Takin a Shot at Blogging

I always figured that blogs were for families or couples that wanted to stay in touch with their friends. So I guess I'm going to be a family of 1 and try out blogging.














Quickly here is a wrap of what I had in the works in 2008. From January through May I was at Grad school at Butte, Montana working towards a Master's in Industrial Hygiene. From May to August I was on the North Slope of Alaska working for ConocoPhillips as an intern. I had the opportunity to visit Conoco in Houston, TX and attend an international conference for Industrial Hygienists in Minneapolis, MN. I did get to go to the Mall of America while at the conference and tour a facility that manufatured heart valves. I sincerely miss being in Alaska.

After that I came home for a few days to pack and left for an internship in Arizona, working as in intern at the Freeport- McMoRan mine in Green Valley. (A retirement community that gave new meaning to driving defensively!)














While in Arizona I was able to go to a couple job interviews in Elko, NV and one in Vancouver, Canada. I also spent a whirl wind vacation in Albuquerque, NM at the Hot Air Balloon Festival.














My internship was cut short at the mine by a month because of a sudden drop in the price of copper. 1 day after getting let go I was on the road to Montana again, where I moved back to Butte to finish the last three weeks of my fall semester online.

While in Butte I accepted a full time job offer with a mining company called RioTinto. One property they own is Kennecott in Utah. They are a U.S. based company, but they have an office in Vancouver because of their international size. I will be working in their Copper Projects office as their Industrial Hygientist.

I spent 5 days over Christmas break in Arizona and now this brings us to the present, back at school in Butte, Montana. I have one semester left which is basically 4 months of thesis work. We'll see if this blog gets updated if I make it through the thesis process.