In the immortal words of Paul Vixie (vixie@vix.com):
The trouble is, often times I'd rather hire the world's smartest garbage man. I never forget that when I got done interviewing for my first full time programming job I went back to my job fixing cars and pumping gas, and my fallback plan in case programming didn't work out was driving a tow truck (which paid better than either.)
*blink* You are the second person to tell me this story, almost word-for-word verbatim, including the detail about the tow trucks. The first person was Eugene Kashpureff. (Indeed, Alternic, Inc. was actually a d/b/a identify of his towing company.) It's a small, and very strange world. -n ------------------------------------------------------------<memory@blank.org> Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete stangers to kill again. (-- TV listing for the movie, The Wizard of Oz, in the Marin Paper.) <http://blank.org/memory/>----------------------------------------------------