Part 3 of Carlos Entrena Utrilla’s series on cislunar space is up now.
18 thoughts on “The Cislunar Verticals”
Once we finally start building some lunar settlements, “the Cislunar Verticals” will be a great name for one of their sports teams!
I saw Cislunar Verticals open for Lagrange Rangers at the Whiskey in ’86.
This would be a great place to ask the question: where can one work in this burgeoning space industry if one does not have an engineering degree?
Somebody has to bring the coffee …
Thanks, Eric. Nice to know the engineers are as nice as ever.
And fully living up to their reputation…
You’re welcome 😉
As a Canadian engineer, I’m not particularly welcome in the US-based industry myself. They wouldn’t even let me in the door, never mind serve coffee.
I can’t understand why not. You have an impressive resume (or CV).
Thanks Jon. Quality of a CV doesn’t seem to matter much in this economy. Here in Alberta about 1/4 of the engineers I know are unemployed, and the rest have been taking massive pay cuts. My current contract is at 72% of what I contracted for three years ago, and another company recently offered 65% . Almost all of our work is out of province. I’m starting to think of looking elsewhere, even in the USA. Like him or hate him, I believe Trump is going to energize the US economy while we in Canada have pajama boy putting in a federal carbon tax on top of our new provincial one.
Sorry forgot to mention I talked to a buddy in Houston last week, it’s slow there too. They don’t want people with visas like they used to. And on the aerospace side, far too many job postings require US citizenship.
…assuming that the engineers don’t design a machine to do that!
Well, there’s law.
Thanks, Laura. That’s an area I did not consider.
Business is the field that requires the most people and has the most opportunities. The big question in space is not how to build things, it’s how to make money with them.
Sales. Marketing. Finance. Logistics. Lobbying.
Entrepreneur
Space companies will need the same staff to support their core activities that all companies need – sales, marketing, HR, legal, accountants, etc. Just make a list of all the job roles that any medium to large company needs and you’ll get a list of the non-engineering jobs that will exist in the space industry. Those are your ways in if you can’t do the engineering side.
Once we finally start building some lunar settlements, “the Cislunar Verticals” will be a great name for one of their sports teams!
I saw Cislunar Verticals open for Lagrange Rangers at the Whiskey in ’86.
This would be a great place to ask the question: where can one work in this burgeoning space industry if one does not have an engineering degree?
Somebody has to bring the coffee …
Thanks, Eric. Nice to know the engineers are as nice as ever.
And fully living up to their reputation…
You’re welcome 😉
As a Canadian engineer, I’m not particularly welcome in the US-based industry myself. They wouldn’t even let me in the door, never mind serve coffee.
I can’t understand why not. You have an impressive resume (or CV).
Thanks Jon. Quality of a CV doesn’t seem to matter much in this economy. Here in Alberta about 1/4 of the engineers I know are unemployed, and the rest have been taking massive pay cuts. My current contract is at 72% of what I contracted for three years ago, and another company recently offered 65% . Almost all of our work is out of province. I’m starting to think of looking elsewhere, even in the USA. Like him or hate him, I believe Trump is going to energize the US economy while we in Canada have pajama boy putting in a federal carbon tax on top of our new provincial one.
Sorry forgot to mention I talked to a buddy in Houston last week, it’s slow there too. They don’t want people with visas like they used to. And on the aerospace side, far too many job postings require US citizenship.
…assuming that the engineers don’t design a machine to do that!
Well, there’s law.
Thanks, Laura. That’s an area I did not consider.
Business is the field that requires the most people and has the most opportunities. The big question in space is not how to build things, it’s how to make money with them.
Sales. Marketing. Finance. Logistics. Lobbying.
Entrepreneur
Space companies will need the same staff to support their core activities that all companies need – sales, marketing, HR, legal, accountants, etc. Just make a list of all the job roles that any medium to large company needs and you’ll get a list of the non-engineering jobs that will exist in the space industry. Those are your ways in if you can’t do the engineering side.
Thanks everyone for your input.