Some of you may remember that earlier this year, I was busy looking for an internship/job placement for the summer (Sarge, who does some amazing applied work in the field of nuclear energy, even offered his help, but I somehow didn't get a chance to see his post until after my first offer came in).
My uni has a mandatory co-op program for most science/engineering degrees, which has me spending summer/off-school terms doing work marginally related to my chosen field for academic credit (like internships, only decently paying and typically in industry, rather than just in-school labs - and there's a big application/interview processes). I have another such term coming up in January, and today the first postings appeared on the atrociously designed school job-search system. Amidst pages of low-level, code monkey work and inventory management gigs, I've found some real gems:
1) Technician at a weather station. Nice electrical eng. gig, with some applied science thrown in, right?. The caveat: The station's run by the Canadian armed forces in Alert, the northern-most constantly inhabited community in the world. Winter in the high arctic, anyone?
2) Chem lab tech. at all-girls prep boarding school. Well, I am still in my late teens, and single
, and these posh places may pay very well. Of course, I'd rather do something a little more involved than setting up bunsen-burners for months on end.
3) Another armed forces gig, this time testing "safety solutions" against "chemical threats." I'd have to relocate for this one. I could also potentially die painfully during some of these tests.
4) Campell's soup - batch preparation. Large scale cooking disguised as industrial chemical engineering. I've already applied, despite no practical knowledge of cooking.
5) Lab tech. at this company testing various radioactive materials. I've applied to this one too, hoping to score some super powers (or, at the very least, some sexy danger pay).
I've also sent my resume to more conventional jobs, including 7 separate positions at this one major company that I would kill to work for (and was apparently ranked in the top 10 of applicants the last time around, when they had one position open). Fuck, on my first co-op term, this past summer, I just tested digital cable boxes (read: watched TV) all day.
Anyone have some good college internship/summer job experiences?
