Typical Turbine Engineer

Turbine Engineer are a strange bunch of folks but mostly great to be around and I would trust my life with everyone of them. It is something about the job that makes some very tough and determined individuals. We are always faced with adversity and very stressful situations. When the turbine has a problem everyone is pointing the finger at you and demanding that you get it fixed immediately. So we are all formed into these strange characters that can laugh in the face of death as we have seen worse when working. My old buddies are working all around the world now and in some very strange environments. I have a few buddies from the USA who I have known for a few years and one was working in Iraq along with many other guys, trying to earn a few dollars and keep body and soul together. He just laughed about the extremists and that they had just a small bomb in the switchyard. He is pictured here with an AK47.


He never said if it was his or some soldier. I have another who is working as the project lead for GE and he is working in some remote part of India and by the things he is writing in his Blog ‘Slyght’ he is having a whale of a time and making sure he gets his tax back for being out of the USA for a whole year. I am getting the impression that he is enjoying his time so much that it will be difficult to get him out of the sub-continent. It takes a certain type of engineer to do field work, a little determined, definitely strong of opinion to force through ones views about the job, very outgoing and an ability to mix with anyone and drink and act stupid. This about fits everyone within the GE field engineering group and many ex-GE guys. I am not sure how long you can actually do this job and survive mentally, its about pacing yourself. You cannot go at it like a bull at a gate constantly, you have to have bouts of insanity. Usually where the drink is cheap and nightclubs don’t shut until the last Turbine engineer is thrown out complaining.