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Subject:Re: What to call us From:Steve Wax <stevewx -at- ESKIMO -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 22 Jun 1995 01:03:41 -0700
Marta wrote:
<snip>
>While I don't have any objection to my peers/colleagues adopting other
>titles for the same work I do, I don't know who it *really* impresses. I
>know that when I meet a Sanitation Engineer, I'm dealing with a garbage man
>with a vocabulary (or a thesaurus).
<snippity snip>
>We say what we *are* (technical writers, technical communicators, document
>engineers, information engineers, etc.), when asked what we do, when we
>should be telling people what we *do*.
Thanks for your insightful and sensible post. Of course we should be doing
as you suggest because, existentialist echoes aside, we are what we do.
steve wax stevewx -at- eskimo -dot- com
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