What do you do for work?

not sure if you want to stay in AK or not but there should be plenty of work in oil & gas...at least for a Mechanical Engineer...but O&G service companies will hire you with a Civil

 

Well, I dont know enough about the high-end machines to be able to tell you for sure. I have seen a 1' x 1' x 3' block of steel turn into something that looks like a engine block with turbine blades fins on it. I think the planning on something like that is ridiculous. While I have built my own mini cnc router at home (see garfish307 on youtube if interested), and no machining dummy, they wont let me touch or snap pics of the prototype machine shop. It is fancy and resembles a clean room more than it does a machine shop. Having started as a field engineer & running tools offshore, I am more of an engineering advisor for design projects.

All that said, we don't take any outside work that I know of...

 

Received an email today that told me as of next week I'll be working for the USPS.
The only part that sucks is I'm currently on a cruise ship and I'll go into training 2 days after I get back, and I'll have packing to do before I leave and a 1,000 mile road trip to complete just to get to where I'll be working.... I think it'll be a fun challenge though.

 

Congratulations on the new job!

What'll you be doing for them?

 

Thanks, I'll be delivering packages on sundays, some saturdays and all postal holidays.
@nDub

 

Postal service is a great career if you can put up with the politics. This can be a lifetime job, rare in this age.

 

I have 2 friends who just recently retired from USPS. They both loved what they were doing and said that if they have to choose again they will do the exact same thing. Both were letter carriers.

 

Is it hard to get into USPS?

 

Yeah, it has the potential to be a career if I so choose, however I would like to go into law enforcement, this job is something for me to do while I submit my application for the PD and go through the interview process, I could also keep the job while I'm in the academy if I wanted to.

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Depends on where you're at, the city I'm going to had 18 positions open (all part time) whereas the city that I'm leaving had 2-3 openings per year for part time.

 

Depends on your area and what you apply for. City carriers have a higher turnover than rural carriers. I've applied a couple times to a few locations. It took them a couple months to call back, and when they did, I was already hired somewhere else. Since you can't get into a career position at first, you have to work part time where they can only guarantee one hour a week. I've heard it can take as short as a month to 10+ years to get a career position.

 

Anyone else work in the power industry?

 

Not directly, but 90% of our public sector business goes to power plants to neutralize emissions. I work for a co-op, so we take care of our members first. The farmers.

 

I worked in an oil and gas plant for a couple of years. That was back about 10 years ago

 

What kind? I've been in Oil and Gas operations for 20 years this August.

 

Shipping, receiving, stockroom, tool room, and some operating in a medical/aerospace machine shop. Before that, 2 years in electrical manufacturing but then that place of a giant corporation got shut down. Trying to get into a CNC Field Service Tech at a company my buddy works for. Gotta go where the money is...

 

Professional Wakeboard Coach. Part time Renovation newbie

 

Licensed A&P/IA aircraft mechanic, I'm now an aircraft maint Quality Control Inspector for PAE Aviation and Technical Services, LLC contracted to Federal Law Enforcement

 

Electric/utilities and that nature. What exactly in oil and gas operations?

 

i build shit plants.

 

Nice.

Who do you work for? CH2M?