h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Nice to meet you count zero. I'm dim26trav the muse of all transdimensional travelers and sometime electronics expert.

I worked at Rockwell Int'l to help build the space shuttle back in the 80's, and the GPS also. Although trying to find work now is a bitch. Having only traveled through Houston as part of an airplane transfer I dont know much about it, just that it is smoggy and humid and I dont ever want to live in a place like that.

My version of a dream job would be to work at JPL on the unmanned flight ops in Southern California (I grew up in that area) now I live in the greenery of Salem Oregon. I follow all their activity on the Internet. There was a time when I would have bitten off my left hand to work at NASA directly but that has passed. Especially when MY Challenger was destroyed by some idiotic bureaucrat who cared more about the schedule than the lives of the astronauts. BOO HOO

Hiya... Yea, I got a bit lucky (with some perserverance). I happened to resubmit my resume right after the contract bought a scanner I knew how to operate. Of course the fact that I had been resubmitting my resume for over 5 years may have helped.

With the aerospace industry in a funk, I've been looking for quite awhile now. I am being considered for a position with a company called Garmin Industries. They make and service GPS navigations sytems for general aviation, and they're in my home town so the commute will be negliable. I am hoping to find out today (or soon) whther or not I'm being picked up.

Whilie coming to visit Florida for a launch might be a wonderful experience (especially since they only launch with good weather) I would not ever consider making a life there. Too many hurricanes for me. I'm much more comfortable with earthquakes than hurricanes. Houston on the other hand is another case altogether. Hot and sweaty only begins to describe it (they have hurricanes occasionally also). And smoggy reminds me of Los Angeles on a bad day. JPL on the other hand has their command center in the hills above LA and good weather nearly all year round.

I'll just remain happily here in the Northwest even if I have problems with finding work. There is only a few more years before retirement anyway.

I have been keeping tabs on both the cassini probe and all of the Mars mission stuff on the internet, great pictures and they found two new moons of Saturn last night!!

Got to go now keep in touch.