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    #11
    Originally posted by doodab View Post


    I'm not considering turning it down. If I'm offered it I will take it.

    It would be a good career move. Although it might result in extreme boredom.
    If I get really bored, which is quite often, especially in long meetings, I make little ticks on a piece of paper for every euro entering my bank account. Then sometimes I go for a 20 euro dump. Sad, but it works for me.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #12
      Originally posted by doodab View Post
      If someone phones you up and offers you an airy fairy handwaving job, although you consider yourself a concrete technical sort of person, would you go for it if the money was good?
      Just show me the money, son!

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        #13
        Originally posted by doodab View Post
        Nothing that concrete. I would basically be stating the obvious. Several times. Probably until my patience wore thin.

        Even if I were utterly technically incompetent the chances of anyone noticing would be exceedingly slim.
        There are a great many profitable Blue Chip Companies whose hierarchical structures are awash with people performing such roles. Just take the money.
        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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