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Old 11-09-2011, 07:37   #20
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Originally Posted by plato View Post
Worked a "not in my field" job for 8 years. Applied for my very first engineering job, and when the HR type asked what I'd been doing for the 8 years since graduation, I told her "jumping out of aircraft and killing folks". Got the job. .
As someone who sits through a lot of interviews, I can see how that worked. I might have responded, "Can you start tomorrow?"
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