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No doubt, you're right about that. Thanks for your insight.

A woman, without her man, is nothing. A woman, without her, man is nothing.

QuoteThis is called targeted selection where I come from. Been through two interviewer trainings on it. No hypotheticals, no how do feel about. It's all "Tell when you DID this or that" Theoretically, it sounds like a good idea, but I guess my problem with it is that I don't trust the wisdom or judgement of the person doing the interviewing to have the ability to piece together a valid picture of what I'm about.

[Those kind of crap - CANNED - interview questions are a real hallmark of weak managers. If you can't turn an interview into a reasonable conversation that compares mutual needs, then do you really want to work for such an unimaginative person in the first place. I think you just nailed it. Behavioral interviewing allows any interviewer to take a list of questions from a book and ask them to any applicant regardless of the industry or discipline. No thought or preparation required.

Here's my situation: I have an interview next week and I am confident that it will be like a couple of others I have recently had in which they adopt the current fad of "Behavioral Interviewing." That is, they toss out questions like "Give me an example where a course of action you proposed was not accepted by your team, but you were able, through your leadership, to convince them to adopt your course of action after all and what was the end result of that course of action." It is my opinion that this style of interviewing serves only to indentify the best actors and liars among us and wastes valuable time that could be spent identifying the skills that the job requires and determining my match for same. Is there anyone out there that that can: 1) Give me advice on succesfully interviewing in this idiom 2) Give me an example of how they were able to wrestle control of such an interview and bring it back on a more productive path I already have a great job so I won't mind taking the calculated risk of attempting to guide the interviewer onto a track that would be to my advantage, by subtle means or otherwise. Thanks, Ken

Tonight I was gluing the pads inside my Pro-Tec helmet and I needed something round and heavy to hold the pad in place while the epoxy set up. I went out to my front garden and picked up an ancient granite 3/4 grooved hammer that we have in the garden for decoration. Basically, it's a sledge hammer that's at least 1,000 years old. I'm not an authority on the subject, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was more like 5,000 years old. Someone gave it to me about 12 years ago when I used to make arrowheads from flint for a hobby. Now think about it: Over 1,000 years ago some guy made this hammer from a granite cobble that he picked up from a river. When it was made, it was the the technological equivalent of our computers. This was a person that made it in order to increase his chances of survival. He could not conceive of the plastic that my helmet is made from, much less, aircraft or the means or the desire to safely jump from one. He surely could not imagine that we would have the leisure time to spend hour after hour communicating in these forums over esoterica such as the virtues of an RSL or the wording in a Skyhook advertisement in a skydiving magazine. Where will our tools be 1,000 or more years from now? Will my Pro-Tec helment be decorating the garden of the next (or the next) millenium's suburbanite's garden? Will my altimeter be hanging on the wall of the Cracker Barrel of the future? ?

Don't be quite so radical, put some charcoal dust all over the lining, then put the helmet on. Take off helmet, use some wet and dry (I'd reccomend 400 grade at first, then switch down to 200 for the last one) and sand down till it fits. Repeat and rinse as nessacey. I see. Like inletting a gunstock!

[For anyone who has never tried a round, I highly recommend finding out why Bill Booth viewed the ParaCommander as the pentultimate parachute. Blue skies, Winsor My first jump was on a Para-Commander back around '83. It worked great. Is there anyone that collects REALLY old gear just for fun that may not be ariworthy? Not to jump, just collect?

Better yet: Plane my head!! Thanks!

Any ideas on how to loosen it up? The foam seems extremely dense. Does it soften up over time? Preemptively Edited to add: OK perverts, you know what I meant. Does the FOAM soften up over time

On my refrigerator My son found it in the paper and hung it there while I was out of town. He said that he thought I'd get a kick out of it. Can you scan it?

Saw this at the DZ Saturday. Dark, but funny: A man and 2 kids are standing in their yard. About 10 feet in front of them is a skydiver in belly flying position about 2 feet from impact with the ground. The caption says: "Look kids, a skydiver" Does anyone know where this is posted? (other than the bulletin board at my home DZ)

So, when it was all said and done, did you have a lot of FUN! That's what I'm hoping for

I just did my last S/L, first FF on Saturday. I was really scared, too. Once I got on the plane I was fine. You'll do fine, too and then wonder what all the worry was about. Ken

Yes, they had me look at the ripcord handle before I reached for it. I did 4 practice pulls before I did the real thing Saturday. Looking never did break my arch, but I was always afraid it would. The one thing I have been doing wrong has been doing the paractice pulls way, way too fast. On two out of the four I beat the canopy. They made me do those over again. My instructors always tell me that I have plenty of time to take my time and do it right, but not enough time to do it fast and do it wrong. I've also been told that "Slow is fast and fast is actually slow." He told me that he wants me to do my next one in five distinct and seperate steps: Arch, look, reach, pull, arch, that total five seconds. If I do that next time, I can move on to ten second delays. Another thing that was a little bit worrisome was that all of the rigs I did my practice pulls on had orange ripcord handles. The rig I jumped in my first freefall had a white handle. Luckily, I saw it no problem. It feels great to have it behind me. I've been worried about it all summer.

[ Also, you might fix your profile. You definitely are not an instructor, and probably not a rigger. Who says I'm not? Well, OK, I'm not. It was great. Nice to know it works without the S/L. Ken

Finally!!! Did my first freefall today. It went great. The weather was perfect, except for absolutely no wind. Need to get a few more jumps in so I can jump my new rig. That will be the next big hurdle. Ken

That did the trick. Thanks!!

I weigh 190 and I'm 5-11. Won't be F-F'ing any time soon. What should I look for? Thanks

Yes, but the only way to stop a zombie is to shoot it in the HEAD!!!

I keep hearing the term "muscle memory." There is no such thing. It would be more appropriate to call it subconcious control or some otehr term that gives credit to the brain. Muscles have no capacity for anything like memory.

Dude - you spent like two minutes writing that up. Get back to work!! Yes sir. Sorry about that.

This thread indicates to me that there is an over abundance of leisure time among DZ.com readers. Could someone send some my way? Ken

Sold!! I bought it. It will be on the way to my rigger for a thorough inspect in the next day or two. Thanks for all of the advice.

Is that a phobia or gear preference?