As you may have experienced, when you tell people your college major, they get a puzzled look on their face and shrug their shoulders. Almost everyone I know whom I've informed pretty much did the same thing. Strangers tend to say "okay" without real acknowledgement or curiosity. I have to explain to them what the whole thing is about, using as few words as possible, so I at least know what I'm talking about and don't sound quite as stupid. I say "industry writing" or "technical documentation" to name a few "synonyms" (which are pretty much the only ways anyone will understand what I am studying). Otherwise, I try to avoid the topic altogether and focus more on something else. This lack of knowledge begs a few questions, then:
How many people actually major in this?
Is it because technology is so new that students are so scarce?
Are other majors too glamorous, popular, or economically rewarding for anyone to acknowledge an entire major that is important to an emerging technological world of information?
I suppose no one may know. Someone should do research. I feel like one of the Free Masons. They're as mysterious as the technical communication people.
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