Big Business and free Coffee Mugs
MIT careers fair today. I toddled along mildly smartly dressed and without a resume thinking "hmm, maybe I shall wander around and possibly get a free Firefox coffee mug", but ended up actually getting deep in conversation about job prospects with a bunch of companies. The recruitment woman at Shell jumped to attention when I said I was an ocean engineer, started making jokes about "course 13 pride" (although OE is no longer a course number in it's own right, the <25 students who take still insist on not calling themselves mechanical engineers. It's kind of like...well, Scotland, really) and started plying me with recruitment leaflets.
Also, I have decided that I want to work for Schlumberger SO BAD. I realize that this makes me a corporate mulit-national whore of the largest proportions, but I DO NOT CARE. I WANT THIS JOB. Their field-engineer training thing is basically like 3 years of getting a master's degree, except you spend your time in the field all over the world. Then after you're trained you get put automatically in charge of your own field team, working on million dollar projects...it sounds awesome.
It is slightly telling that I've been at MIT too long that when the recruitment guy said "So it says on the brochure x hours a week, but to warn you, in reality you may be working on something for 36 hours straight. In a tent. Somewhere in Africa. With $100k of cement piping and a notebook," rather than being horrified I went "That sounds amazing! Do we get Mountain Dew somewhere in Africa?".
I'm currently comforting myself by flicking through the Schlumberger booklet to remind myself that this is the reason I am sitting in the Student Centre bashing my head off that problem with a 7-pin truss where my compressions and tensions never match up.
It's all worth it...or something...
And I did get a free coffee mug, too.
Also, I have decided that I want to work for Schlumberger SO BAD. I realize that this makes me a corporate mulit-national whore of the largest proportions, but I DO NOT CARE. I WANT THIS JOB. Their field-engineer training thing is basically like 3 years of getting a master's degree, except you spend your time in the field all over the world. Then after you're trained you get put automatically in charge of your own field team, working on million dollar projects...it sounds awesome.
It is slightly telling that I've been at MIT too long that when the recruitment guy said "So it says on the brochure x hours a week, but to warn you, in reality you may be working on something for 36 hours straight. In a tent. Somewhere in Africa. With $100k of cement piping and a notebook," rather than being horrified I went "That sounds amazing! Do we get Mountain Dew somewhere in Africa?".
I'm currently comforting myself by flicking through the Schlumberger booklet to remind myself that this is the reason I am sitting in the Student Centre bashing my head off that problem with a 7-pin truss where my compressions and tensions never match up.
It's all worth it...or something...
And I did get a free coffee mug, too.