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Subject:Re: What do you want to be called? (less serious) From:Thom Randolph <thom -at- HALCYON -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:54:16 -0700
At 06:42 PM 8/16/99 -0700, Cheryle W wrote:
>Although I've been known to refer to myself as a Documentation Goddess or
>Word Monkey I prefer plain ol' Technical Writer.
>Technical Communicator sounds too darn ... well ... Dilberty for my taste.
>:)
>
Sometimes levity helps. I'm the main writer on a product
known as MAPS. When the product is in pure chaos, I
sometimes refer to myself as "the MAPS doc whipping boy".
Maybe not professionally empowering, but it gets the
idea across, and indeed it makes them give me MORE work.
