Thanks to my good friend Jonathan, I've started to think about a change of careers. Still in aerospace, but less aero and more SPACE.
Check out this job posting from USAJOBS
I meet all of the requirements:
- Four year degreee in Mechanical Engineering
- Height/Weight to fit into the space suit
- Mentally stable for long periods of isolation (mostly thanks to sitting on a tractor for much of my youth)
- Several years experience in the defense industry, including working with rockets
- Drug free
- Able to pass the swim test
- Low blood pressure
- Calm under pressure
- 1000 hours of flight time in jets. Hmm, this could be a stretch, so let's check the math:
Required hours (1000) / Average flight time (2 hours) = 500 flight segments
Flight segments (500) / Average segments per round trip (4) = 125 round trips
That works out to about 12 years of flying at my average (10 round trips) rate. I'd same I'm a little short in that category, but heck, maybe an exception could be made. Oh, they want me to actually FLY the plane? Don't jets today mostly fly themselves? Well....huh. Guess I better get a license. And a jet. And jet fuel money.
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