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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Commissioning and Troubleshooting Field Engineering for a large pump company- yeah, mostly anyplace there’s oil, gas, water and power processing. I’ve only got a couple states I haven’t been to and only a couple continents left - travel is overrated unless it’s VietJet :-)


20 posted on 04/01/2017 2:50:15 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: atc23

As a young guy learning the trade the travel was good - and fun. Doing environmental and engineering stuff, started off with a small company but worked from Vermont to Florida, Texas to Iowa, and most places in between.

Then went with a larger company (and larger jobs) which meant weeks and months out of town and overseas. It suck when my son was young. “Oh - so he walked today! That’s great!” I was never around.

Got laid off, and the day it happened I knew that was the best thing that could happen! Started off on my own and was able to be around most of the time. (Well, early on it was because I barely had any work! But with a new baby girl that was a good thing.)

Now I still get the occasional trip overseas, and a few weeks out-of-state at a time, but not the constant field work like before.

But for a young person gaining knowledge and getting to see places, it is pretty good.


21 posted on 04/01/2017 3:02:53 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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