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Originally Posted by mjohnson
I work with a few graduates of our state's tech school - the best of a pretty not good state education-wise I guess (though I think the kids from NM State are the most solid of the locals).
More than a few younger ones proudly state "I didn't go to xxxx for four years to go do that..."
An older gent myself, or at least I graduated in the previous century from another Rocky Mountain-centric tech school recalled that we got beaten into us for all of the six years I was there that there was no job beneath us. If it gets the mine moving again, get in there with that plunger...
So funny - I got a load of crap dumped on my desk today and will be doing some pretty menial stuff for the next few days. My response? "Meh, I've been payed to do worse..." I once spent a week picking through shreddings and garbage for one little mistakenly discarded classified trinket. Whatevah - it's a job.
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I used to be the senior technical advisor for one of the worlds largest oilfield service companies. One of my last projects was electrifying, automating, and customizing a fluid injection unit. Basically, I took and older chem van (semi truck and trailer) and we dumped about a million bucks into it making it amazing. In the middle of a chem van is a spill trough and it was nasty.
When I picked up the unit at the base where it was stored, I needed to strip all of the old controls, hydraulics, progressive cavity pumps, etc out of it before it could go to the fab shop. The sump also needed to be scraped out and pressure washed. I asked if there was a ‘broken wing guy’ (someone on modified duty) or anyone on the ‘5hit list’ that could help me. The base manager thought he was funny to say, ‘nope’.
I was happy to do the nasty job knowing I was getting 2-3x the pay of anyone at that base including the base manager... once the base manager figured out who I was and my reporting structure, I had all the help I could ask for.