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Subject:Re: job From:Deborah Ray <debray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:01:43 -0600
At 02:33 PM 8/8/99 -0500, Chris Fitztzgerald wrote:
>Is there anyone out there who has some insight as to how to get
>my foot in the door and still make a decent wage?
You might check out some of the "How I Got Started in
Tech Writing" stories on the TECHWR-L site:
Deborah
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Deborah S. Ray, RayComm, Inc. http://www.raycomm.com/ debray -at- raycomm -dot- com
*Award-winning author of several popular computer books
*Syndicated columnist: "Rays on Computing" and
"Kids' Computing Fun with the Rays"
*Technology Department Editor, _Technical Communication_