Bragging rights?

I was recently sent to help a company who's onsite DBA wanted to point out upon meeting me that they had "18 years of experience". This person then proceeded to impress me by not being able to build a two-node RAC cluster when given two weeks and all resources including root access on the servers. After several more "impressions", this person resigned and has not been heard from since. I should have kept in touch because wherever this person goes, there is a contracting opportunity. Bottom line, if you are too concerned with talking the talk, you probably can't walk the walk.