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Brit1275

Brit1275

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Got my first real job (by real I mean like a career)!!!

Got my offer today with Boeing to be a Flight Test Engineer. Basically I go up for airplane rides everyday in large airliners, collect data, travel the world, etc. You know, its basically the coolest job in the entire world. And I'll be making loads and loads of money (although I don't know how much yet)
 
HAH! Gotchu beat! GI JOES!...

thats pretty damn awesome, does this mean you won't be spending very much time at NS.com anymore?
 
WTF?

i bet i will be making not too much less than you, $15/hour buckin hay bails. it gonna suck. but hey, its been like 3 months since i bought a new pair of skis, im gonna need money for skis next year and maybe a press to make my own.
 
that is much much less actually. like... much less.

and the internet comment was a joke referring to NS, and i will be attending the mountain of hood this summer as well, how long are you down there chris? my ski-withdrawls are already REDICULOUS.
 
through labor day dude, come down soon, you can still lap the chair right now, probably will be able to for a few more weeks
 
yea, no shit, as a starting flight test engineer you will probly be making 40-50 grand a year. Fuck when you arnt flying 30,000 ft above the ground you will be so rich. of course the IRS will take about 15-20grand of what you make, and you will be in the planes testing all the stuff to make sure it is safe, which means that they dont know the plane is safe when you go up, But you are still going to be filthy rich.
 
its normal hours mostly, but there are odd days off, and technically Boeing pays hourly, so you do get overtime (most engineering jobs you don't). And with flight test often theres weekend work, so you get over time.

$57k
 
Congrats Brit, you'll be making more money than most because the hours are LONG (ie: Overtime). Hopefully I'll meet you on a flight test. I work 777 A/C Packs as an Engineer. Holla.
 
Chris is down there sitting with his thumb in his ass in govey cuz it's raining...

I have you all beat... I am BACK at renton KV on weekends and working in the bellis fair food quart at ivars during the week in addition to summer school... I hate my summer plans but it's going to pay off in the winter when I have no responsibilities

Congrats on your kickass career sean!!!
 
Or get a scholarship, where they pay you a nicely sized stipend for research you were going to do over the summer anyways.
 
Just had to brag some more. I have my own desk, its big, I work with super cool people, and I will be flying next week already, doing high-g and negative g manuevers..... yeah, its most certainly the COOLEST job ever. I even have my own headset and flight bag! hahaha
 
You're going to puke on your first flight, just wait....

Actually, I'm really envious, I should ditch this science shit and start in the Aeronautics Department...
 
you'd be surprised... My boss there was in love with me and has been for 2 years. it wasn't a big deal and i ignored it until he threatened a coworker who was at a party and flirting with me. then that really freaked me out and I decided to quit. but after that I found out that 2 more coworkers, one male one female, really want to have sex with me... my boss brings alcohol to work and drinks it while on the clock because he's an alcoholic but won't admit it. I have a sexual harassment lawsuit sitting in the palm of my hand and I'm trying like hell to decide if I should file or not. this is in the past 3 weeks... and it's only the stuff that has to do with me... there's tons more drama too. don't be fooled, kidd valley people looooovvve the drama....
 
^thats pretty hardcore intense

BUT Sean!! Thats amazing!! You're doing what you love, and youre making a ton of money...not many people can say the same
 
This is what I did at work today..... I threw up a lot at the end....

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yea it is. they had to make sure the tracks wouldnt move on permafrost.

beiring straight is like 60 miles wide (there are some tiny islands though). i wouldnt be hoping for a bridge over that sucker quite yet there rowen
 
Actualy Grant I have seen designs for a bridge over the beiring straight, the main problem is not the distance but the moving ice, they can get 1000's of tones of ice moving over 30-40 miles an hour through the straight, the force of the ice would cause any curent bridge support anywhere in the world to break in aproxamatly 30 seconds. but the design that I saw had each support about the size of lake union, with most of it being solid reanforced concreat and it was a fully inclosed highway for the road, basicaly the ting would cost more then NASA has spent in the last 10 years. So yeah it is a long time off considering that anyone who would use the bridge would probably rather fly. However i could see plenty of chinese people trying to use it rather then hiding in shiping containers.
 
Woohoo for the History and Discovery channels!

The Bearing Straight bridge is def. possible, and would be a very useful structure, as we could pump oil directly from Asia, and would make trans-pacific shipping much cheaper. Give it some more time so they can figure out the whole ice thing, and it'll be created. They already have a huge bridge linking Denmark to Sweeden, so length wont be an issue.
 
My thinking on the matter is it is much more efficient from both an economical standpoint, as well as a logistic standpoint to ship by boat rather than some mega bridge. Alaska isn't exactly the most populated area, and certainly neither is the Asian side of the straight. Imagine a viable shipping transaction from say the US to China, it would have to go all the way through Canda, through Alaska, across the uber-bridge, then all the way through Russia and down into China. The fuel alone for such a shipment would cost more than shipping by boat, it would only be slightly quicker, and the cost of such a bridge...... don't even want to think about it.

Airplanes. duh. Who needs bridges???
 
Wright desinged a mile high tower, which really isnt all that efficient. The distance by itself isnt the issue, its the type of distance. The cost would be so astonomical, and so would the maintainance, that it really isn't practical. Sending 1,000ft long ships acorss the pacific is more economical

a bridge would be cool, but... that kind of takes away from the remoteness.
 
It would be more about the pipelines that run next to and under the bridge than the traffic. And shipping isnt cheap at all, especially with the statistics of how ships can lose cargo in storms and even sink. Anyways, despite all that, you have to admit that a bridge would be freaking cool.
 
Oh don't get me wrong, as an engineering achievment it'd be fucking amazing. Some of the best engineering has been impractical nonsense, but still. It's too far out there in la-la land. France has the worlds longest (and tallest?) bridge, I really wish I had gone to see it when I was there (grant.....)
 
it is about 1/10,000 containers that fall off. no compare that to the number of auto accedents that happen, more economical to ship the stuff.
 
It wouldnt be car transport that would be the big deal, it would be the rail lines and the piplines that cross it. Car transport would be there just for kicks really.
 
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