years later was still an engineer - and was doing most of the 
documentation in the R&D groups I was working in.  So when the aerospace 
boom ended, I finally got round to becoming a writer in the 
semiconductor industry, and within a year I was a tech pubs manager. 
Probably shouldn't have waited that long to make the transition.

Gene Kim-Eng



On 10/23/2015 12:34 PM, Lin Sims wrote: