Job interview tomorrow!
Hi folks
Would you believe I have a job interview tomorrow. Yes, that is right, I may soon no longer be a train driver and will possibly be a Train Simulator Operator and Assessor. In a ways my dream job that I have waited for a lot of years to come up.
While all this is very exciting and holds great prospects I know that my chances are slim. In fact they are so slim they are possitively annorexic. I am up against a lot of people who are already assessors within my company, which I have so far not even been offered the chance of becoming. I do have one ray of hope. I can blag like a champion and am a past master in the fine art of "Bullshit Baffles Brainery". Plus I am rather good with computers.
All I now need to do is nobble everyone else who has an interview....
So a few happy thoughts and good wishes will not go amiss.
All the best
Iain
Good Luck Iain 
Good luck indeed.
Dreamjob eh? So just what does a Train Simulator Operator and Assessor actually do?
Good Luck Iain, hope you get your dream job, don't think I'll get mine......as it would need an endless supply of beer, some supermodels (not airfix ones) and an industrial sized vat of Satay sauce 
good luck
What the job entails is simply creating situations on the simulator that would be too difficult or dangerous to create on the running line and testing the driver on how they deal with them. These kind of things happen all the time, slippery rails, signal failures, sticky toffee paper on the rail, that kind of thing generally. The good thing about it is you can now test someone on slippery rails without having to use an old section of line and a shit load of washing up liquid (which they use to do) and its perfectly safe because you cannot physically crash.
Thats it in a nutshell. But the details are a tad more complex. And the machine is a total behemoth. Two traction cabs, Parabolic screens with two projection monitors for each and run on four networked PCs for each simulator. Wheeeeee. Lemme at it!
Good luck with the interview. An unusal job indeed.
Good luck, make sure you test for the wrong kind of sprouts on the line.
Well, the interview went well I think. Now its just a waiting game to see what develops.
I remain hopeful in the meantime.
Fingers and toes crossed.
Yep, all the best for that.
When will you find out for sure?
