I just haven’t been managing my time well this week at all. Apologies.

Honestly, I’ve been looking at this for half the day and trying to figure out what the heck to say about it. Fit is looking to hire a new designer, and it…could…be…you! Well, assuming you can use Solidworks, which counts me out. (I like that it’s posted on the RIDE UK site but not on the Fit site. Are a lot of would-be BMX designers located overseas? Would it be worth posting this on Monster.com? Craigslist? It’s also pretty funny that the contact person is Moeller and not Robbie.)

There’s a lot to pick apart. Like “college degree or comparable education.” What does that even mean? That you got within a couple of credits of your engineering degree and dropped out to support your ill hamster? School of hard knocks? I also love the “just in case you are currently working for another company,” which implies all kinds of potential for espionage and treachery. I suppose if the next generation of Fits have all kinds of holes mitered in them we’ll know they snatched someone from Eastern. Or Volume. Maybe the new guy will want to do track frames! I can hardly wait!

(Overall, it does make you—or at least me—wonder what sort of qualifications most designers at BMX companies have. Are they all engineers? If not, did they all at least study engineering at some point? Or is the closest some of them have come to engineering is the time they watched Thomas the Tank Engine by mistake?)