The Other Side

Back in junior year of college, one of the more promising job presentations/interviews I went to was for Molex, a large maker of connectors that was located in Lisle (or was it Downers Grove? Somewhere close to Darien I remember). The position I interviewed for was basically kind of a technical sales/support consultant, which would require me to learn everything about the connector products, and be able to deal with customers about choosing the right connectors, answering their questions, that kind of thing.

Well, obviously I didn't end up getting hired there, otherwise I probably wouldn't be here working for Northrop Grumman right now. The interesting thing is, Molex is (among others) one of the major sources for connectors that we buy in building stuff here. And as it turns out, my job position here requires me to deal with those kinds of technical sales/support consultants at companies like Molex. But after some frustrating experiences, I must say that I have begun to really hate those guys. They either don't know jack, or give you half-assed answers to important questions, and usually are not very helpful at all.

How weird is it to think that had things worked out differently a couple years ago, I might have found myself on that other side as one of "those guys" I hate. I wonder if that was the case, would I be annoyed with "those systems engineers" from customers like Northrop Grumman, that keep calling up or emailing stupid questions for me to answer. I also wonder whether or not any of these people I deal with were the same biatches that got hired over me back in those days. Hmmmm.....