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[PJs]

Boy you guys cover a lot of ground quick. The cul-de-sac is feeling like a circle track at speed.

First, TM I wish you the Very Best in getting something that suits your skills, acumen and pays accordingly for them. I had the same feeling like Frank that things were heading south by your frustration with dipstick 1 & 2. Resume's are an interesting thing to me and found that a more bullet point single page with a cover letter is what most HR's are looking for. The key to me is in the cover letter and letting them know you walk your talk and how your acumen will benefit them. On the other side of that, most of the jobs I have taken have either been offered or because I Knew I was going to work there and went in, looked em in the eye and shook their hand and off it went.

The toughest resume driven one was with DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) back in the late 80's. I wanted to move more into computers and communications electronics so I could use my edumucation and knew an engineer there. Got called for an interview...Oh my 9 different people, 4 of which were an inquisition panel over two days about 4hrs each day...grueling to say the least. I was pushing forty then and told them what I wanted for compensation...mainly because they wanted me to go to China to oversee their new manufacturing facility and work with the engineers there...a month at a time, several times a year for a couple of years. Would have been a great opportunity at some level but had just gotten custody of my son...which I would have to have worked out. They made an offer about 15% lower than I wanted. Bottom line was they hired a newbie just out of school, paid him chump change and probably road him till he dropped. Funny too because DEC sold to Compaq in the late 90's because the China thing didn't work out, at least from what I heard. Whew, dodged that bullet. Best of Luck Bud!

Paul; I have to say thank you for bringing some good light to the DPLA link. I look at foot notes too in wiki but not all the time, but this time it really took me down the rabbit hole and researched them the donors, staff, projects, etc. Some Great donors there with Cred. Mostly I was impressed by reading their strategic plan. They have a tough row to hoe with infrastructure and legal/metadata but the heart and purpose is in the right place in my book. I won't give them my email address but if I had any $$ to donate I would.

As for boring some of us (What?) are you kidding? Hopefully I'm not the only one that really loved hearing about all that stuff you did back when core memory was a Big Deal and hand made, let alone hooking mini's together via I/O...Oh My fun stuff I bet. CPM at the end of its time is about as far back as I go, then Osborne's, worked with a couple of Cupid Systems...till now i7, but would love to have a dual Xeon for my graphic box though. I am curious what language you used for your equations(?) or was it all in some machine language...don't know much about the Nova's if that is what they were. That flow analysis software I worked with was probably a descendant of some of the stuff you guys came up with back then. Sorry I get carried away (or should be) but would love to hear more any time your up for it.

Also thanks for great story and the insights on your friends 3 gen pump business...Those are some Big Pumps! Family stuff can be a bit daunting through the generations but sounds like they handled it well as a tight knit family starting young.

C-Bag; Glad you got your book and hope you get some good stuff from it. Too Bad about the aberrations but it happens with unskilled scanning and PDF generation.

My hat is off to all of you here and on this forum...This Labor Day should be a celebration to us all for what we've brought forward over the years. Happy Labor Day! Salute!!

Till Then,
~PJ