1. What do you do for a living?
I’m an aerospace engineer for NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
2. What do you like most about your job?
First, the subject matter. I really do feel passionately about space exploration. It’s incredible and inspiring and mind-blowing stuff and I wish everyone could see that. Second, the “coolness” factor. As in, dude, I work for the space program. We send people into the cosmos. How crazy cool is that?!? And finally, the people. My coworkers are awesome.
3. What do you like least about your job?
The little day-to-day monotonies. I hate that I sit in front of a computer all day, and that none of my work requires hands-on or extensive face-to-face activity, and that all the days are pretty much exactly the same. And at the moment, I hate that I don’t quite have enough to do to really keep me busy 40 hours a week.
4. When you have a bad day at work it’s usually because _____…
I feel underappreciated, like I’m just the number cruncher. Or, because my sims don’t work.
5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
Something involving design (web, print, graphic, layout). Or journalism, in some sort of layout or editing capacity (though writing would be fun too). Or being a small-business owner of something like a running (or other athletic pursuits) specialty store, or an independent book shop, or a coffeehouse…basically, some kind of store that fills a local niche and attracts the loyal, grassroots type of customer that comes back because they like you and you make them feel good.
