Last Day of Engineering

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Last Day of Engineering

I am finishing up a design for the company that I have been with for the last 18 months and I am ready for it to be my last. It is a large complicated part that I do not want to do. It needs to have a lot more time to do it right than the company wants to spend on it. I hate to do a crappy job but that is what they are getting. It sure makes me glad to be getting out of here.

Saturday I will be on a bus on my way to Joplin, Missouri. It is a 17 hour ride. I am sure that is going to suck. I have only taken one bus ride and it was short and not very enjoyable. Every time the bus stopped it would empty of passengers for a smoke break. Then when they got back on the bus the smell was horrible. I am sure that it will be an experience that I won’t soon forget.

Monday is orientation and then with a trainer. This is something that I have dreaded. You always hope that you get a good trainer but living in a truck with a stranger is not something that I care to do.

One of the reasons that I chose CWTL (ConWay Truck Loads) was that they have a short trainer time. The other reasons, besides being one of the best companies out there to work for, are that they travel all 48 states and I can take my wife Stormy and dog Sweet Pea. No, I did not name him and the name doesn’t fit. Stormy, her grandfather called her that as a child and it stuck. He started with Windy but probable decided that that was an understatement. Saylor and Stormy, I am sure that you can see the issues here but then again my favorite time for sailing was when we had weather advisories. We want to see the country. I plan on being out as long as we can between home times.