# A request for help, monetary or otherwise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271 "2012-08-12T15:39:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/21 "2012-08-13T19:29:35Z")
I’m just surprised to hear you say there are no openings in technical writing for electronics - that’s my field. All those TV operating manuals don’t write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/22 "2012-08-13T21:08:00Z")
I have an idea for a webcomic, if that’s any help: its called Badly Drawn Rabbits Talk Wryly About Steve Jobs And Shit. Seriously, it could be huge. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/23 "2012-08-13T21:13:44Z")
Are you just going to copy XKCD and give the stick figures ears? If so, I’m in. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/24 "2012-08-13T21:46:49Z")
Check your PM, **Sunspace**. Glad I could help. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/25 "2012-08-13T22:33:50Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > Are you just going to copy XKCD and give the stick figures ears? If so, I’m in. No, but I do know someone who can draw really shitty rabbits. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/26 "2012-08-13T23:42:29Z")
**Lamar Mundane** , the ebooks would be a ‘nice to have’. But the web-programming skills behind them should improve my employability even if I never make an ebook. I have seen so many “tech writing” jobs that demand online programming skills… I had one employment agent practically begging me to have had some websites in my portfolio. **Morgyn** , my pre-writing experience is as an electronics engineering technologist. I am not an engineer; that would have been four years at university instead of three years at college. But I have built and repaired electronics. Though not recently. I can PM a resume if you’d like… 😉 Thank you, **Maastricht**. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271/27 "2012-08-14T03:06:32Z")
You can learn Web development without college. Everyone I know that does it professionally (including myself) learned it on their own. All of the tools are free, or less than $1200 (if you absolutely must use Dreamweaver, which you shouldn’t), and there is an overabundance of free information about it online. Any question you could ever ask a professor you could Google and get answered in minutes. If you need a Web portfolio you just come up with an idea and build a Web site for it. You’ve got time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-request-for-help-monetary-or-otherwise/631271.md?page=1)