15 years
In 1987, I was finishing my robotics Ph.D. at Georgia Tech and ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
patgreene had been admitted for that autumn to law school at Stanford, so I was looking for aerospace automation-related jobs in northern California. An interview with Lockheed led to nothing, in part because I expressed a lack of enthusiasm for getting a security clearance. An old NASA Ames phonebook was in the GT placement office, and I started cold-calling. Strangely, this tactic worked...
( Where I went, and a few things I did there over the ensuing fifteen years )
patgreene had been admitted for that autumn to law school at Stanford, so I was looking for aerospace automation-related jobs in northern California. An interview with Lockheed led to nothing, in part because I expressed a lack of enthusiasm for getting a security clearance. An old NASA Ames phonebook was in the GT placement office, and I started cold-calling. Strangely, this tactic worked... ( Where I went, and a few things I did there over the ensuing fifteen years )