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Charles Harmon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2021

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Quit a Well-paying Senior Electronics Position for a Trainee Job?

Submitted to Contest #95

Charles was a senior electronics technician working for an aviation company in Southern California back in the early 70s. It was an interesting job diagnosing aircraft navigation computer problems, then repairing them or having other technicians repair them. One day he received a mysterious phone call on the job. It was from someone, unbeknownst to him, asking him if he wanted a computer programmer trainee job. The gist of the conversation was for Charles to just go on the interview and he’d get the job. Was this a joke or what? ...

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