Official Gramps' Memorial Eternal OT Thread

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McDad said:
My daughter and SIL are looking for Engineering jobs in Huntsville. Can't even land an interview.

Anyone with a connection, please let me know.
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The company I worked for 23 years ending in 2010 has a catalyst manufacturing and testing facility in Huntsville but I had no pull on hiring even when I worked there. They were pretty snooty about only interviewing upcoming graduates from a handful of colleges. Originally that facility was part of Engelhard which was a US corporation but in 2006 was acquired by the German giant BASF - world's largest chemical company and the company I worked for those many years.

Good luck to your daughter and SIL. If they get desperate enough to move to Texas I know where they could get free forklift training.
 
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RavinDave said:
The company I worked for 23 years ending in 2010 has a catalyst manufacturing and testing facility in Huntsville but I had no pull on hiring even when I worked there. They were pretty snooty about only interviewing upcoming graduates from a handful of colleges. Originally that facility was part of Engelhard which was a US corporation but in 2006 was acquired by the German giant BASF - world's largest chemical company and the company I worked for those many years.

Good luck to your daughter and SIL. If they get desperate enough to move to Texas I know where they could get free forklift training.
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RavinDave Forktruck Academy

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AM64 said:
I'd say the same, but have you been to Huntsville lately? If I were still working, that would definitely be a place to check out for anybody in engineering and computing.

Redstone Arsenal (Army base) is beginning to look like a campus for defense contractors and agencies like the FBI and ATF. It's actually one of the finalists for the Space Command HQ, but that's probably only to keep congress happy until the decision for Peterson AFB is somehow forced.
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I saw they redesignated Patrick and the Cape as Space Force bases.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
NASA may not be biting there. But I’m shocked nobody serving the Arsenal isn’t biting.
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I have not lived there in 17 years, but with that research area outside the arsenal, if it is not happening there then it aint happening anywhere. I worked for Ingersoll-Rand back then and was all over the area.
 
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@NorthDallas40

Let me reclarify that. I am sure there are areas that are hotter than others, just surprised they are not hiring in such a community. If I am not mistaken, it is a rather higher income town with all the engineering and median income is very good for like Madison.
 
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Orangeburst said:
@NorthDallas40

Let me reclarify that. I am sure there are areas that are hotter than others, just surprised they are not hiring in such a community. If I am not mistaken, it is a rather higher income town with all the engineering and median income is very good for like Madison.
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It is. The area pays well. My company has a couple of satellite offices there but they are small and not very technical. All of the primary contractors and many smaller ones have a presence in Huntsville.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
It is. The area pays well. My company has a couple of satellite offices there but they are small and not very technical. All of the primary contractors and many smaller ones have a presence in Huntsville.
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I did not see McDad's reference to field, Did he say?
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Yes there was a time I played a decent game of golf.
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I was a 3 hdcp from about age 20 to 60 when I pretty much quit playing. Now, I practice, but seldom play. I can still play about the same, but I would need to move up a set or 2 of tees to shoot a low score. We used to play from the tips. The tips are too far for me now.
 
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If I were a young married couple I would join the Coast Gaurd. Tried to get my daughter and her then fiancé to do that after they graduated UT.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I was a 3 hdcp from about age 20 to 60 when I pretty much quit playing. Now, I practice, but seldom play. I can still play about the same, but I would need to move up a set or 2 of tees to shoot a low score. We used to play from the tips. The tips are too far for me now.
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When I was 40 I could bomb the tee shot. The thing is I was wildly inaccurate when I hit it long. If I hit it 240 off the tee I shoot near par. Longer than that and it all turns to ****.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
When I was 40 I could bomb the tee shot. The thing is I was wildly inaccurate when I hit it long. If I hit it 240 off the tee I shoot near par. Longer than that and it all turns to ****.
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Same for me since turned 70, but my golf game is actually holding up very good.
 
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