I'm getting my first geological job. getting the foot in the door . Had an interview this morning with a woman doing research on groundwater levels and all the minerals and everything in it. She said I have the job if I want it, and I'd pretty much just be doing lab work (half of the time just cleaning bottles and whatnot), but once a month they go out to the site and take samples, then the following week analyze them all. Seems like a pretty decent introductory job.
the second job has to do with water well drilling logs, and finding permeable intervals. I have the interview for that tomorrow afternoon. This job would be nice, as it would give me a full 40 hours during the summer (which I want, the first job only gives 20 or so) and pay is almost twice as much. But we'll see what they say tomorrow.
oh yeah, forgot to update. I got it . starts on Thursday. Sounds like I'll pretty much just be going back and forth between driller's logs and a spreadsheet on the computer while sitting in the coldest room in the building (so my eyes will be going bad and I may slow down from body parts freezing).
No field work though, which is less fun. But I'd make as much money from now until the job will likely end in late June as I would from the first job from now until Christmas, and as a college student it's just hard to pass that up (I'm not completely money oriented, in fact as long as I make enough to pay rent I don't care, but the work I'd be doing on either job isn't inherently "better" than on the other, so no weight could really be put into that). Plus it's within an organization that makes it easy to get another job somewhere else in the place once one job is over.
. Had an interview this morning with a woman doing research on groundwater levels and all the minerals and everything in it. She said I have the job if I want it, and I'd pretty much just be doing lab work (half of the time just cleaning bottles and whatnot), but once a month they go out to the site and take samples, then the following week analyze them all. Seems like a pretty decent introductory job.
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Good luck with the career move.
Gus
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How did the other interview go?
Good luck indeed!
Jon
Geologists are gneiss!!
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oh yeah, forgot to update. I got it
. starts on Thursday. Sounds like I'll pretty much just be going back and forth between driller's logs and a spreadsheet on the computer while sitting in the coldest room in the building (so my eyes will be going bad and I may slow down from body parts freezing).
No field work though, which is less fun. But I'd make as much money from now until the job will likely end in late June as I would from the first job from now until Christmas, and as a college student it's just hard to pass that up (I'm not completely money oriented, in fact as long as I make enough to pay rent I don't care, but the work I'd be doing on either job isn't inherently "better" than on the other, so no weight could really be put into that). Plus it's within an organization that makes it easy to get another job somewhere else in the place once one job is over.
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Well done, sounds great!
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