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To: antiRepublicrat
I also know a nuclear engineer who had to do a lot of UNIX programming as part of his engineering job.

And remember, that there are a lot of people who are responsible for computers and networks even though their job title has nothing to do with them.

A friend and former co-worker had the job title "Missile Repair Technician" while he was a Sr Airman stationed at Whiteman AFB. However, he never actually worked on missiles. He was too busy running amd maintaining their networks! He was responsible for both Novell networks as well as UNIX networks where the servers were a bunch of big HP-9000 systems.

Mark

363 posted on 01/30/2005 7:30:15 PM PST by MarkL (That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
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To: MarkL
A friend and former co-worker had the job title "Missile Repair Technician" while he was a Sr Airman stationed at Whiteman AFB. However, he never actually worked on missiles.

That happened to me in the Army too. I was a missile jockey and one day the first sergeant came down to the motor pool to say "I heard you know computers a bit." I said yes, and the next thing you know I'm working at battalion HQ. Next station I'm supposed to be an executive admin assistant (don't ask), but then I find myself programming database applications and WordPerfect macros to keep the headquarters running.

368 posted on 01/31/2005 9:16:34 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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