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| Inside the Tesla Stamping department (Image found on the internet) |
Yeah, been a long time. Things got weird, sad, happy and all manner of chaotic since the last time I found reason to write.
I work for Tesla (in Fremont, CA) now in the Stamping Department making doors, hoods, fenders, and so on. I am being trained as a Lead, watching over a team of truly awesome people. We're closer as a group than any other co-workers I've ever had. Example you say? Sure. One co-worker refers to me as her older brother. Another asked me to be his daughter's Godfather. Since I am nearly 50 years old, and most are considerably younger, I am often referred to being everyone's Dad. It's that kind of work environment.
And though every day I come home sore, often in pain, fatigued, and exhausted, it's an honest kind of result of genuinely hard work. Not the dull minded fatigue from staring at spreadsheets like I used to get, but real exhaustion. And in a perverse way, I love it. I feel alive.
Plus, I've picked up some amazing skills. I can operate a 45 ton crane. I can operate (and certify others!) a forklift. I can operate a stamping press (a machine the size of an apartment building!) to produce upwards of 2000 parts a day! More impressive (to me at least) than what I used to do with data analysis.
Elsewhere, still rocking the family life. Wife locked into a job she loves. Daughter still going to college. Son still being a bad-ass. And my dog still being a cuddly pup.
I read more books, had more experiences (good and bad), but my schedule keeps me busy working, or simply trying to rest so I haven't done much in the way of hobbies, or attended hardly and Masonic events. I can't promise consistent posts, but I'll try to do better.
Thanks for reading.
-Brent
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
