Rune Allnor wrote:
> Stan Pawlukiewicz wrote:
>
>
>>I was lucky when I workd for the Navy. I was working for an ONR
>
> sponsor
>
>>on a program that required a bit of theoretical knowledge and at the
>>same time going to grad school part time. The work and school
>>dovetailed very nicely. The theory was for lack of a better term,
>>practical.
>
>
> That's a very efficient way of learning, isn't it? I did basically
> the same thing. Worked for an oil company, trying to solve a very
> practical problem by means of theoretically heavy DSP.
>
> On the plus side, one learns a lot very fast. On the down side,
> few other people appear to have similar experiences. So it's
> a problem capitalizing on this kind of experience in the long term.
> The theoretical people see one's practical experience. The
> practitioners see the theoretical side. And the laymen see a
> voodoo whitch doctor.
>
> Oh well.
>
> Rune
>

You never know what portion of your resume will get you an interview.

An agency sent my resume out "shotgun style".
The CEO of a small company saw it and *to quote him* just had to meet
someone who could demonstrably claim such a strange academic and work
history. He didn't think I would accept the job. But he did want to meet
me. Looking back, perhaps I should have taken the job, not because it
was so great ( it wasn't ), but to work for someone with that attitude.