atw: Re: advice for student technical writer

Hey Pete
Where did you come from???
Sounds like a nice background you've got yourself!!
Any chance of setting me up with some contacts??
;-)

Nige

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Erica Game said
> How did you break into the profession?
=20
I was casually contracted as a graphic designer for a
small graphics
firm near Noosa to do just that, create graphics. One
day I was given a
user guide to create graphics for. Simply enough,
except the user guide
was crap. I decided that I could do better and spent my
own time
creating a template, rewriting, reformatting and adding
in the graphics.
I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do it.

On the Monday I gave the client one original user guide
with only
graphics added and also my version.=20

As it turned out the person worked for BHP and they
liked my version of
the user guide. That same week I was offered a new
career and flown to a
diamond mine west of Townsville to write a user guide
for one monster
piece of machinery - one of the biggest "Front End
Loaders" in the
world. I even got to drive it!

The beauty of all this was that once I completed my
research at the mine
I was then flown home and I spent the next month
writing the user guide
at Noosa. Too easy!

I spent up to 3 years doing that.

Those were days!

So simply take the opportunities when offered to you
and if they aren't
any then create your own!

=20
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