Ok. When did you paint your car with magnetic paint? You really need to strip that stuff off before anything else metal rams into your poor vehicle.
Seriously, I'm glad you're here to type up this post. Are you ok?
Couldn't you do technical writing from home? I mean, it seems reasonable.
Yay F2FMadison! Still hoping to attend with Mike, but it all depends on home improvement projects. We're trying to sell my place to move in together and so very much has to happen first. Grrr.
My parents must have bought me from a Timex factory, I take a licking and keep on ticking.
I'm sure some tech writing could probably be done from home, just not all of it or all the time. A major part of tech writing is talking to programmers, engineers, drafters, assemblers, users, etc. You spend a lot of time looking at objects, prints, programs, etc. in order to break down a process into its component steps for explication. That's kinda hard to do from home. Once you get all the info, you could work from home, but you never get all the info first time around. For example, today I had to extract two drawings out of larger assembly drawings because I don't have good pictures for the object, go down to the floor to actually look at the equipment to verify placement, talk to the engineering aide about how certain hardware worked, and confirm with the product engineer that some of the instructions one of my predecessors wrote was wrong and get the correct info. It's a new product, and we're working with prototype parts, so the pictures
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Seriously, I'm glad you're here to type up this post. Are you ok?
Couldn't you do technical writing from home? I mean, it seems reasonable.
Yay F2FMadison! Still hoping to attend with Mike, but it all depends on home improvement projects. We're trying to sell my place to move in together and so very much has to happen first. Grrr.
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I'm sure some tech writing could probably be done from home, just not all of it or all the time. A major part of tech writing is talking to programmers, engineers, drafters, assemblers, users, etc. You spend a lot of time looking at objects, prints, programs, etc. in order to break down a process into its component steps for explication. That's kinda hard to do from home. Once you get all the info, you could work from home, but you never get all the info first time around. For example, today I had to extract two drawings out of larger assembly drawings because I don't have good pictures for the object, go down to the floor to actually look at the equipment to verify placement, talk to the engineering aide about how certain hardware worked, and confirm with the product engineer that some of the instructions one of my predecessors wrote was wrong and get the correct info. It's a new product, and we're working with prototype parts, so the pictures ( ... )
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