I’ll take it as a good sign March 4, 2008
Posted by smartblondece in Civil Engineering, blah.add a comment
I haven’t heard back yet on my internship. I thought it was bad last week, just sitting and waiting. No, this is worse, I am pretty much totally anxious anytime I think about it. I was told I would hear back early this week. Maybe it’s just me, but I took that to mean Monday or Tuesday. Granted, tomorrow would still (kinda) be the first half of the week. So here’s my thinking so far. If I were to be just discounted early on (because, let’s face it, there really wasn’t any type of selection process for interviewing, you just kinda sign up.) I would have (maybe?) heard back early. So, I sit here waiting, with the stress contributing to a nasty annoying condition I have. It really is all a… joy. I really really want this, but right now I think I just want to know if I have it or not. I am not a patient person.
Oh the Possibilities! February 27, 2008
Posted by smartblondece in Childhood, Civil Engineering, Pacific NW, Work, family.add a comment
I interviewed for an internship position with Acme Construction Company out of the Puget Sound area last Thursday. Acme Construction is a part Big Well Respected specializing in Heavy Construction, Marine Construction and some Industrial Construction. The projects are mostly located in Puget Sound (Well, OK, so only the marine stuff is actually IN Puget Sound, we’ll say in and around). I’m really hoping this works out but this seems highly competitive. If I were to get this position I’d be living with Grandma Pam this summer. Let me clarify what living with Grandma means. My Grandmother lives on a piece of land that was once a dairy. It is situated at the end of a valley that is still almost completely farm land. My famiy bought it back in the ’70’s. Built a brick house, dug a lake, and then my step-grandfather was paralyzed in a hospital accident. The farm was reduced in function and most of the land sold off. We still have a good amount of land, and the land that was ours was sold to neighbors, not developers. These days the only farming that goes on is a handful of cows, and calves, hay, my uncles two goats (Who are just so damn cute and know it, for they love showing off to passers by), and the occasional group of market hogs, although my uncle may stop doing that due to difficulties finding a butcher. But what the “Farm” still has, is a lake that has been improved since the original ’80’s lake, tennis courts, sand volleyball court, a 6 car garage with 1600 sq ft loft (studio apartment) above (which I might mention has an amazing view of the valley), my uncle’s house, his garden, and the brick house where my grandmother still lives (my step-grandfather died in 1994). This was the place where I grew up coming to. I was born in that town. I lived there for most of my early childhood. And when we weren’t in town we would spend many family vacations at the farm. Oh, did I mention I can be in Seattle in about an hour by ferry, which is an amazing way to travel, as Puget Sound is gorgeous. So maybe you see now why living there would be amazing.
I don’t want to diminish the internship. Big Well Respected is one of those companies that people want to work for. Hell, I want to work for them, and not just this summer. I would love to work for them in my professional career. I could learn a lot working for Acme Construction, and the work that they do, and where it is fascinates me. A lot of the challenges of working in the Pacific Northwest were what interested me in Civil Engineering in the first place (the CE in my sn is for Civil Engineering). There is a particular project that they are working on that I am fascinated by. I am praying that I get it. And I know I have a number of people praying and hoping for me, too. So, maybe God will answer those prayers and I’ll get it.
