Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] So you want to work for National Geographic
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:42:28 -0800

><Snip> 
> You spend half you professional life away from home.
> You contract weird and wonderful diseases.
> You fight for contracts and copyright with everyone who is trying to rip
> you off.
> 
> I, personally, have had malaria,dysentery and dengue Fever.
> I've been robbed by corrupt soldiers (and robbed by editors)
> Lost track of how many times I've had a gun held to my head.
> Watched colleague get beaten to a pulp and not been able to do a damn thing
> about it.
> Gotten drunk with Serbian soldiers just to make "friends".
> Been shot at in Sarajevo.
> Left stranded on the side of the road in Zaire.
> Had my Domke camera bag stolen by a 1000lb Harp seal.
> Had a led truncheon inserted between the 10th and 11th vertebrae by East
> German riot police... which I still feel to this day.
> Did I mention the tear gas and pepper spray? ...nasty stuff.
> Gotten a lung infection for burning toxic building materials.
> Been TOTALLY lost in north west Rwanda at night.
> Bribed some unknown guerilla force in Central Africa to get through a
> border crossing... still not sure which side he was on, but he had the gun
> and controlled that stretch of road so...
> 
> ..><Snip> 
> Greg Locke ><Snip> 
That's one heck of a list Greg! Better than any resume I ever saw! All I ever
got was death threats from angry boyfriends!!
Mark :-) Rabiner
Was this M's or R's?!!