Category Archives: Work
What Are You Going To Do?
On Monday, I found out that I guy I worked with[1] who retired earlier this year was diagnosed with kidney cancer a week ago or so. By time the doctors found it, it had already metastasized to the rest his … Continue reading
What Science Knows and What Businesses Do
This post was originally just going to be a link to a video. Then I started doing some more research and some more digging and this post is what I’ve come up with. I think this is a testament to … Continue reading
A New Project
I signed up for a new project at work. It’s a part time position that also requires some volunteer hours, but I think that it will be an excellent experience. It’s part of an engineering career development program that allows … Continue reading
The First Two Years, Sort Of
Today marks, among other things, my two year company date at Boeing. I know what you’re thinking: It hasn’t even been a year since you graduated, how can you have two years at Boeing? Behold, the power of the internship. … Continue reading
A Note On Internships
As the school year winds to a close, the summer intern season is getting ready to kick off. Having once been on that side of things as a college student and intern, it’s now a great experience to be on … Continue reading
Working with My Former Self
I’m doing some verification of specifications at work that involves going through documents and making sure that stuff is up to par. A couple of times, I’ll come across a document and think to myself, this is a pretty good document (i.e. it looks … Continue reading
Apply for My Old Job
My group at work, Mission Computing Hardware, just had a requisition posted for a new intern! The last intern was hired in 2006 and would later go on to get hired to full time. The last intern also happened to be me.
Now, I obviously can’t make… Continue reading
You Are Not Eligible to Donate
I tried to donate blood last week during a drive at work (interesting side note, Boeing pays for time spent donating blood). One of my coworkers asked me and I thought it would be a fun experience, especially since I haven’t donated in a while.
GWU: General Work Update
Some change at work:
Several weeks ago (the day before I left for Haiti, actually), our division was renamed Boeing Defense, Space and Security. Interestingly enough, the TLA ((three letter acronym, something Boeing is notorious for)) is only B… Continue reading
Valihist: The Productivity Medicine
There’s a cabinet at work that has some basic medications: Motrin (ibuprofen), Aleve (naproxen), and Valihist.
Valihist is an "Antihistamine-Stimulant for allergies, colds, [and] runny nose."
The back of the package lists the the ingredients… Continue reading