So Laci
called me out for creating this blog that I haven’t really been posting
to. I guess this blog post is to appease her
and say “hey look I wrote a couple”. The
real reason I haven’t wrote anything is that I haven’t really had anything to
write about. Life has been pretty much
wake up, apply for jobs, do something outside, drink a beer, sleep,
repeat. Up until this point we have been
living as cheaply as possible due to the fact that we have no income. We have actually become quite good at finding
dinner and drink specials to lessen the blow.
But that’s about to change, very soon!
Quite simply, I accepted a job offer!
And Laci should know shortly if her or the other candidate got chosen
for her job to. But enough about Laci,
back to me!
I was
offered a job at Monash University in the Maintenance Technology Institute. I know that sounds like I’m going to be fixing
shit that breaks on campus but that’s not at all what I will be doing. The MTI is a research and development
standalone on campus that works with around a dozen mining companies across Australia,
China, and South Africa. Their job is to
implement sensors and data acquisition onto excavators and drag lines to
monitor the performance and stress that the machines see. My job will be 2 fold, first I will have to
travel to the different mining sites to install these systems and troubleshoot
any problems. Second, when I am not
traveling I will be analysing data back at the Monash Clayton Campus.
To those of
you who know me through FSAE this probably seems kind of comical and to be honest
I agree with you. For everyone else,
this whole "lets move to Australia" thing started due to an alliance between my
FSAE team and the one at Monash. Long
boring story, but you can all blame Scott Wordley for Laci and I moving to Oz, and now I can thank him for helping me get a job here.
Things are starting to finally seem like they are going our way, especially after the disaster of
traveling here. We will be moving out of
Scott’s house on Saturday into a flat share apartment we found on
Flatmates.com.au. Now if only someone
would buy our lovely 1-bedroom condo on the 30th floor of a prime residential
building in Charlotte. Its furnished and
has amazing views from the floor to ceiling windows and balcony. It even has a pool and a car parking space. It could be yours for the price of
$260,000.00. Please feel free to find it
on Zillow.com and if so inclined schedule a viewing.
Just in
case you weren’t clear, that last sales pitch was supposed to be funny, unless
your actually in the market.
Regis
Ps. I don’t
have any cool photos to share. I’m not
Laci, I don’t take photos.
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