Reviving an old thread (since I have so many on here, no need to start a new one).
From Nick's screwball thread:
4 1/2 hours and not ONE smart remark!
Well, in the continuing saga of my career....
I'm going to work in a Nuclear power plant this fall and I am being given what THEY call "uncontrolled and unsupervised" access to the whole nuclear generating plant - including to the reactor/plant control room.
Monday is psych/drug/alcohol testing and safety training. Tuesday is "site indoctrination and dynamic learning". I guess I passed the background and credit checks today, because they emailed me the syllabus for next week and assigned some homework to be done online in the next three days to bring me up to speed.
You cannot imagine what we are getting paid to put a new radio system in that place!
The list of interesting places my job has taken me is quite long. But "Homer Simpson's office"? This takes the cake!
Last week I was at a Major League Baseball stadium planning a new system for them.. interesting, but way less security than a Nuclear plant.