Job Update

I found something better than maintenance - something that I could be a little more proud of. It's right in the path of my degree (which still hasn't been approved as a real degree when I posted this.) Starting late in September, I started in the I.T. Department of a professional NBA team. Yes. I work in the Energy Solutions Arena with the Utah Jazz. Not the website, but keeping all the computers working.

I've seen Deron Williams (@D_will_8_4real) on Twitter in the halls of the Energy Solutions Arena and have said "Hi." to Kyle Korver (he didn't respond and my Twitter friends call it rude, but it was still pretty cool seeing him in person.) I've even had Greg Miller (@GreginUtah), the owner, serve me a waffle for the Christmas breakfast on Christmas Eve. I've stood in the locker room with Gary Briggs, their trainer and the sports medicine guy you see bandaging them up when they get hurt. It's fun teasing my friends about my privileges.

As far as the actual work. It's the first job I've ever actually liked and I think that says a lot.

NSE

Okay,

So, I've pretty much had it with math. It's cool and all; defines the physical realm, gives it depth and provides reason to it's seemingly chaotic direction. But, I'm done. Somewhere around finding the direction, velocity, acceleration, speed, spin and curvature of a cylinder, within a ball, within a cone is when it happened. That's when I thought to myself, "wait ... what?" So, I plateaued at absorbing the concepts.

It's 3rd, 4th, 5th, ... nth dimensional mathematics. Try to wrap your head around that for just a moment, fourth dimensional mathematics. You can't even conceive of a 4th dimensional object, let alone plot it's surface. The picture to the right, is a two dimensional rendition of Boy's Surface. It only looks three dimensional because of lines and color. A ball or truck has three dimensions. How can you conceive a fourth? Go ahead, think of a surface that has height, width, depth ... then what?? Hm? How about a fifth dimension, or sixth??

The professor couldn't even give the class an example where this type of math is used in the real world.

I was warned, though. Whenever I mentioned that I wanted to become an Engineer, practically everyone said, "you'll need to like math ... a lot of math." Somehow, I was ignorant to it.

Well, after picking up all the pieces of my skull and peeling my consciousness off the back wall, I decided it was time to change degrees. You're now reading about the next Network Systems Engineer.

What's a Network Systems Engineer you ask? I'll let you know as soon as I find out. I think I'm picking my degrees based on how cool or important they sound.