Well, good that it worked out, but maybe that is not the ideal circumstance for being offered a job?

First, thanks for your remarks and your time. It's a genuine reassurance to have decades of experience looking over your shoulder.

Heh.

Yeah, if I had some strong professional links I wouldn't bother. But all my professional links are military guys whose recommendation is "he's like the smartest computer guy I've ever met!" So, this might be the last resume I send, unless I decide to change to another industry I have absolutely no contacts in again.

Snarky, but you're a no-go on current events since a. Obama is probably going to win and b. IT is the one sector that's weathering the current storm pretty well.

Wow. He made a hiring decision based on that? Why couldn't he just join a club or something?

At any rate, the fact that I can honestly say that I've jumped out of planes for a living makes my resume interesting to the point where I'm trying to get away from that.

Pff, anybody can jump out of a plane.

It takes a special someone to be able to reach 3NF.

Right on! I'm expecting some Wall Streeters to start any day now.

-PatP

He may also of noticed the long list of relevant database systems I'd designed and built for various banks but I can't be sure.

I disagree. If you think economy class is bad, the Air Force is worse. Leaving aside the fact that they kick you out halfway through and you have to walk the rest of the way... They're always late, the plane (or chopper) is noisy as all hell, there's no inflight movie, no dinner or snacks (not even peanuts!), you can't plug in a laptop, no legroom whatsoever, and you can't even get up for a bathroom break.

But the number one way you can tell your airline sucks: when the safety lecture includes "in case of a towed jumper..." Buddy, you'd better cut me free because if I have to haul my ass back inside that plane you are gonna get such a whuppin'...

We Brits call that Terminal 5.
Sounds like economy class to me.
Economy class without the two obese passengers conveniently sat either side of you.

Now I'll disect that analysis, step by step (I've done this before).

Technically, they only kick the first guy out. The jump line then pulls the rest of the guys.

You rarely get to walk. I've always been way too busy for that.

There have been times when they've been early. Then you have to improvise for a day or two before the support troops arrive. These jumps are called "interesting" by the survivors.

Planes and even choppers are quiet compared to hostile ordinance.

I've seen their in-flight movies. You are better off without them. When intel arrives in-flight, that's a REALLY bad sign.

I've never seen a jump without MREs. The jumpmaster claims that you can eat any of them, but I have not been convinced.

Every jump, as the line forms you plug your lap top into the next guy's lap bottom.

There is plenty of leg room on either side of the jump line track. It is just awkward getting your legs situated there.

I've never considered taking a bathroom break once the door is open, although I remember a jumpmaster that did just that after the last jumper was out (every trip).

Towed jumpers... After due consideration, I won't even discuss that issue.

-PatP

I thought you were short of time these days?

Whatever happened to "Don't ask, don't tell"?

Blood tests are quick and easy. Other tests need to cook, and the techs will happily let me borrow a machine to browse the web so that I don't upset their customers.

As for the rest of my diatribe, there are some really awful references that sco8y will get, but I don't think anyone else at DBForums will get. There's a lot of "gallows humor" hidden in that missive.

-PatP

You are, indeed, subtle and devious.

I have been piecing Pats resume together over the years (I am on page 58) and now I have to add paratrooper.

BTW, I hope you are OK.

Nope, never been a paratrooper. Although I've been around long enough to be HIGHLY annoyed that black hats are now standard issue.

-PatP