Gettin Down to Business

After 3 weeks of unorganized chaos it was finally time I settled down into a nice routine.  As it stands right now the routine goes a little like this:

Packed Bus From Work

6:45 Rude Alarm Wakeup

7:15 Showered and Dressed

7:43 Breakfast inhaled/lunch packed

8:05 At Bus Station

8:08 Catch Bus 61 from bay 18

8:21 Arrive at bus Stop begin walk to work

8:35 At Work

16:36 Catch Free RR Bus Home

Free Time*

23:15 Kindle Time

23:45 Passed out

*Free time thus far has been a mixture of grocery shopping/dinner/planning my next adventure… this brings me to my next adventure!

… Morocco!!!

Mid May a good friend of mine from back home, Yuri Protzuk, invited me to come down to Morocco for part of the time he would be there. Unfortunately, I had to turn him down because I didn’t think it would be proper to skip out of work after only being there for a week.  Turns out first day of work rolls around and I find out the offices will be closed Monday-Wednesday for the Queen's Jubilee which results in a slow Thur&Fri due to workers extening their Holiday.  I followed in the British footsteps and am booked to be in Morocco June 2^nd-June 10^th.

Yuri’s mother grew up here and his grandparents live in Rabat so I was invited to go stay with them, I will fly into Casablanca and cannot wait to see Africa for my first time!

Back story on my Boss

Before departing the States I was very tentative on how my working conditions would be as I had reached out to my boss multiple times over a 2 month period and heard no response, I figured this was because he perceived me as not worth the time in his busy schedule.  The morning before I left Virginia I received a call from my HR manager explaining there had been a mix up… apparently Darren Smith is a very common name in the UK and I had been given the wrong contact info.  I was delivered the right contact info with the news that my boss would be on holiday till June 8^th, so I still have no idea what my boss will be like but at least I know he wasn't ignoring me on purpose.

First Couple days

Trent 1000, The OGV is a circular ring that straightens
the flow coming from the fan blades

I have been placed into the Fans team for the Trent 700, 800, 900, 1000 series of engines.  Until my boss returns I have been placed under the “Producibility” team lead where I will be assisting in the compilation/presentation of information for a DAR (Design Alteration Request) to make alterations with the OGV (Outlet Guide Vane) on two different engine types.  Yes it is only my third day on the job and I’m already being drowned in a sea of acronyms!  I spent a good deal of Monday reading up on the components that make up the “Fans” section of the jet engine and how this subsystem falls into the rest of the Jet engine, see the diagram for more info.  My teams seems like a really good group of guys, but I can tell I have a large amount of catching up to do if I want to perform at the level they expect out of me.