Re[2]: How not to attract staff!

[Don Smith <dsmith -at- ACCESSBEYOND -dot- COM>]

     Chris Hamilton wrote, in part:

     "I work to have money to do other things, not because it defines who I
     am. To paraphrase Dr. Laura, I am my kid's (soon to be kids') father.
     I am my wife's husband. I am also a technical writer. If that makes me
     unprofessional or anything, then so be it.</SOAPBOX>"

     Chris, I agree whole heatedly with you! This is one of the industries
     where the worker *is* expected to do "whatever is necessary to get the
     job done" (which translated = "do whatever the powers over you want
     you to do to get the job done when it will make them look good and get
     their nice, big, fat, bonus (that you don't get!)).

     I think this is true because there is this feeling by others, that
     because we all go to school and take English, that it follows that we
     are all "writers". No one knows better then we, the Technical Writer,
     how wrong that is!

     Thanks for saying it better, Chris.

     MOO


     Don Smith
     Sr. Tech Writer

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