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RE: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory

From: Steve Orr <sorr_at_arzoo.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:48:50 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002D3E88.20010321124619@fatcity.com>

Now how did I know you would say that? :) Sometimes we're crazy like a fox... mostly we're just crazy. :)

Steve

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Carmichael
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:38 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Steve,

I don't think you're crazy......

I know you are :)

Actually I would turn that job down, if only because it would make me crazy to be around the chocolate and know that eating it would make me unfit to work

Rachel

>From: "Steve Orr" <sorr_at_arzoo.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: DBA Job at a Chocolate Factory
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:06:54 -0800
>
>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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