I <b>was</b> a Mineral Analysist! I got to dress up in a nice orange suit and push dimentially-altering substances into beams of zappy stuff causing "Resonance Cascade Failures" on a regular basis.
Oh.. wait.
Dang
In real live it involved weighing out 5 grams of coal into these little containers and then putting them on top of bunsen burners untill the coal puffed up. I then matched the puffed coal against a profile and wrote down a whole bunch of numbers.
I also burned holes in my pants with Hydrochloric Acid whilst washing hundreds upon hundreds of little bottles in a big container.
And I made what I like to call "Fustrating Little Pieces Of Crap" things. They were technically called "Ash Fusion Tiles". They invoved making a little 1CM high pyramid of coal ash, watching it fall over and starting again (repeat to taste), putting it in a tube furnace and pointing a camera at it. Later I got the estemed privelage of watching the 30 minute videos and noting down at which tempreture they melted. Fun stuff.
The easest part was when I got to do "Total Sulpur" on a batch of samples. It involved weighing out a bit of coal onto a "boat" and pushing it into a machine that went "Boop" after a while and told me a number. I then wrote down this number. Repeat 33 times per sample and do 4 samples per day.
The best part was when I got to clean out about 30 metres of coal-dust encrusted cupboards.
The moral of the story: Mothers, don't let your children grow up to be lab workers.
me name be Jeff. Jeffery Pritchard is what me name tag will say, and Jeffrey Pritehard is what your reciept will say(damn computers.....).
Anywho, if you do come in, dont expect me to be very sociable... im just not that type in person. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> And intoduce yourself as "that guy from natural selection" so that Im not confused as hell. Next day I work is on Friday...
Retired grade 8, auto signed up as grade 9 in september, will be looking for my first real job this week. any one know a McDonalds that's looking for someone to clean the ovens in the Vancouver area?
Gonna start at McDonalds are ye? I don't know what minimum wage is there, but working at McDonalds in Alaska will only get you $5.65 an hour. Our minimum wage is one of the lowest in the country! I think they are hiring it next year though...
I have no clue how low that is but that sounds bad. There was actuly talk by the B.C. government of making a <i>second</i> minimum wage here that would apply to anyone who had under a certain amount of work experience, something like 300 hours i think. That would realy tick me off.
As of today I'm gonna quit my crappy job because the pay is bad and I don't like dealing with people...at all.
"I want you to bag this in 2 paper sacks" this is after I pack like 10 items in a plastic bag.
I dropped ONE frickin peach out of a sack into a cart, and this lady blew up "Watch what your doing, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE and get outta the way!" I kid you not!
Another old lady yelled at me because I took her cart to put away, and she wanted to "walk" with it to the door...
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Oh.. wait.
Dang
In real live it involved weighing out 5 grams of coal into these little containers and then putting them on top of bunsen burners untill the coal puffed up. I then matched the puffed coal against a profile and wrote down a whole bunch of numbers.
I also burned holes in my pants with Hydrochloric Acid whilst washing hundreds upon hundreds of little bottles in a big container.
And I made what I like to call "Fustrating Little Pieces Of Crap" things. They were technically called "Ash Fusion Tiles". They invoved making a little 1CM high pyramid of coal ash, watching it fall over and starting again (repeat to taste), putting it in a tube furnace and pointing a camera at it. Later I got the estemed privelage of watching the 30 minute videos and noting down at which tempreture they melted. Fun stuff.
The easest part was when I got to do "Total Sulpur" on a batch of samples. It involved weighing out a bit of coal onto a "boat" and pushing it into a machine that went "Boop" after a while and told me a number. I then wrote down this number. Repeat 33 times per sample and do 4 samples per day.
The best part was when I got to clean out about 30 metres of coal-dust encrusted cupboards.
The moral of the story: Mothers, don't let your children grow up to be lab workers.
--Scythe--
<a href="mailto:the_only_scythe@subdimension.com">the_only_scythe@subdimension.com</a>
OW!!! ######, that pun hurt ME too!
Anywho, if you do come in, dont expect me to be very sociable... im just not that type in person. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo--> And intoduce yourself as "that guy from natural selection" so that Im not confused as hell. Next day I work is on Friday...
"I want you to bag this in 2 paper sacks" this is after I pack like 10 items in a plastic bag.
I dropped ONE frickin peach out of a sack into a cart, and this lady blew up "Watch what your doing, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE and get outta the way!" I kid you not!
Another old lady yelled at me because I took her cart to put away, and she wanted to "walk" with it to the door...
I envy you RBY...$10 for busing, sweet.