charged silver lining
Nothing like spending 25+ straight hours working with folks for getting to know if you're compatible, as my latest team(*) said to me sometime over the last day. At one point the PI was complaining about not being able to find someone to work in his lab, and I said, "I'd love to work on hardware." (Mostly mumbled... it kinda just popped out!) They freaking took me seriously and started asking me about my soldering skilz and how they could get me on the team. Would that be freaking rad? I'd be willing to be a lab rat 3rd Class just so I could get to do the tiniest step in making flight hardware or things like changing cryogens in experiments. It'd be awesome just to see hardware instead of paper, paper, and more paper. I'd probably get sent to soldering school and anti-static school. And maybe even get to go to Japan! Sounds pretty cool. Likely to happen? My guess is not. But the idea they'd even express interest is very flattering.
[Downer note: found out that ALL my major projects from 2007 are FULL of FAIL. Major heart-ache team was not selected (not too terribly surprised) again (10th year of trying), and the no-Shuttle-rides team has to re-submit because the peer review committee has a conflict of interest. WHY they aren't changing the reviewers rather than having major amounts of work redone, I do NOT get. Grr.]
(*) Awesome team! Geeky, motivated, super smart, pleasant/kind to one another, hardcore Mac users, good sense of humour, hard-working, laid-back in a good way, into healthy/hot spicy foods. We're apparently having an "its done" party on Fri... it'll be interesting to see them in a non-stressed situation.
[Downer note: found out that ALL my major projects from 2007 are FULL of FAIL. Major heart-ache team was not selected (not too terribly surprised) again (10th year of trying), and the no-Shuttle-rides team has to re-submit because the peer review committee has a conflict of interest. WHY they aren't changing the reviewers rather than having major amounts of work redone, I do NOT get. Grr.]
(*) Awesome team! Geeky, motivated, super smart, pleasant/kind to one another, hardcore Mac users, good sense of humour, hard-working, laid-back in a good way, into healthy/hot spicy foods. We're apparently having an "its done" party on Fri... it'll be interesting to see them in a non-stressed situation.