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Anybody work in the Aerospace industry?
I got out of the Navy to go to school for Petroleum Engineering but I keep coming back to Aerospace for a number of reasons. I also just enlisted in the Air Force Reserve as a Space Systems Operator. Just looking for some insight into the field.
Saw that job posting on LinkedIn.Originally Posted by Honey Badger282.8
Our own (OG) Honeybadger is a space jockey.
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Yo yo yo! (I prefer Satellite Pilot, but Space Jockey doesn't sound too bad either...Saw that job posting on LinkedIn.
Our own (OG) Honeybadger is a space jockey.)
Shoot me a PM if you want to chat. I'm active duty AF and I just spent 4 years at Schriever working with lots of folks from difference parts of the space industry.
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I'm in the industry as well. If I can answer any questions for feel free to PM me.
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Do you get to wear the 30" zipper too?
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
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Yo yo yo! (I prefer Satellite Pilot, but Space Jockey doesn't sound too bad either...
Shoot me a PM if you want to chat. I'm active duty AF and I just spent 4 years at Schriever working with lots of folks from difference parts of the space industry.Sweet! Will do.
Apparently that ended a few years ago. I flew in helicopters in the Navy so I've had my time in a bag. I will miss them, most comfortable uniform ever.
Never trust a dude with a 30' zipper.
Last I knew satellite pukes sometimes wear flight suits. You know, in case of a keyboard fire. I hate the damn things. I only wear them when I fly.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
Only missile weenies wear them now... and it's mostly to appease them because their job is the shittiest job in the AF. Everyone else in AFSPC wears ABUs every day (as of 2012)
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
The career field is still authorized bags but AFSPC decided to stop issuing them as a cost-saving measure so the only time you should see space pukes wearing bags anymore would be if they're assigned outside the MAJCOM (and the ADCON unit has the funds to buy bags). I saved mine to use when working on the car -- maybe I'll actually get to use them again one of these days (haven't had much time to do anything other than change wiper blades and check tire pressure).
I did Aerospace Engineering for 1 year at CU Boulder. Not what I expected. The "glory" of aerospace engineering died along time ago. Aerospace engineering is nothing more than a un glorified mechanical engineering degree and a bureaucracy. If you are smart enough to be an engineer you are better spending your smarts on something that is more demanded in industry. The other thing I realized and yes this view sucks, but if there are no war's there is no defense spending. I would stick to Petroleum Engineering or change to Chemical. I work in oil and gas right now. Even though the price of oil is down there are still plenty of good engineering jobs in the oil and gas industry.
If you want to really go into space system I would recommended electrical engineering (which is 1 of my degrees), computer science, or applied physics. These can still get you into space systems but even if you decide not to go this route you can move to another industry very easily.
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