This past week was my first week of working at Borisch Manufacturing Company. It is going very well so far, and I can see no real big problems with the job. But with only a week in that very well might change. The biggest reason for me taking the job was because I was so sick of searching for a job at all. Plus the whole thing happened so fast I was just wiling to take anything when it came to me.
As it happens me and some friends had been planning for quite some time to go down to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to surprise a friend, Mitch, at his graduation as a Green Beret. He had come up to our graduation in May from Calvin College, so we wanted to support him in his accomplishments too. So we devised an awesome plan with his girlfriend, Esther, to meet up with her and his parents at the ceremony. We drove from various places like Grand Rapids, MI and Wayne, NJ to meet up in Beaver Falls, PA only to drive trough the night with either little or no sleep and get to Fort Bragg. In the end, we totally surprised Mitch and I think he was a bit angry at the secrets needed to accomplish it, but he was grateful too.
How does that all fit into the new job? Well that whole road trip was planned for a long time, but the new job I had just taken the day before I left. So it has been a crazy week and a half. So I really did not expect that by the time I would come back from a mini vacation to have a job.
The job doesn’t pay all that well, but considering I made the same amount in a nasty food manufacturing plant before, I can deal with it. Now I work in a very clean, high technology oriented workplace. So that is totally my kind of place. Well, what is it that I do exactly? Its quite simple really. Borisch is involved in defense and aerospace industries, so they make a lot of circuit boards and cards that go in other assemblies for those sectors. I don’t really know what boards I handle go in what yet, but that will take time. Anyway, I am a Coating Operator, which means I spend most of my day in a blacklight room operating machines that spray a coating on circuit boards. The coating mainly keeps out moisture and probably has some other properties too.
So thats what I do all day. The part that sucks the most is the early time of first shift is 6:20am. Its a though change for someone that has been a night owl for quite a while. I’ll get used to it eventually. Here is to having a job and hopefully excelling enough to get an engineering position there or eventually becoming a world traveler. I don’t know how the later will happen, but I can dream right?
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