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> I am wondering if anyone can tell me the current state of the
relationship
> between writers and the esteemed wizards, engineers, in industry. I ask
because
> I work with a smart young woman, graduating soon with a degree in
Computer
> Engineering. Yesterday she ranted on Tech Writers as "useless, overpaid,
and
> not altogether capable" of understanding what she and her peers do.
Hey... get her a subscription to this list... We will straighten her out
right proper. I ain't got no big, old fancy dancey degree, or nuttin like
that thar, but I dun learned stuff right proper; Lordy, Lordy, you bet I
did.
Seriously, let me let her in on a big secret. I know a few senior engineers
that are overpaid and often quite useless, and believe that new computer
engineering graduates are also over paid and useless.
