Another one bites the dust
So almost as soon as chris and I rolled into town, someone from the engines branch quit their job to go work for NASA. I didn't know the guy and it didn't really have that big of an impact on me till about now. The engines branch is really young, and he second oldest guy in the branch. However the engines branch all seemed to like each other and really like their jobs. So I thought. It was the aerophysics branch, where I work where people just seem to hate each other and their jobs, and they all talk about quiting. Well finally someone stopped talking and started doing. My boss, who actually was the only happy person there. It came as a huge shock to me because I would have put him as the last person to quit. It put the whole lab in disseray, becuase everyone looked to him as a leader. Only now I really don't know what I am going to do because he ran the experiment that I was doing, and the entire test cell in which I would do anything. The place is going to pretty much shut down till they find a replacement. What was funny is this seemed to have more of an effect on the engines branch. My boss quiting seemed to spark everyone in the engines branch looking for a new job. Apparently, they all knew he was planning on quitting for a long time, just no one in his own branch, which strikes me as funny. Also, the engines branch, who all seemed to love their jobs, don't really, and all want to find another. Maybe I didn't land such a great job after all.
This all I can deal with. I'm only there to learn anyway, and this shouldn't effect how much knowledge I pick up, just might effect wether or not i get published or not. Whats worst is that my very first friend at UC will not be returning next year, or ever. I spent my freshman year with her just down the stairs, and my sophomore year with her right next door. I was supposed to spend my junior year in the same house as her, but now we will spend it in completely different states. I don't think it hit me when she told me. I spent so much of my energy trying to calm her down and make her feel better, that I just disregared how I felt. But now it really hit me. I can only imagine how i'm going to feel come fall and she is not there to greet me. I can only imagine what she is going through. I don't even know what more to say on the subject, it would just all sound like cliche good bye stuff.
Its ironic all this happening at once, with my work and personal life. Not really in the fact that they both include people leaving, but in the fact that they both provoke much thought from me. I can't explain in too much detail why it does, but basically, it has me reconsidering a lot of paths in my life, and if a change is needed. I don't know what the lab is going to do with out ron, and I don't know what i'm going to do with out maddie
This all I can deal with. I'm only there to learn anyway, and this shouldn't effect how much knowledge I pick up, just might effect wether or not i get published or not. Whats worst is that my very first friend at UC will not be returning next year, or ever. I spent my freshman year with her just down the stairs, and my sophomore year with her right next door. I was supposed to spend my junior year in the same house as her, but now we will spend it in completely different states. I don't think it hit me when she told me. I spent so much of my energy trying to calm her down and make her feel better, that I just disregared how I felt. But now it really hit me. I can only imagine how i'm going to feel come fall and she is not there to greet me. I can only imagine what she is going through. I don't even know what more to say on the subject, it would just all sound like cliche good bye stuff.
Its ironic all this happening at once, with my work and personal life. Not really in the fact that they both include people leaving, but in the fact that they both provoke much thought from me. I can't explain in too much detail why it does, but basically, it has me reconsidering a lot of paths in my life, and if a change is needed. I don't know what the lab is going to do with out ron, and I don't know what i'm going to do with out maddie