>> I love the job because
the organization I work for,
if I don't like what I'm doing right
now I can find some other niche.
I fill the niche in [inaudible] because there
was nobody else doing it and they needed a body
in there and I was coming off a program that,
and I didn't have anything better to do.
A lot of people say well why do you [inaudible]
it's like well I've never done that before.
And so that was a new, new
and challenging thing for me.
I've learned a lot.
You can go in different places within the
organization or totally different things.
We're the spacecraft engineering
department we go cradle to grave on hardware
from conception to design to build to flying it.
So if I'm not qualified necessarily to go to
do like structural analysis now but if I had
that desire I could probably start learning how
to do that on the side while doing my other work
and then move into that niche
more and more if I wanted to.
We build our hardware there in our
facility so if you're not even associated
with the program you'll see it on a daily basis.
You'll see it progress.
You'll see the guys testing it.
You know, random vibration or
vibration machines shake the payload
and that's kind of fun to watch.
It's kind of neat.
It's kind of a lot of work setting it
up and then we have thermal vac chambers
where we simulate the space
environment and setting that all
up and it can be very interesting.
Challenges now are, there are organizations
that are putting extra requirements on designs
that we don't necessarily
work to because we're more
of an experimental development
group where we take more risks.
The other issue now is, at least
for me, is the way they track money.
We spend so much time tracking the money
that we spend than we do actually the work.
It's an extra burden on, that's directly
on engineers now to maintain the budgets.
It just takes away from being able do real job.