RE: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory

Great question!

I had an opportunity to work at the Longaberger Basket factory. They hand-make baskets that are sold through multi-level marketing, like Avon and Mary Kay Cosmetics. The factory is very nostalgic. The company is the only company in the one-horse town of Dresden, Ohio. They even have a huge corporate office that's shaped like a basket!

They gave my family a great wine-and-dine tour and the job would have been pretty cool for the right person. But I am a city person and living in that small town would have probably driven me nuts.

I also had a chance to work for a company that operates music stores. That company was probably very much like your chocolate company, but with music. Everyone had offices and each office had stereo equipment. Each week, a memo would come out listing the most current CDs and other products. All you had to do was check the ones you wanted and they'd "magically" appear on your desk. I thought that was cool.

Michael Armstead
Database Administrator, OCP-Certified
Corporate & Finance Information Systems
Glaxo SmithKline

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Orr [SMTP:sorr_at_arzoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:07 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory
>
> Seven years ago I was offered an Oracle DBA job at a chocolate factory and
> turned it down. (Please don't tell Rachel, she already thinks I'm crazy.)
> I
> had two simultaneous offers for the same salary and took the one closer to
> home. While on the interview they gave me the full tour of the factory
> starting with the bags of cocoa beans on the docks. The smell was
> intoxicating and even wafted into the office area where I would have
> worked.
> They had unlimited stashes of chocolate in every cubicle. I asked the
> employees if they ever got sick of chocolate and the answer was a
> resounding
> NO. Now my kids will never forgive me for not having taken the job at the
> chocolate factory.
>
> This begs the question... Where and what are some of the most interesting
> Oracle DBA jobs out there? I heard of one deep underground at a mining
> operation in the middle of the Nevada desert. Database is a basic
> technology
> that can be applied to just about any business anywhere. Any interesting
> stories? Personal experiences?
>
>
> Steve Orr
>
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