I don't think it may be the case, but let me know if you ended up in Stockholm.
59 degrees north in latitude but winter ain't here or seems like won't anytime soon, hasn't snowed at all. Neither seems like in Helsinki. Locals are baffled, I'd have expected some winter paradise instead of gray 35F days.
No hinderance north from the Arctic circle, March is actually a good season to visit there, being warmer and it has more daylight vs the no sun-winter.
I would guess you'd visit some of the nice Hotels and do the usual tours, there is a glass igloo place up there. If free as +1, no objection! Although I'm relatively close, 1000km, haven't really planned to get there. Know I went to NYC that time instead of going up the Polar circle.
I've done some quick "Forensics" on that ad for a Cyclotron engineer, LinkedIn shows 8 applicants.
Jorde,
Thanks for the smut. Evidently I'm not in the loop and won't be part of the interviewing process. "Oh-well," I say.
I'm counting down to August 2024 where I'll have 25 years on my pension and be at full retirement age.
From what I glean from the recruitment ad is pretty much this new employee will have to learn how to function in two groups: one that is at one large dysfunctional institution; and at a second large dysfunctional institution. This person will also have to be trained to run two different machines.
I say, "If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn't call it research." LOL.
This is good for me. Pretty much I can be a "lazy slacker" and be a "short-timer" who is mucho close to retiring. No added stress for me, and I avoid the politics and the crossfire by just laying low and "minding my own business." Pretty much no sweat off my balls.
My concern is that the major cause of death of Cyclotron Engineers is electrocution. My main magnet draws a current of nearly 500 Amps, the high voltage on the RF is 50 Kilo Volts. Basically you can get "French Fried" two different ways.
Know that the other Cyclotron gets serviced and maintained by the manufacturer at a high cost that is hundreds of thousands of dollars via a service contract that has to get renewed every year. The current "Cyclotron Engineer" I don't think has enough background to repair the machine, so they just call for a service call. Also this is a smaller machine that has less power and less capabilities. I call it "The Playschool Cyclotron."
The new recruit I suspect might be foolish enough to take the job and then later learn that on my machine there is no "service contract" and pretty much it will be expected that he will be expected to maintain and fix the machine.
I don't see a young person having the analog electronics background that I enjoy, also I have mucho experience working on partical beam accelerators at Grumman, Northrop Grumman, and two National Labs (Los Alamos and Brookhaven National Labs). I have over 4 decades of experience working on big time industrial equipment, and that also includes rail gun technology (60 Kilo Jouls of energy).
My concern is that I come back after taking a vacation and discover a charred body extra crispy. When I worked at Grumman this guy I worked with had 30 Kilo Volts arc from a high voltage rack. The point of contact was his left arm, and the exit path was through his forearm, through the palm of his hand, and into the cable for his headset.
If the path was the other way through his arm towards his heart, he would have been killed. He was in the hospital for a while. The inside of his forearm internally was burned, cooked from the inside out.
From what I read from the ad is they are looking for a young person with limited experience and the pay is not so much considering the job is in NYC. Nowhere do I see in the job description the mention of high voltage and high current experience that would be required to do my job on the big machine.
Anyways I hope no-one gets killed, especially me by some possible fool who might lack experience and appropriate training.
BTW both of the institutions I work for do rather extensive TV promotions claiming that they are the best hospitals. Not so well managed, but if I work for the best, I would worry if I had to go to some not so highly rated.
I laugh because I know and realize I'm a Dyno-soar, and that when I retire or move on that pretty much I'll get my revenge for the bullying, hostility, and demoralization that I put up with. Oh-well. Even How-Weird who they hated, even though they put the squeeze on him, in the end they realized that they took a hit and are at a loss.
Kinda funny that I got the smut from How-Weird that they asked him back, and even offered to hire him as a consultant. Howard of course ad- Da-mently refused.
"Ha-ha," I say. "Time is the best weapon," is a famous Chinese expression, and I do believe that revenge is innate and part of my Cantonese genes.
Cal
