Lf gov't job opening (UPDATE: it's been filled!)

[nlambrecht]

This interview was posted on NPR last week and updated today, at the end it states that they will not decide until late spring or summer:

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/27/464603...xt-ansel-adams

[goamules]

And I thought the President had the most important job in America. This LF Park Service job will be the most remembered opening of the decade. And may never be filled....or some smart consultant will talk to them about an easier, cheaper way to fulfill the goal. The continual postings on all photography sites reminds me of those ads in the back of Popular Science in the 1970s: "US Gov Jeeps for $20!" Everyone liked the premise, but no one ever got the jeep.

[Drew Wiley]

People did buy military Jeeps pickled in big drums of oil, cleaned off everything, reassembled them, used em for years in my neighborhood. They were a lot better built than Jeeps today and popular with gold miners and ranchers. Of course, you had to make your own seats etc.

[goamules]

OK, bad analogy. How about Sea Monkeys?

[Nodda Duma]

Kids got some sea monkeys for Christmas last year and I actually saw them grow

[photonsoup]

OK, bad analogy. How about Sea Monkeys?

I raised lots of sea monkeys from eggs. It was quite fun. Then I found out that they grew wild in The Great Salt Lake, we would get mom to take us a couple times a year to net 10 or 12 pounds, rinse off the salt and freeze them. Best tropical fish food in our world.

(They are brine shrimp, and the SL variety are much larger than the San Franciso Bay brand you could buy at the pet store)

[Wayne]

I loved my Sea Monkeys but would have settled for a jeep.

[Mark Sawyer]

So you guys are saying a Sea Monkey in a Jeep got the NPS photographer's job?

[Corran]

I received an email here today about this job. It said that while I was "qualified for the position," I was not "among the most highly qualified candidates." Not surprising at all as a person my age simply is unable to have had some of the experience they asked for in the questionnaire, and I certainly was not going to lie on that. If others did, that may get found out. Accordingly, the email stated that if more candidates were needed, I may be referred at a later time.

Anybody else?

[goamules]

Standard HR Happy Words. They won't tell you that they had 8,000 applicants, or that they decided not to fill it, or any other thing. It's basically a form letter. Usually a post card, those are cheaper for them.