Wilbur ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Share #1 Posted March 3, 2022 It is like a stain on your soul. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Share #2 Posted March 3, 2022 Comrade Wilbur! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Share #3 Posted March 3, 2022 Better than still working for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share #4 Posted March 3, 2022 23 minutes ago, maddmaxx said: Better than still working for. Yep. 7 long but interesting years. That is a long time to see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted March 3, 2022 Share #5 Posted March 3, 2022 Must have been enough money for all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Share #6 Posted March 3, 2022 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted March 3, 2022 Share #7 Posted March 3, 2022 Point A to point B, cash your paycheck, those are the obligations. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share #8 Posted March 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, shootingstar said: Must have been enough money for all that. More like post 2008 times in aviation. There weren't a lot of options. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted March 3, 2022 Share #9 Posted March 3, 2022 39 minutes ago, Wilbur said: More like post 2008 times in aviation. There weren't a lot of options. Hey, mind the kopeks and the rubles will take care of themselves! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted March 3, 2022 Share #10 Posted March 3, 2022 8 hours ago, jsharrwick said: Hey, mind the kopeks and the rubles will take care of themselves! Like maybe falling down. Article was copied from Globe and Mail, onto another site. I couldn't access through the paywall at G&M. I feel really sorry for ordinary Russians and Ukraines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted March 3, 2022 Share #11 Posted March 3, 2022 9 hours ago, Wilbur said: More like post 2008 times in aviation. There weren't a lot of options. It was a tough time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkpow Posted March 4, 2022 Share #12 Posted March 4, 2022 Was his name Steve? Because I might know an oligarch named Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 4, 2022 Share #13 Posted March 4, 2022 I used to work for a Russian V.P. of Minerec, a Dow Chemical subsidiary, named Val Zolotuchin, a chemical engineer who was born in Chile. A major part of our production, Minerec A, went to the El Teniente copper mine in Chile. So, Val stole the secret synthetic plans from Minerec, went down to Chile, and opened his own plant to make the stuff. Chile's corrupt government protected him. Don't trust those Russians! Minerec was soon relying on the Specialty Chemicals whose low-cost processes I was developing for materials already in existence but expensively made elsewhere including a biodegradable pesticide, intermediate chemicals for pharmaceuticals, and a non-carcinogenic material that made kid's clothes flameproof. Unfortunately, around that time (1980), it was becoming obvious that a lot of the chemicals we were handling were carcinogenic and that Industrial Bench Chemist was the career with the shortest lifespan of college graduates. So I went into teaching at a low salary but with a great pension. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted March 4, 2022 Share #14 Posted March 4, 2022 On 3/3/2022 at 9:04 AM, Wilbur said: Yep. 7 long but interesting years. That is a long time to see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing. I bet it would make for some good stories! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted March 5, 2022 Share #15 Posted March 5, 2022 The professor who taught my Cognition and Learning Class said that when he went to college, a Duchess of the royal Romanov Family, who fled Russia after the Revolution, taught Russian at the college so he took a course in Russian just so he could meet her. Several years later, he's drafted into the air force as the Korean War is beginning and he's sent to a secret U.S. base without any explanation. When he gets there, he's allowed to speak nothing but Russian. It turned out the Air Force picked him because he was on a list on people who studied Russian. After a few months, he's brought up to near-fluent level, trained in air-traffic control, and is sent to Korea. It turned out that a lot of the North Korean MiG pilots were Russian and his job was to intercept radio contact between the planes and with ground control and relay any information he could gather. He said one of his group was so good he spoke Russian without an accent and sent NK planes on goofy missions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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