Bear down.

"DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
06/06/2019 at 12:43 • Filed to: None

Received an email last night informing me I was accepted to grad school. That, along with getting hired for a full time STEM teaching position is making this a pretty good month.

DISCUSSION (37)

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 12:47

Congratulations!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 12:48

All these smart people.

One of my biggest regrets is not taking post secondary. I have no degree, but do have a couple designations now.

Textured Soy Protein > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 12:49

Any chance you might want to move east after grad school? I run recruiting for a civil engineering company and we have an environmental & water resources area. HQ is in Rockville, MD just outside of DC and we have offices up and down the east coast from PA down to NC.

CalzoneGolem > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/06/2019 at 12:52

It’s not too late.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CalzoneGolem
06/06/2019 at 12:54

I know. I’m only 27. But I always feel that it would just be pointless at this point.

CalzoneGolem > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/06/2019 at 12:59

Well then stop regretting it !

Also, learning is *never* pointless.

DipodomysDeserti > Textured Soy Protein
06/06/2019 at 13:00

I would much prefer to stay in the Southwest, but wouldn’t rule anything out. I’ll let you know in a year or so where I’m at.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CalzoneGolem
06/06/2019 at 13:01

Mostly, I just don’t know what, at this point, I would do?

I started university. I took history. But life went a different way and I just started working in Insurance. I feel pretty much locked into that now

Shift24 > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:02

Wait i snt Arizona University Beardown? I thought ASU was the fork? or am I missing something?

CaptDale - is secretly British > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/06/2019 at 13:03

Dude! I sympathize with this really hard. I am going back to school after 7 years of putting around taking random CC classes and working because I didn’t know what I wanted to do. But I found that at now 27 and I think it will be worth it for me.

DipodomysDeserti > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/06/2019 at 13:05

It’s never too late. I got my BS in Health Sciences back in 2009. Ran a print shop and taught for the last ten years. It’s better to take time to figure out what you really want to do rather than wasting money collecting degrees that don’t fit what you want to do.

DipodomysDeserti > I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
06/06/2019 at 13:08

Thanks!

DipodomysDeserti > Shift24
06/06/2019 at 13:09

Little tongue in cheek joke. I did my undergrad at U of A.

CalzoneGolem > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/06/2019 at 13:12

You don’t have to get an education in anything relevant to what you want to do. Most people have degrees unrelated to their fields. Just having a degree is mostly what’s important to employers. If you like history take some history classes nbd.

Chariotoflove > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:13

Waste management and teaching. Two jobs with similar descriptions: taking shit from y our bosses.

JK* , this is great. Congrats!

*sort of

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:15

Congratulations, now get to studying. Environmental and Resource Management (Water Management) seems like a great field of study, speaking as one who works in that field as an engineer. Is this an engineering or a science course of study?

DipodomysDeserti > Chariotoflove
06/06/2019 at 13:21

Thanks. That’s *water* management I’ll be studying. But spot on analogy*.

*if any of my bosses read this, you’ve actually been really great.

Chariotoflove > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:27

I saw. I just figured that managing water included handling waste in water supplies at some point, so I took liberties for the sake of humor. :)

DipodomysDeserti > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
06/06/2019 at 13:29

Thanks. It’s a science course of study. If you don’t mind me asking, what does your work entail?

DipodomysDeserti > Chariotoflove
06/06/2019 at 13:30

I gotcha. It was a good joke, I didn’t have any coffee today.

Chariotoflove > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:32

What level do you teach?

DipodomysDeserti > Chariotoflove
06/06/2019 at 13:36

I’ve taught 9-12 grade sciences courses for the last six years and will be teaching elementary, middle and high school STEM courses this coming year.

TheRealBicycleBuck > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 13:42

Congratulations! While you are at it, get your flood plain manager certification. There are many federal and state regulations which require the authority which comes with having that certification.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 14:04

My bread and butter work is analyzing drainage and designing pipe systems to manage stormwater, including large roadway culverts, but I also design stream restoration work, earthen dam and outlet structure rehabilitation, and stormwater control measures (SCMs, formerly known as BMPs) that address both water quantity and quality controls.

That said, when I zoom out and look at the larger natural systems within which my work takes place, water management of river systems comes into play, but I didn’t happen to end up involved in that. In addition, my masters degree (mid-career) coursework included a lot of the analysis related to modeling pollutants in riverine systems, which is useful for trying to establish or address permitting requirements intended to improve surface water quality, but again, I didn’t happen to end up changing my professional focus to doing that (for various reasons). I assume that your course of study would intersect somehow with these two types of work.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 14:06

My most successful hire was a former high school chemistry teacher who got an engineering MS mid-life and was ready to start as a driven entry-level engineering hire. Hopefully your results will be similar.

Shift24 > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 14:21

Ahh ok, that makes more sense

DipodomysDeserti > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
06/06/2019 at 14:23

Awesome. I’ve been teaching high school chemistry, biology and environmental science for the last six years.

DipodomysDeserti > TheRealBicycleBuck
06/06/2019 at 14:23

Thanks for the heads up!

Chariotoflove > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 14:33

That’s cool. I like teaching, but sometimes I get tired of professional students who are usually geared more toward calculating their point totals than letting wonderment at the world creep into their educational experience.

One of my thesis committee members was coming up for tenure and decided to chuck it all and become a third grade teacher. Maybe in my next phase of life I’ll be able to do something like that.

Future Heap Owner > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 14:35

Congrats man, that’s great!

Just watch out for midterms.

DipodomysDeserti > Future Heap Owner
06/06/2019 at 14:38

Thanks!

Textured Soy Protein > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
06/06/2019 at 16:10

So, uh, hey, this is awkward, but I mildly internet stalked you to see what general part of the country you are and...want a job? Cuz my NC team just opened this up.

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > Textured Soy Protein
06/06/2019 at 16:15

I understand the need for recruiters to work hard to find candidates . . . I have difficulty hiring people myself in the current market, so I understand the stalking.

Anyway, I am pretty much exactly where I want to be, and also that position is not a fit for various reasons that I won’t go into on Oppo. But thanks.

Textured Soy Protein > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com
06/06/2019 at 16:27

I’m a headhunter but I’m not some staffing agency trying to make commission, I’m the in-house headhunter / HR guy responsible for everything to do with hiring for the firm.

I n this case I stumbled into this thread, and based on your comment I looked back through your posts until I saw something with a location clue . Since I had the guys in Raleigh just emailing me about that opening, I figured, what the hell, might as well mention it!

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 18:45

Nothing wrong with a teacher learning new tricks and, most especially, wanting to learn them as well . Kudos to you!

Ready for an adventure! > DipodomysDeserti
06/06/2019 at 22:50

Congratulations! But bear down is U of A 's call sign....I have it on my coffee cup. Is it ASU's too?

DipodomysDeserti > Ready for an adventure!
06/07/2019 at 00:17

Thanks! I was being a bit cute as I’m a UofA grad. Bear Down!