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tigra 0
Maybe they are asking if you jumped this weekend because they are surprised to see you alive
Back when I first started jumping and I was out at the DZ every weekend and completely obsessed, I had a manager try to tell me I couldn't jump one weekend because the following week was going to be really busy. (He wanted to make sure I would be able to work!) I just laughed at him! ANOTHER manager (same company) actually let me take an afternoon off to jump. She was cool! Plus I think she understood at that point in my life, skydiving was a HUGE stress reliever for me- it made me a better worker and much more pleasant to be around!
These days, I'm much more low key about it, and skydiving doesn't consume as much of my life as it once did anyway.
if they don't like the fact that I jump then forget them!!! My current company supports my skydiving addiction and it's a good thing!!! It's just good like that! I wouldn't lie. Maybe I wouldn't mention it, but it ALWAYS comes up in conversations!
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Squeak 17
I mention that i skydive to my kids, but not to the staff i work with. for no other reason that i dont talk to htem about my perosnal life period.
The only reason i talk to my kids about it, is as a teaching tool, for either sports, maths, thingyou can accomplish etc.. Most of the kids i deal with dont see it as anything spectacular, the stuff they do on BMX bikes and skates/boards is way more extreme than what I do
But i also dont classify myself as a skydiver, it's just one of the many things i do to occupy my time.
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At my last place of work, I had a woman who would show up everywhere that I mentioned. The park, restaurants at lunch, bars. To avoid the stalking issue, I don't tell anyone where I am on the weekends.
In general, I have gotten tired of the 20 Perfect Questions. Especially, terminal velocity and vacuums.
People want to tell you that they took physics in college and I prove to them that they weren't listening. Never good.
It's like discussing sex with a virgin who just took a biology class.
In general, I have gotten tired of the 20 Perfect Questions. Especially, terminal velocity and vacuums.
People want to tell you that they took physics in college and I prove to them that they weren't listening. Never good.
It's like discussing sex with a virgin who just took a biology class.
Slurp56 0
I've jumped from 18k with no oxygen, won't mention where though. My understanding is that legally above 15,000 you are required to be provided with supplemental oxygen. However, you dont have to use it.
But rules are meant to be broken.
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Jewels 0
obviously it isn't.I stopped talking about anything skydiving-related at work the day my whuffo boss "corrected" me in front of the entire firm to tell me that jump altitude could not POSSIBLY be 12,500', because that would equate to well over 17,000' above sea level and it would be too cold
It does.and require oxygen.
The point is that he could not understand the AGL distinction. By his reasoning, no one in Colorado would ever be able to do anything but hop-n-pops. (We have that little "Mile High" thing going here.) HIS understanding was that "require" oxygen meant that you could not physically breathe; not whether you are supposed to have oxygen or how long you can sit in the plane before it becomes a problem that you don't have it or so forth.
That was the same day they started talking about whether to take out insurance on me.
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The111 1
Legal requirement does not equal physiological requirement. 
Hence my statement that it depends on what you mean by "require"...
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longtall 0
Ive always heard that the percentage /concentration of oxygen (around 21%) is there at higher altitudes; but the pressure (needed to help push oxygen into the lungs ) is the factor that will decrease your (tuc) time of usefull consciousness.................J...............
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aetas 0
I've just started, and don't talk to people except for close friends and immediate family about that I skydive. However my boss asked and I'm not going to lie and he was like cool that's interesting and left it at that which was cool.
My mother did tell everyone at a big family dinner that I skydive and then I got about 5 whuffo talks and it was pretty funny.
edit- And the best talk was: "You're getting certified to skydive?, What do you need a certification in being stupid for? You're already stupid."
My mother did tell everyone at a big family dinner that I skydive and then I got about 5 whuffo talks and it was pretty funny.
edit- And the best talk was: "You're getting certified to skydive?, What do you need a certification in being stupid for? You're already stupid."
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longtall 0
When I first started I remember my dad asking what good is it (skydiving) : can you get a job doing it ?, can you make money doing it!?!....................J.......
" 90 right, five miles then cut."---Pukin Buzzards
skybill 22
Hi Skydave!!,
What a trip! Well, I work in the Parachute bussiness so being a skydiver or talking about it is part of the deal. Not talking about it would be like a cook who won't eat his own cookin'. Anyway, hope your boss gets over it and blue skyz!!
What a trip! Well, I work in the Parachute bussiness so being a skydiver or talking about it is part of the deal. Not talking about it would be like a cook who won't eat his own cookin'. Anyway, hope your boss gets over it and blue skyz!!
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Jewels 0
Legal requirement does not equal physiological requirement.
Hence my statement that it depends on what you mean by "require"...
Exactly. I know my jump numbers don't make me an expert but I do know that asphyxiated frozen popsicle people are not dropping from the sky up at the dz (at least not on a regular basis).
I don't lie to anyone but I stopped initiating conversations about it after that.
TPM Sister #102
I agree the guy sounds like an asshat.
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You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously.
That all the action you're getting these days eh?
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