Though everyone i talk to probably knows my story these days, I won’t let that stop me from introducing my new job.

My job title is Electrical Engineer. I have just begun work for C&C Technologies and will be working on their surveying equipment known as the AUV (here is a c&c commercial that introduces the AUV).

Now that you know that, I will not be talking much about my work at C&C on this website. I have read of many people who lost their job from blogging too much about it, and though I’m not at all the type to talk bad about my current employer, the specific technology I’m working on is largely confidential. Plus, I think I’m going to love this job, and it would be easy to let sensitive info slip out while gushing about my experiences.

At least one exciting thing that I’ll be able to share is the world-travel. This year I am going overseas for C&C, and though I can’t say where yet, I am pretty excited. My friend Paul has been getting sent to Europe for work, and he reports that it’s less than awesome since he’s gone so often and for so long. I don’t know exactly what I’m going to think about it. I was in france for a month on vacation… speaking french was the hardest thing about it, and i loved the heck out of it. I would love to post photos of my travels and even of my workplace, but i’ll have to see exactly how much is “legal” to post.

If my job were aboard a ship on Star Trek, I’d be a Science officer. That’s kinda neat. Do science officers have a promotion path to captain?

This past week i’ve been in the classroom attending OSHA and maritime safety classes, getting certified to drive a truck, fight fires, administer CPR, rig cranes, survive in the ocean, and many, many more things. For each of these training sessions, i’ve actually done hands-on work, like rigging a load on a crane and signaling a crane operator, or floated around doing exercises in a training pool for a morning. After all that, and after 5 1/2 years of an engineering degree, I still know that I’m going to show up on Monday and know next to nothing. I don’t even know what my day-to-day activities are going to be. I know they are going to be changing depending on the projects i’ll be working on, and it will involve laboratory testing and researching, but before I can even get there I’ll need to get a crash-course in how the AUV works.

All in all, i’m pretty excited about my career future.

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