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Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sun May 02, 2021 4:56 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
Hello there from over the pond. You are all making me jealous of those 3D printers. Here in the US, I once interviewed for a job in far southern Virginia. It was an intimidating interview, and I was only 25. I was put at the end of a large table with seven others grilling me for a job at a technical college. I handled the questions, but one caught me by surprise.
Q: "What do you think about teaching in a medium security prison?"
Insert embarrassingly long pause here:
A: "medium secure."
They offered me the job anyway, but I had already nabbed another one.
Many years later, a colleague, a high-powered philosophy professor, told me of his early teaching days in similar institution. He and his students exchanged the most effective means of making fake farting noises in the bathrooms.
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Wed May 05, 2021 12:12 am
by EAO
Hello Lee,
A bit belated, but glad to have you with us! Enjoy!
Cheers,
Eric.
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Fri May 07, 2021 10:11 pm
by tc9571
Herr Dr. Professor wrote:Hello there from over the pond. You are all making me jealous of those 3D printers. Here in the US, I once interviewed for a job in far southern Virginia. It was an intimidating interview, and I was only 25. I was put at the end of a large table with seven others grilling me for a job at a technical college. I handled the questions, but one caught me by surprise.
Q: "What do you think about teaching in a medium security prison?"
Insert embarrassingly long pause here:
A: "medium secure."
They offered me the job anyway, but I had already nabbed another one.
Many years later, a colleague, a high-powered philosophy professor, told me of his early teaching days in similar institution. He and his students exchanged the most effective means of making fake farting noises in the bathrooms.
thank you
You had a lucky escape !
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Fri May 07, 2021 10:11 pm
by tc9571
EAO wrote:Hello Lee,
A bit belated, but glad to have you with us! Enjoy!
Cheers,
Eric.
thank you
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 6:32 am
by HERMAN BIX
Dorset............Isn't that where "5 go mad in" ??
Great to have you along mate
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 1:40 pm
by tc9571
HERMAN BIX wrote:Dorset............Isn't that where "5 go mad in" ??
Great to have you along mate
That's an old piece of comedy ! Does that make me old if I can remember it
and thank you
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 2:23 pm
by Herr Dr. Professor
"all the kits,paints and bits and pieces that you forget you need until you see them."
Spoken like a true modeler!
(I did that yesterday: oh, look at the bottom line on that receipt!)
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 2:49 pm
by Dr Phibes
Herr Dr. Professor wrote:"(I did that yesterday: oh, look at the bottom line on that receipt!)
Don't!
Nothing good ever comes from looking at that bottom line. You've already done it, enjoy it
And welcome to Lee in Dorset btw, I'm next door in Hampshire
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 7:09 pm
by tc9571
Herr Dr. Professor wrote:"all the kits,paints and bits and pieces that you forget you need until you see them."
Spoken like a true modeler!
(I did that yesterday: oh, look at the bottom line on that receipt!)
Don't show the wife
Re: Hello from Dorset UK
Posted: Sat May 08, 2021 7:10 pm
by tc9571
Dr Phibes wrote:Herr Dr. Professor wrote:"(I did that yesterday: oh, look at the bottom line on that receipt!)
Don't!
Nothing good ever comes from looking at that bottom line. You've already done it, enjoy it
And welcome to Lee in Dorset btw, I'm next door in Hampshire
Thank you
i'm almost in Hampshire....about 3 miles from the border !