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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2625266" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>My wit's a bit more like a battered and rusty tire iron that I try to wield like a rapier, but thanks for the complement anyhow. My Texan-ness, on the other hand, is unassailable. Although some folks up here do doubt that I'm really a Texan because my accent isn't strong enough. Hello! We didn't all grow up on the set of <em>Dallas</em>! And yes, I did just call that Dr. Pepper a Coke. What do you mean you don't have Dr. Pepper, and do I want root beer? What kind of question is that? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />!!!!!</p><p></p><p>Yeah, it was a two part questionaire for me. I had this acquaintence who was finishing his Ph.D. in paleontology, and used to give me his sob story on occasion. When I told him that he got to be a professional dinosaur guy; how cool was that? he told me about this friend of his, who's career path split following their undergraduate. The guy had a Joe Suit corporate job, but he made more money and did more actual paleontology on his off-time then he hoped to do in his job as a paleontologist. This other guy apparently also had a sexier girlfriend, better hair and ripped abs, although I was never clear on whether or not his career choice had anything to do with that.</p><p></p><p>I kept that in the back of my mind when I started my MBA thinking that I'd go get a Ph.D. after that, and then get a cushy professorship job somewhere, and make bookoo money on the side as a business consultant. Somewhere in my first semester my native cynicism came through, and when I realized door #1 was four <em>more</em> years of school, who knew how many more years of busting ass to get tenure after that, at some podunk rinky-dink college in a podunck rinky-dink town, to get much less money than I imagined, and door #2 was, hey, I can start at $80,000 at this job in Detroit, working for a major company, bossing suppliers around, and I'd pretty much have to show up to work with a gun and start shooting people to get fired, I changed my tune pretty quick, and told academia to kiss my behind.</p><p></p><p>I probably should have reserved a bit of my native cynicism for that job offer that sounded almost too good to be true (keep in mind: Detroit) but overall I don't really regret my decision at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 2625266, member: 2205"] My wit's a bit more like a battered and rusty tire iron that I try to wield like a rapier, but thanks for the complement anyhow. My Texan-ness, on the other hand, is unassailable. Although some folks up here do doubt that I'm really a Texan because my accent isn't strong enough. Hello! We didn't all grow up on the set of [i]Dallas[/i]! And yes, I did just call that Dr. Pepper a Coke. What do you mean you don't have Dr. Pepper, and do I want root beer? What kind of question is that? :):):):):):):):):)!!!!! Yeah, it was a two part questionaire for me. I had this acquaintence who was finishing his Ph.D. in paleontology, and used to give me his sob story on occasion. When I told him that he got to be a professional dinosaur guy; how cool was that? he told me about this friend of his, who's career path split following their undergraduate. The guy had a Joe Suit corporate job, but he made more money and did more actual paleontology on his off-time then he hoped to do in his job as a paleontologist. This other guy apparently also had a sexier girlfriend, better hair and ripped abs, although I was never clear on whether or not his career choice had anything to do with that. I kept that in the back of my mind when I started my MBA thinking that I'd go get a Ph.D. after that, and then get a cushy professorship job somewhere, and make bookoo money on the side as a business consultant. Somewhere in my first semester my native cynicism came through, and when I realized door #1 was four [i]more[/i] years of school, who knew how many more years of busting ass to get tenure after that, at some podunk rinky-dink college in a podunck rinky-dink town, to get much less money than I imagined, and door #2 was, hey, I can start at $80,000 at this job in Detroit, working for a major company, bossing suppliers around, and I'd pretty much have to show up to work with a gun and start shooting people to get fired, I changed my tune pretty quick, and told academia to kiss my behind. I probably should have reserved a bit of my native cynicism for that job offer that sounded almost too good to be true (keep in mind: Detroit) but overall I don't really regret my decision at all. [/QUOTE]
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