What do you do for work?

Civil Engineering, in Drainage for Roadway Design

 

It's dependent / independent probability day and it's a mess of dice, cards, and coins!

 

I work on these POS. Here's a video of my site where I look like a tool... http://www.wcax.com/story/29936209/odd-jobs-turbine-technicians

 

Reading the brief description on the internet, I probably only understood about 3-4 words hahaha.

 

OHHHHHH HELL NO!!!

 

Sr IT manager for Fortune 500 retailer

 

@SpaceTaco @IPNPULZ

I live a few miles away from JSC, and nearby there used to be this little shack of a burger place that was frequented by NASA personnel & astronauts since JSC's inception. The walls were covered in memorabilia and knickknacks dating back to the genesis of our space program. Unfortunately, as NASA's budget kept getting smaller and smaller, so did the crowd. When the Shuttle program died, so did the burger place, and within a year it was bulldozed. All that is left are the memories.

That's freaking cool, but dealing with snow, ice, sub zero wind? No thanks. Come to west Texas and just deal with heat.

 

And stupid ass high winds, along with storms out of no where My wife is from Midland, and her family all live there. We are out in Midland/Lubbock A LOT and it is bout damn crazy out there

 

Lol good point. I love west Texas though; in the small chance I live long enough to reach retirement, I'd like to settle out in west Texas somewhere. Not Midland/Odessa though. Wouldn't want to deal with the schizophrenic oil field-based economy out there.

 

that aint no lie! I would retire round Alpine. Easy access to big bend, El paso or midland/odessa but you are far enough away from the crazy shit.

 

I work in quality control for Michelin.

 

Alpine is a great location for exactly the reasons you stated. Been wanting to bring the wife and take another road trip out that way for awhile now.

I wouldn't mind settling around Abilene or Amarillo either. They're obviously much further north with the latter being in the panhandle, but surrounded by beautiful country nonetheless.

 

Hahaha thanks man. I'm a born and raised Vermonter so the cold I can deal with. The thing is, you can dress up for the cold, but you can't dress down for the heat.

It's funny because I finished up my wind schooling at TSTC and lived in TX for 2 months and applied to several jobs there. Thankfully I didn't get any of them, or else the heat probably would have killed me.

 

TSTC eh? The waco one?

 

Officially no longer a college student, got job offer with contract before I even graduated (2 weeks before my class ended) and am waiting on my background check to clear so I can go for my drug testing, so I can start training.

 

Despite growing up in Minnesota, I'm sure I'd feel the same about living up in Vermont and dealing with the weather. Beautiful state though.

Pretty cool you went to TSTC in Waco. I've known a few folks who went there and they seemed pretty solid. There is also another TW member who attended TSTC for welding.

 

Lol Kase in point.

Pun intended.

 

Dont go to either of them places! Amarillo constantly smells like a dairy farm because of all the Farms around that area, and is just a crapass city. Abilene is a pure shit hole, nothing else needs to be said. If you wanna settle out that way, you should look into Graham or Wichita Falls, hell Vernon possibly.

If yall roll out to Apline or something that way, Hollar at us! We will glady jump in the truck here in the DFW metroplex and head out for a trip!

 

Sweetwater actually. Where the water sucks and literally made students in my class sick.

 

sweetwater is a janky ass town i tell ya