Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I'm sure there is some inherent level of comfort with self-employed folks in that industry...ie, their work or reputation is known or hard to fake.
Or maybe all they care about is that you can sell something, including yourself

Well, it is a very small industry, so people tend to know each other. I suppose that makes up for the lack of diligent background investigations. Also, you do have to show your actual work samples. Although there's also the advertising version of falsifying logbooks, which would be trying to pass off another guy's work as your own. I caught someone doing that once. What he didn't know, was that the work he was presenting to me as his own, was actually my work from a few years back.

I sort of enjoyed that interview...