I passed my color vision test with flying colors. Technically, that's the only way to pass it.
New Year, New Recert
Recertification, eye exams and resolutions that last until the first cold job. For every industry. 14 jokes.
I read the new edition of the code book cover to cover. It's a real page turner, and I did turn every page.
Why does every inspector's New Year's resolution start with 'find my certification card'?
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It lives in a different truck every January.
What's the first thing a Level III checks in the new edition?
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The revision summary, then the paragraph numbers, then the revision summary again.
What's the best thing about a calibration sticker?
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It's the only calendar bolted to the instrument.
My eye exam is renewed, my hours are logged, and the year is eleven days old. I have peaked.
The new edition is the old edition with one paragraph changed, and the Level III found it first.
You might be an NDT tech if your New Year's resolution is to find your certification card, and you have made it every year since you got it.
Dana resolved to renew her certification early this year. On January 2nd she opened the folder and found her eye exam record, her hours log, and a sticky note in her own handwriting: 'Do this in January.' She stared at it for a minute, then picked up the phone and booked the exam. The sticky note, for the first time in its life, went in the trash.
New edition day:
sticky notes all find new homes.
Highlighter, ready.
Resolution (n.): A January promise to read the new edition cover to cover, and the one promise that comes with an index.
Nobody warns you that the best part of a new edition is the revision summary on page one.
Ever notice that the recertification deadline is a year away until it's three weeks away, and then it's the only thing anyone talks about?
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Edition.
Edition who?
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Edition to the old code book, you need the new one. Check your shelf.