Some post career fair observations from a friend

drunkenbeagle said:
I'm sure you can elaborate. "Yes, my instrument and CFI. I learned more from those experiences than all of the checkrides I have passed combined."

You might get a follow up giving you an opportunity for a positive response, or it might move on. "I didn't realize what I didn't know, I studied it and it may have saved someone's life when XYZ happened 2 years later." I am nearly certain all of us could give an honest answer similar to that regarding a checkride bust.

Interviews are an opportunity to paint yourself in the best light. The circumstances and questions don't matter -- you are already talking, that's the hard part. Getting there. The answers are what you control. Think about the message and impression you want to leave, and work backwards from there.
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Elboration is fine, but most people are fairly unskilled with speaking about a perceived negative. If it takes more than a couple minutes, max, to describe the failed upgrade (compared to ten-plus minutes), you're doing it wrong! :)
 
Derg said:
Elboration is fine, but most people are fairly unskilled with speaking about a perceived negative. If it takes more than a couple minutes, max, to describe the failed upgrade (compared to ten-plus minutes), you're doing it wrong! :)
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Is “Elboration” the same thing as elaboration? :biggrin:
 
killbilly said:
Anyway - I ran with a couple of different BBS packages before settling on PC Board - which was the defacto standard by 1988. Ran door games, message content, had two phone lines (I was a privileged kid) and couple of Everex 2400 baud modems. Was *just* about to get into FIDOnet and start syndicating message content when the family abruptly packed up and moved from Atlanta to Dallas and, being teenaged and of short attention span, I shut the thing down and started focusing on other things.
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I never liked PCB or WildCat. I tried a bunch of stuff before settling on Renegade as the basis for my RPG BBS in NW Florida ... Fidonet linked, fido-style net I created for other RPG BBSes and TW2002. Then I connected up a node to the internet, then moved the whole thing to Linux.

Those times, they were good times...

The scenes exploded and became incredibly diverse....I don't think any one story of the times was really quite right because no story has enough scope to cover how drastically different things became in different places. Look at us - we had VASTLY different experiences only 3-4 years apart. The pace back then is what's normal now...but our hair was blown back because the sheer scope of capabilities was opening faster than we could take it in.
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Honestly, the pace has fallen back off again after the early 2000s. Now we're just stacking stuff on top of stuff.

-Fox
 
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Acrofox said:
I never liked PCB or WildCat. I tried a bunch of stuff before settling on Renegade as the basis for my RPG BBS in NW Florida ... Fidonet linked, fido-style net I created for other RPG BBSes and TW2002. Then I connected up a node to the internet, then moved the whole thing to Linux.

Those times, they were good times...



Honestly, the pace has fallen back off again after the early 2000s. Now we're just stacking stuff on top of stuff.

-Fox
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I remember that brick called Computer Shopper had pages and pages of BBS listings.

Once the crowd got into multiplexing and multiusers, the one line/one user guys couldn't hang on.
 
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