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Did I mention that I love my job?

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:31 pm
by D_Hall
So all this week I've been on a business trip. The highlight of the trip came this afternoon where I got to take the following video....


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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:53 pm
by warhead052
Incredible. How did you get this job? (aside from years of education...)

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:01 pm
by D_Hall
I just answered a job advertisement like anybody else and had the right resume.

Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:56 pm
by Technician1002
Nice test fire. It could fool someone on the other side of the hill that a volcano just blew. ;-)

I like my Job too. Not quite a big dramatic show, but over half of the users of SF are using what I helped design. It has something to do with what is between your keyboard and the Internet.

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:19 am
by LovableAirGuns
Whats your job?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:09 am
by inonickname
LovableAirGuns wrote:Whats your job?
I think you need to do some looking at D Hall's previous threads.

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:57 am
by Hotwired
D_Hall wrote:So all this week I've been on a business trip. The highlight of the trip came this afternoon where I got to take the following video....


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LovableAirGuns wrote:Whats your job?
Giant smoke bomb tester.

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:56 am
by LovableAirGuns
I think you need to do some looking at D Hall's previous threads.
Or you could just tell me ;)

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:14 am
by warhead052
Hotwired wrote:
D_Hall wrote:So all this week I've been on a business trip. The highlight of the trip came this afternoon where I got to take the following video....


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LovableAirGuns wrote:Whats your job?
Giant smoke bomb tester.
I wish I had access to smoke "generators" that big. (Lets leave the 4 letter b word out :wink: )

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 11:35 am
by Fnord
I wish my job involved blotting out the sun... Not quite as clean as an oxy-hydrogen engine test is it :) ?


Also, that old news video about IRC networks you posted was hilarious.

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:54 pm
by jrrdw
How many glue sticks did they use to hold that down? Or was it some of JSR's epoxy??? :P

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:15 pm
by D_Hall
LovableAirGuns wrote:
I think you need to do some looking at D Hall's previous threads.
Or you could just tell me ;)
Short version: I get paid to test weapons for the military.

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:03 pm
by Gippeto
jrrdw wrote:How many glue sticks did they use to hold that down? Or was it some of JSR's epoxy??? :P
Naw...bubble gum...2 ton of double bubble. :lol:

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:14 pm
by D_Hall
Fnord wrote:I wish my job involved blotting out the sun... Not quite as clean as an oxy-hydrogen engine test is it :) ?
Not quite, but an oxy-hydrogen engine would have been pretty dirty too. Much of that cloud wasn't smoke, but was rather debris that simply got picked up. Shortly after I put the camera away the cloud was over the top of us and it was raining sand and pebbles.

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:25 pm
by ramses
D_Hall wrote:
LovableAirGuns wrote:
I think you need to do some looking at D Hall's previous threads.
Or you could just tell me ;)
Short version: I get paid to test weapons for the military.
What is your actual job title?

So when people ask me what I wanna do when I grow up, I can sound dignified :D :D :D