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Date: | Mon, 25 Dec 2000 14:25:31 EST |
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I knew what the problem was Ken, I was just being sarcastic. If you were
6'5" they would have said you were too tall.
The FD height requirements were not dropped until sometime after 1973,
incidentally.
In a message dated 12/22/2000 6:53:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> i don't know the requirements of a fire man/woman, but a insurance
> underwriter is a destjob using mostly statistics. all that is required is a
> average amount of brain power. i will not go into it, but, i could make a
> case of having more than average brain power. i don't think that height
> would be as nessessary for a fire man/woman as would strength. i have know
> short people that had plenty of strength and knew how to leverage it that
> could have matched any of thoue tall guys.
> it was in the spring of 1973. even if there was a valid requirement,
they
> had my height and weight on the application before they ask me to come to
> winter haven for a interview (at my time and expense, i might add). if it
> was height they should have looked at the 5 ft 6 in. on their form and not
> have called me. no, i think it was that the jerk that interviewed me could
> not make hisself confortable with the cerebral palsy.
>
Betty
aut viam inveniam aut faciam
"I will either find a way or make one."
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