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So, I've been pretty busy.
When I started at the nuke plant-about a thousand years ago, it seems-well, it was very exciting for me, and I got to learn a lot, but I got bitten by a bug that I've never really satisified. All of my bosses had worked there since it first went on line, or even during construction, and I grew to envy that experience. If there was an opportunity , though, there was always something that got in the way, like Palo Verde, in Arizona, which started staffing early in my career, and I wasn't experienced enough. Or the plant would be somewhere I didn't want to go, like Syracuse, NY-or Saudi Arabia.
Or South Africa-they wined and dined a couple of us prettty well before we turned them down.
Later, I got into other work, and I did start up a couple of facilities, but it wasn't quite the same as power plant work, which I've always loved and missed. For the last three years, I've worked for Public Service Company of New Mexico, mostly at the San Juan Power Plant-and, while it's had some challenges, I've been very grateful to be able to return to the industry pretty much at something like the level I like to think I'd have been at had I stayed at the nuke back in New York.
Of course, alternatives had always fascinated me as well-I can remember describing some of the projects I'd have liked to have been involved with to my first wife, way back when she was my girlfriend. Many of those projects never realyl came to be, and some are still in proof-of principle stage.......
...and some are making money!
So, Jan 14, I start working as the operations manager at the Genesis Solar Energy Project, It promises to be a challenging and fulfilling next step towards retirement, and one I'm really looking forward to. Best of all, it's under construction, so I get to turn the key, and strike another one from my bucket list..........wish me luck!
When I started at the nuke plant-about a thousand years ago, it seems-well, it was very exciting for me, and I got to learn a lot, but I got bitten by a bug that I've never really satisified. All of my bosses had worked there since it first went on line, or even during construction, and I grew to envy that experience. If there was an opportunity , though, there was always something that got in the way, like Palo Verde, in Arizona, which started staffing early in my career, and I wasn't experienced enough. Or the plant would be somewhere I didn't want to go, like Syracuse, NY-or Saudi Arabia.
Or South Africa-they wined and dined a couple of us prettty well before we turned them down.
Later, I got into other work, and I did start up a couple of facilities, but it wasn't quite the same as power plant work, which I've always loved and missed. For the last three years, I've worked for Public Service Company of New Mexico, mostly at the San Juan Power Plant-and, while it's had some challenges, I've been very grateful to be able to return to the industry pretty much at something like the level I like to think I'd have been at had I stayed at the nuke back in New York.
Of course, alternatives had always fascinated me as well-I can remember describing some of the projects I'd have liked to have been involved with to my first wife, way back when she was my girlfriend. Many of those projects never realyl came to be, and some are still in proof-of principle stage.......
...and some are making money!
So, Jan 14, I start working as the operations manager at the Genesis Solar Energy Project, It promises to be a challenging and fulfilling next step towards retirement, and one I'm really looking forward to. Best of all, it's under construction, so I get to turn the key, and strike another one from my bucket list..........wish me luck!
). If you ever need a half way decent SCADA engineer ... :angel:.
