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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I’m really good at finding flaws in things. It’s not that I’m trying, I guess I just use things differently. A colleague of mine told me I should be a tester for product development to help find the problems when I asked him why some software worked the way it did. He just said, “I don’t do it that way.”

    Consequently, I’m excellent at writing manuals because I always write them in such a way that no one will make the mistakes I did. The real bummer is I HATE WRITING MANUALS.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      4 hours ago

      Oh god i would honestly be so good at writing manuals. I absolutely hate most manuals i read, because you can often tell that the guy who wrote it was also part of the team that build the thing, so often they explain it in a way that makes sense to him and his team, but not the end user.

      I often write short manuals for my sisters for a lot of her appliances. So at least she appreciates my talents.

    • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      I am this way. People think i’m being negative, but i don’t mean to be. Problems just jump out at me. Luckily, I found a job where this tendency is valuable.

      People who write good documentation never know how much they are appreciated.