up on the shore they work all day / out in the sun they slave away

I’m in another training class that lasts the rest of the week, but already I’m realizing that I may not be staying. We’re currently waiting for a few more people to show, but the instructor just handed out the textbook and I glanced through it. Hmm. It’s the same textbook we used for the Photoshop – Beginner class, and this is supposed to be Photoshop – Intermediate. Now, there are a few chapters at the end that we didn’t get to in the first class, but those couple chapters ain’t gonna take four days.

I really hope this isn’t a repeat of the last class.

Yesterday my boss surprised me by saying that there’s a new task in our group, and wondering if I’m interested. Of course I said yes. I don’t really know what the job involves — it’s being a “subsystem engineer” for a particular part of the shuttle’s flight, the return-to-launch-site abort — but I would be an idiot to turn down the opportunity to do something even slightly new. I basically have no footprint stuff to do right now, and since I’m only allowed to charge ~10 hours per week to Mars stuff, I’m bored out of my skull. This will give me something new, and something to train for. I’m deathly afraid that it will end up being more sim work (I already know I’m going to have to learn two, possibly three new software tools), but at the moment it’s better than nothing.

Last night Becca and I finally got to meet the “famous” Will, Cari‘s friend from ISU. He was in town for a job interview, and got an offer, so we all hope he takes it and moves here so we can stop stalking him through his blog and can instead stalk him in person.

Ok, the guy just started the class and SIGH, the other three people have never taken a Photoshop class, and the guy really does intend on starting from the beginning of the textbook. This is supposed to be an intermediate class, and it’s going to be exactly the same as the beginning class. This is such a pet peeve of mine, because it’s wasting my time and JSC’s money. JSC Training needs a serious overhaul.