potrerohill

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by potrerohill 18y ago
Thanks for your reply. I am very interested in maritime activities. One project I did a while back involved nautical electronics and I was supremely envious of the people who actually got to go out to sea for testing. By the way, here is th
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by potrerohill 18y ago
I don't have a problem with that criticism. I posed the question the way I did because I thought I'd get better feedback. Mentioning the "serve my country" part of the decision has caused a lot of crazy arguments for me in real life, so I l
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by potrerohill 18y ago
I guess it can't hurt to apply.
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by potrerohill 18y ago
Realize, however, that bait and switch is common Yeah, I've heard that. That's why I was thinking coast guard. There are 8000 reservists and only 400 are "active." Of course I might get activated but it seems like most of the work to be d
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by potrerohill 18y ago
slipped discs. I don't know if they let people into the military with that. if not, then i guess this discussion is moot.
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by potrerohill 18y ago
I have an LLC that is just me. I do a mixture of electronics and software consulting. I do OK, maybe a little bit more than I would if I was a senior programmer at google or yahoo. (or maybe not) I would like to do more electrical engineeri
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by potrerohill 18y ago
I have a degree in physics. In fact, the job ads on craigslist were for reserve officers. This one is for Tacoma, but was essentially the same one I saw for SF back in April. http://coastguard.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/job-details/26481
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by potrerohill 18y ago
I'm actually less interested in the money. I had the idea to join about a year ago, but kind of gave up on it. I just read the article about the loan literally about an hour ago while I was on the bus, so it got me thinking about the reserv
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Ask HN: military reserve for startup owners?
14 points by potrerohill 18y ago|38 comments