Been a few days

It's been a few days since my last post so I figure I'll try and get everyone up to speed. Everything has been going smooth, the lack of work is still frustrating but I'm doing what I can to make sure that it gets seen that I'm not just slacking. I'm still trying to figure out if i could actually live here after school. There are two employment prospects that have caught my eye since I've been here. The first is working Safety up on the North Slope. One of the guys here on department runs with safety for the refineries up near Prudhoe Bay and brings home +- $140 K. The work is two weeks on two weeks off. It would be doing safety, so its something that is actually interesting (to me). The second is the prospect of working for the forestry department and being a smoke jumper. Not to sound arrogant but I've seen some of the people in the department and having a 4 year degree in fire protection it looks like good odds that with some hard work there might be some opportunity for advancement. Working winters in the arctic circle and summers as a smoke jumper could be an extremely physically demanding life style but with the income and some savings right from the start retirement seems feasible.