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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.
i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi
I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory
they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"
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i had forgotten Indeed existed in my absolute nightmare of job hunting
boy when you live 10 miles from the Kennedy Space Center there sure are a lot of aerospace jobs I am not remotely qualfied for, from folks like lockheed and leidos and astrotech and beyondgravity (formerly ruag) and hell they were even hiring a part time cashier for the KSC exchange (on-base, badged-employee gift shop where they get their NASA stickers)
I don't want to get your hopes up but: if you can't find other jobs, even if you don't have manufacturing experience, if you can lift 50lb objects more than a few times in a day, you might consider applying to the balloon one if you think you can learn quickly in your off-time and don't have other things you can do. You'll need to be able to commit to at least a year there at least probably though.
it sounds really difficult but the only real required qualification is at least a year in manufacturing work, but you have a lot of the preferred qualifications.
and, well, it's described technically enough that I think a lot of non-aerospace manufacturing people might overlook it / think they're unqual'd, and a lot of aerospace people probably aren't thinking they'd be good at balloon work. I'm speculating there, but like, the bar is actually kinda low for a space job.
most likely case, you lost whatever time it took to write the application. Worst case, you get job interview practice where you're way out of depth.
but there's still a lot of room there.
the immediate problem is that i don't have a car or drivers license and all of the aerospace jobs are on an access controlled government facility so i can't just easily get an uber or carport there
the other problem is that i'm a college dropout whose only job experience is 3 months at a circle k, and you might be overestimating my qualifications
yeah the car thing is a problem :\
but the ed requirement is just highschool
basically, a lot of places that are doing niche work can't fill the positions with requirements, so they hire on potential to learn how to fill in the gaps instead (because there's a point where training is cheaper than competing with a specialized industry for people with the overlap of training, which, sucks but sometimes is a bright side)
ESPECIALLY if you've gotten dragged into watching machining videos on youtube by the algorithm that seems to direct a lot of nerdy people to that area of things the past 3 years.
(because then you don't need to be taught the vocabulary first for them to be able to train you by just talking about things in manufacturing jargon)
i think it's been... way more than 3 years at this point. i fall asleep to them because they're good for that, and i probably got into it with wintergatan and the marble machine x, if not earlier
machining, woodworking, trades stuff like that is all fun to watch and absorb
yeah, so I cant speak for the NASA contractors in particular, but for a lot of that kind of subcontracted industry things, if you know the vocabulary of the basic like, parts of whatever tooling there is, and you're good at hands on learning/learning-by-doing, they'll be more willing to take a chance on training someone to do the job if they're good at enough of the 'preferred roles'.
because usually people graduating from vocational schools / industry programs / etc dont have the ancillary skills they're looking for
it differs by locale ofc, and CT is not FL (we have less entry-level manufacturing people seeking jobs probably) but, it's a thing to keep in mind if the other stuff you think yr qual'd for dries up.
I can't promise anything, but like, a lot of places are expecting less than you think, and can be flexible even with the required qualifications.
oh they're a startup operating out of the airport. I looked at their website, since they're so small they might have more scrutiny but they might also be more willing to take a chance. Iunno if it's worth your time unless you're otherwise very out of options (because you'd be doing work without a HIGH chance of payoff), but looking at the town there's a few busses that go within a 20 min walk of there. They might not let you walk in tho, it's got no sidewalks BUT that might be carpool-able with people already working there since it's a tiny hop.
oh, they're actually in titusville, not just listed there, neat. i know that area, it's not somewhere i've been able to get much, but i took the 10 to see my roommate in hospice care off grissom a few times so its, doable with add'l biking. same with astrotech but there was nothin from astrotech when i looked
